University of Leeds UCU

After months of joint working between UCU and University of Leeds, a new Fixed Term Policy has been agreed.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ucu/documents/ftcpolicyfinal.doc

Discussions regarding implementation of the new policy will continue.

The ballot for National UCU postions of office are currently open and will close on Thursday 1st March.

The candidates for the various posts are listed here:http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5781. 

There are a number of local candidates who you may wish to consider supporting. We have been asked to publicise some election addresses which can be found on the page entitled National Elections 2012 listed on the right of this home page. 

Ballot material was dispatched by second class post on Monday 6 February. This can take a few days to arrive. If you have not received the ballot material by Tuesday 14 February you should contact the union, email kmetcalfe@ucu.org.uk, providing full name, membership number, branch, and the full postal address at which the ballot paper should have been received.

 A national meeting of USS Reps from pre-92 universities has voted to suspend the current industrial action.  This follows agreement from the employers to a joint review of both the imposed CARE scheme and their unilateral decision to abolish the right to an unreduced pension if aged 55 and above.  The employers also agreed to extend the right to an unreduced pension on redundancy by a further year to allow the review to conclude: http://defenduss.web.ucu.org.uk/2012/uss-dispute-update/

The next General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 22^nd February at 1pm In Roger Stevens LT01. Papers can be downloaded using the following links:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ucu/documents/minutes17jan12.doc

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ucu/documents/agenda22feb12.doc

You can help us grow today by emailing your colleagues and asking them to join. As the attack on our pensions shows, staff in our colleges and universities have never needed their union more. We are a growing union, a campaigning union and a successful union. Every year, around 7,000 members seek help for a problem at work from their local UCU branch. We manage to resolve most of these issues but where we cannot the union’s legal service is there to gain redress. In the past 12 months that redress has amounted to more than £2m in settlements for members treated unfairly at work. We are campaigning hard to defend pensions, jobs and to hold back the privatisation of our education system. The more members we have, the stronger and more successful UCU will be.

Circulate this flyer: http://www.ucu.org.uk/media/pdf/g/o/general_rec_flyer.pdf and encourage them to join online using this link: http://join.web.ucu.org.uk/rac