UCU is balloting over strike action on USS pensions and on pay, casualisation, workloads and equality (‘four fights’). Branch president Chloe Wallace is asking members to check your account details ready for a postal ballot at home, and to prepare … Read more
The UCU committee has joined the university LGBT+ staff network in writing a joint letter to the vice chancellor asking her to rectify the current discriminatory situation for trans staff and students at the University of Leeds. The UCU committee … Read more
Email to members Friday 30 July 2021 This is your final email from me as Leeds UCU President. Chloe Wallace will be your brilliant new President from 1st August! I wanted to update you on a number of things. Health … Read more
This is advance notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the branch to consider a single issue – our disputes over Four Fights (“pay and related matters” i.e. pay, casualisation, workload and equality) and USS pensions – and in … Read more
Email to branch members 28 June 2021 A quick email to update you on some local things at University of Leeds. Promotions The promotion process has been frozen for some time, and we have been pressing for it to be … Read more
The University has undertaken a series of ‘town hall’ meetings on the matter of the pension, and the VC is currently going around Schools to discuss the matter in smaller groups. We offer here some bite-sized notes, from questions that … Read more
For too long women, transgender, gender non-binary people and children have faced the threat of male violence and have been subjected to this violence to a sickeningly disproportionate degree. The horrifying kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard and the appalling … Read more
This blog post is not intended and cannot be taken as financial advice. An individual should seek independent financial advice based on their own circumstances and objectives. One of the concerns that faces the USS pension is the number of … Read more
Following pressure from UCU, Unite, Unison, and the LGBT+ staff network and LUU students’ LGBT+ society, University of Leeds senior management have announced that the detrimental draft new Trans Equality Policy will be withdrawn. (For background see Unions oppose detrimental … Read more
Staff unions UCU, Unison and Unite, alongside the LGBT+ staff network and LUU students’ LGBT+ society have jointly written to University of Leeds management asking them to withdraw the draft replacement for the 2017 Trans Equality Policy. UCU, with Unison … Read more