USS: Keep Up the Pressure
Don’t give the JEP wriggle-room to impose cuts. Don’t let UCU leaders grab defeat from the jaws of victory
Today’s Special Higher Education Sector Conference represents a watershed moment …
USS: Keep Up the Pressure
The vote is YES: Unite to Defend USS
Members know they have to fight to defend their pensions. But despite the weakness of the UUK offer, the hope that the Independent Expert Panel might sort out the valuation and reduce the ‘deficit’ swayed most members …
UCU: A Unity Statement for Democracy
UCU: A Unity Statement for Democracy
Dear colleague
The UCU e-ballot over the UUK offer that closed on Friday (13 April), the nature of the offer and the manner in which members were balloted, all expose a deep democratic deficit
Now vote No and continue the fight – #RejectUUKDeal
Branches wanted ‘Revise and Resubmit’, but HEC votes to put the UUK deal to members.
Now vote No and continue the fight. #RejectUUKDeal
Download leaflet here
HEC has voted to move to immediately ballot members on the UUK proposals. All …
USS: Now we’re talking! Time to fight for #NoDetriment
By Sean Wallis – vice president, UCL UCU and UCU NEC member
Dear colleagues
We are on the brink of what may turn out to be an historic victory in USS.
We have come a long way from 100% DC …
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) …
Unite to Defend Education!
Scrap fees — Education should be for all who can benefit
Support the Pension and Pay strikes
The Tories’ announcement on 19 November that they were looking into Higher Education funding is an admission that their policy of overpriced undergraduate …
Pamphlet – Defending USS pensions
Defending pensions – a fight for all our futures
IntroductionPDF
Our pensions are being put at risk by a process of dishonesty and theft. This is being conducted by a poisonous combination of hard-nosed employers, a zombie government bent …
Pay and Pensions: the fight of our lives
Defending Pay and Pensions – Report from HEC, 13 October
UCU Higher Education Committee met on 13th October. Two key issues occupied the main discussion: pay and the future of the USS pension scheme.
HEC voted formally to call a …
USS crisis explained
In this video, Dr Carlo Morelli (Dundee University) explains what is happening to USS.
Is the ‘deficit’ real or a myth? What is at stake?…