Defend Education for the 99%
I have been an academic related member of staff (administrative) at Leeds University for 19 years. I am a departmental rep in Psychology and am a caseworker for Leeds UCU and have served as an …
NEC Elections, Vote Regine Pilling, Casually Employed Members (FE)
Stamp out Casual Contracts
I am a 24 year old hourly paid lecturer at Westminster Kingsway College and have been teaching for three years, mainly in Additional Learning Support and A Level Sociology. I joined UCU and the branch encouraged …
Vote Veronica Killen, NEC, North East Seat (HE)
Resist Privatisation and Marketisation
Higher education should be publicly funded, publicly owned, accessible to everyone and free at the point of use.
The university is a place where minds are developed through freedom of speech, subject choice and respect for …
NEC Elections, Vote Graham Mustin – North East (FE)
Build the resistance, Defend education
I have been an active member of NATFHE and UCU since joining the profession in 1981. I am currently joint branch secretary of Barnsley College UCU. I have represented the branch at UCU congress and …
NEC Elections: Vote Gavin Reid for North East (HE)
The Government has embarked on a savage process of privatising our universities. The scandals that have rocked the American for-profit sector, one that spends more on advertising than it does on staff, appear only to spur Willetts on in his …
Model motion in support of the NEC
Please find below a model motion in support of the NEC’s recent decision – this can be downloaded along with other materials including flyers arguing the NEC position on the pensions dispute from here.
Branch/regional motion on NEC
…Vote Umit Yildiz for UK elected member, Further Education
Defend pensions and jobs, Fight for equality
I have been working in Further Education at Bradford College since 2001, and have been a member of NATFHE/UCU from the day I started there. I am a member of the union’s national …
Vote Elizabeth Lawrence, NEC elections, HE Member for North East
Defend Education and Academic Freedom
We must defend academic freedom and reclaim universities as institutions of learning, where the pursuit of education not profitability is the driver. UCU should defend collegiality and democracy in university governance. We must promote real …
NEC Elections: Vote Alan Whitaker for Trustee
I joined NATFHE as soon as I started working in FE sector in 1987. I held several positions on the branch committee, including chair and treasurer. I became a delegate to NATFHE’s Southern Regional Council in 1989, and was chair …
Still work longer, Still pay more, Still get less.
The governments ‘Heads of Agreement’ offer has been discussed at length, with UCU left giving it’s response to it, and the way in which it has been handled by the General Secretary.
The NUT who have given a very …