The UCU’s Higher Education Committee met on Friday 27 September to decide on next steps in the 2024 national pay and related claim.
We have reached the end of a series of formal negotiations over pay and pay-related elements. Most …
Escalate the action to win
An injury to one…
FIGHT TO DEFEND OUR SECTOR – DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO STRIKE
The Employers are trying to break our union.
That is what the threat of pay docking for lecture-rescheduling ASOS means.
We face a simple choice …
HEC REPORT 30TH April 2021
HEC discussion focused on negotiations on pay campaigns and pensions. Whilst confidentiality prevents much discussion, it is possible to say the following.
Pay
On pay the 0% non-offer in 2020-21 has been repeatedly rejected by UCU members in electronic ballots …
Open letter – Covid-19 demands a rethink of Higher Education funding
End tuition fees and market competition
This open letter was launched 31 March 2020 for immediate publication on the HE Convention website. You can add your name on this Google Form.
Covid-19 is a wake-up call for the …
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: …
Get organised to Get the Vote Out
Build the ballot over pay, equality, workload and casualisation
UCU has called a five-week ballot for industrial action over pay this term. It opens on Tuesday 15 January and closes on Friday 22 February. …
Government defeated over the HE Bill at the first Committee stage
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The Government has been forced on the back foot after the Lords pushed through an amendment to the HE Bill which reaffirms what universities are for.
This is an important amendment, because it …
Organising against the HE Bill – what is at stake, and what you can do
Introduction – the Willets Plan
The Tory Government is pushing ahead with its attempt to privatise Higher Education using tuition fees as a mechanism.
The Higher Education and Research Bill 2016-17 (“HE Bill” for short) is a key piece in …
Jez he did!
Jeremy Corbyn’s stunning victory in the Labour leadership election will change the face of politics in Britain. His campaign focused the angry anti-Tory, anti-austerity feelings shared by millions.
In the article below Sean Vernell assesses the significance of the victory.…