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Reporting strike action, and guidance on Action Short of a Strike

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Reporting strike action On Thursday 5th December, or on your first day back if you don’t work Thursdays, you should report that you took strike action, via ESS or by email to industrialaction@leeds.ac.uk, as set out in the email from HR on 18th November. You should also report that you are taking ASOS. If you are on a visa, it’s extra important that you are recorded as having been on strike, otherwise it could count as unauthorised absence which could affect your visa – you might like to report by email and ask for confirmation that your report has been recorded. Guidance on ASOS We will be doing the ASOS which was set out in the voting papers for the ballot, and which you voted overwhelmingly for. We are asking you to: work to contractnot cover for absent colleaguesnot reschedule lectures or classes cancelled due to strike actionnot undertake any voluntary activities Your committee, with the help of the packed General Meeting on 3 December, has put together the a document containing local ASOS guidance, available here: www.leedsucu.org.uk/asos-guidance-from-leeds-ucu/ Also see the national FAQ at www.ucu.org.uk/he-action-faqs Note in particular that our university management have softened their approach compared to 2018 – … continue reading

What’s on at today’s Teach Out – Tuesday 3 December

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Full teach out programme is here Strike Data Hack Workshop Helen Thornham, Chris Birchall, Joanne Armitage This is a practical data hack workshop where we will scrape, analyse and visualise the data and discourses of the strike. ideally would run as 2 or 3 50 minute slots – or as an additional event.No experience necessary! Just bring a laptop and your extension cable to make sure the battery doesn’t run out! We will teach some basics to scraping and coding, data visualisations and analysis and critically interrogate how the strike actions and pension dispute have been presented. Perhaps we could look at the language used across national media, the statistics used to defend positions, or the longer data histories of the pension dispute. We could look at university policy documents, VC letters across universities, or union publicity for example. 1pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House Jews in the Medieval Imaginary Eva Frojmovic 1pm – 3pm, Leeds Central Library, Art Library The state of PGTAs at Leeds: discussion and fact-finding UCU committee 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House Fleabag: Sex, Confession, and the Camera Carl White 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House Strike pay surgery UCU committee 1 pm onwards, Quaker … continue reading

What’s on at today’s Teach Out – Monday 2 December

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Full teach out programme is here Disabled people and employment (for day of action on disability equality in education) Jo Ingold with Liz Oliver 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House The Mathematics of Voting Rob Sturman 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House (upstairs room) Healthcare and the Pharmaceutical Industry: What Is To Be Done? Dan Howdon 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House (upstairs room) Student mental health and the role of academics – an open conversation Rachel Muers 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House Opportunity for conversation between academics and students about academics’ role in relation to student mental health problems. This is a discussion & sharing of ideas facilitated by a non-specialist.   Building a coalition for climate action @Leeds Gabriella Alberti 2pm – 3pm, Fenton pub How do we do action short of a strike? UCU Researchers @Leeds Drasko Kascelan 3pm – 4pm, Fenton pub Training Sawbones: A (slightly) ghastly history of teaching doctors in Leeds Guided walk around Leeds. Meet in the Grand Arcade’s exit to Vicar Lane, LS1 6PG. We’ll finish near the LGI. Polina Merkulova 1pm – 3pm. How did people become doctors in Leeds? Why were some students expelled?Who were the teachers? Who and how … continue reading

What’s on at today’s Teach Out? Thursday 28 November

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Full teach out programme is here Migrant Detention These Walls Must Fall (North West) A talk by migrant support grassroot group. We hope to organise this in collaboration with student societies, for example Leeds STAR, and use it to help kick-start activism against immigration detention by students and staff Lauren Cape-Davenhill 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House Decolonising the University: A Jewish perspective Joshua Alston 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House Short workshop aimed at how we can decolonise the university and what Jewishness can bring to the discussion. No knowledge of Judaism or academic decolonisation required. The medieval mediterranean, race, and religion Jonathan Jarret, Francesca Petrizzo, Eva Frojmovic 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House Migration control and crises in the neoliberal economy Richard Cleminson, Deirdre Conlon, Glenda Garelli, Louise Waite 2pm – 3pm, Quaker Meeting House Short conference style presentations: ‘migration, crises, and European borders’, ‘UK/US immigration detention economies’, ‘the case of modern slavery in the neoliberal economy: migrant ‘illegality’ and exploitative work’; “Black Lisbon”: Anarchism, Anti-colonialism and the Portuguese-speaking world (1920-1940); followed by open discussion.   Introduction to Permaculture A design science for sustainable livelihoods. a.k.a. Revolution disguised as organic gardening. Alexander (Sandy) James 3pm – 4pm. Max 12 … continue reading