Members of the UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) met online for a half-day meeting to discuss the union’s position towards the two disputes, including the Four Fights offer.
HEC voted:
- To support the Day of Action on 1 June called
Democracy Congress – Two steps forward, one step back?
Saturday’s Democracy Congress saw a mobilisation by the right-wing ‘Independent Broad Left’ (IBL) to block rule changes proposed by the UCU’s Democracy Commission intended to improve accountability of the union’s leadership.
The Democracy Commission – and this Congress – were …
HE Strike Bulletin #1
Take back the university – Unite and Fight
UCU members have achieved something many thought impossible. We bust through the Tory anti-union threshold of 50% turnout in sixty universities. Activists have breathed new life into the …
Reballots needed now!
The strikes in the 60 universities which got over the 50 percent ballot threshold will undoubtedly win enthusiastic support. Those of us who didn’t quite get over that high bar are keen to join our colleagues, to help strengthen our …
The fight is on
Build the HE strikes: organise to win
UCU has called eight days of strike action over Higher Education pay and USS pensions before Christmas, one full week: 25-29 November, culminating with the next school student climate strike day #29November, …
We won the vote – Now let’s start the action
The ballot results are in. UCU members throughout Higher Education are ready to fight to defend their pay and pensions, and to stand up against inequality, unmanageable workloads and casualisation.
On pay, 73% of members voted yes to strike action, …
The Fight Of Our Lives – Round 2
The Augar report
The disastrous HE tuition fee market experiment of 2011 is unravelling.
The much-trailed Tory-commissioned review into HE funding, the Augar Report, is proposing cuts in tuition fees to £7,500 but a much harder ‘hit’ on students: …
Kill off DC – and fight for more
Dear colleague
It is Monday evening after Day 10 of our strike. UCU Left HEC members are quite rightly being bombarded with texts, emails and tweets calling for #NoCapitulation.
UCU has two tasks: to kill off 100% Defined Contribution (DC) …