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Category Archives: Disability

Disability Equality in Education: day of action Wednesday 21 November

Posted on 20 November 2018 by editor120 November 2018

Disability History Month runs 22 November – 22 December 2018. To launch it this year, UCU is holding a day of action for disability equality in education on Wednesday 21 November. See the short introductory video. Full details of the campaign are on the UCU day of action web page. We’re holding a local meeting open to all members and non-members on Wednesday 21 November, 1-2pm in [Michael Sadler seminar room LG16] to watch a 15 minute UCU film and to discuss what’s working at University of Leeds in disability equality, and where more action is needed. Nationally, UCU is hosting a parliamentary briefing for MPs on Wednesday 21 November in the Palace of Westminster, supported by NEU, NASWUT, TUC, UNISON, Unite the Union, ALLFIE and DPAC. If you’d like to support the campaign but can’t attend the meeting, you can join the social media initiative, if possible on the 21 November day of action. Download and take a photograph with UCU’s range of selfie posters or make your own and tweet your support to @UCUequality using the hashtag #IncludeUs (we’d like to get that hashtag trending on Twitter!).  You could tweet ‘I am supporting UCU’s Day of Action for Disabled People because…‘ with your own comment, … continue reading

Posted in Disability, Equality

National unity demonstration against fascism and racism: 17 November 2018

Posted on 12 November 2018 by Alan Smith12 November 2018

UCU is supporting a national demonstration of unity in London on Saturday in response to concerns of increasing racism and xenophobia and the rise of the far right. The demonstration is called by Stand Up To Racism, Unite Against Fascism and Love Music Hate Racism and supported by the TUC. Locally there are coaches going from Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Sheffield and York. Members will be able to claim the coach fare back from UCU regional office (heyorkshire@ucu.org.uk) For details, including all the local coaches, see https://www.facebook.com/events/1887445111550804/ … continue reading

Posted in Black members / BME, Brexit, Disability, Equality, Gender equality, LGBT+, Migrant members, Migration and refugees, Wider campaigning

Dispute information

Posted on 5 December 2019 by Alan Smith5 December 2019

Everything you need to know from from UCU nationally Advice and information about the strikes, including detailed advice for migrant members with a visa Local information Reporting strike action, and guidance on action short of a strike Updated details on the local hardship fund, after members voted to increase the support available at general meeting 3 December (Link to key information posted in advance of the strike, for reference) … continue reading

Posted in Dispute advice

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

Posted on 4 December 2019 by editor14 December 2019

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

Posted in Dispute, Dispute advice, Dispute information

Local Hardship Fund

Posted on 3 December 2019 by Jonathan Saha3 December 2019

At our General Meeting on 3 December we unanimously passed a motion revising the rules for our local Hardship Fund to allow us to provide greater support to members facing financial difficulties due to pay deductions for striking. The local Hardship Fund will work alongside and in addition to the UK-wide Fighting Fund. Members should apply to the Fighting Fund for support initially, except where claiming for days of strike action not covered by the Fighting Fund (day 1 for those earning less than £30,000 gross annually, days 1 and 2 for those earning more than £30,000 gross annually). The local Hardship Fund will the supplement the UK-wide Fighting Fund, or provide support where the UK-wide Fighting Fund cannot. The new rules mean that the Hardship Fund: Will comply with the appended guidance from UCU to ensure continued solvency of the branch, and that the branch is able to continue to meet all its usual commitments for and on behalf of members;Will be managed by local branch officers a panel of at least three elected branch officers, including the Treasurer;Will prioritise members in precarious, low paid work, as per national and local priorities;Will also prioritise members who can demonstrate that … continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Disputes, Hardship Fund

Two responses to the recent Gryphon editorial on our strike

Posted on 3 December 2019 by admin3 December 2019

From the picket lines this week, two committee members offered polite responses to an editorial in the Gryphon newspaper that addressed the causes of the current industrial action. Dr Laura Loyola-Hernández offered a response covering the chief aspect of the aspect: the four fights. Dr Mark Taylor-Batty offered one on the issue of USS. We reproduce them both here. Four fights: A letter to my students On Monday we were meant to learn about feminist decolonial research but instead I will be striking. I would love nothing more than to be teaching you. I did not come to this decision lightly. I haven’t come across anyone striking that is not worried about their students, specially those that are in vulnerable positions. But as we have heard across picket lines nationwide: our working conditions are your learning conditions. I write this as a response to the editorial letter in the latest edition of The Gryphon. I find in the arguments a reflection of wider debates happening on the picket line. Many of the conversations have concentrated around pensions. Yes, we are trying to fight to save our pension scheme but this is only one of two disputes. The second is about FOUR connected … continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged uss

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

Posted on 3 December 2019 by editor12 December 2019

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

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