This post reproduces the email sent to all members Friday 2 March by branch president Vicky Blake. Dear Members, Strike Up Your Life going VIRAL! Before you do anything else, watch our branch’s (increasingly viral!) music video for “Strike Up Your … Read more
University of Leeds management looks increasingly isolated in making its threat to dock 25% pay for every day staff refuse to reschedule classes lost to strike action, having already docked those days’ pay. It has been widely noted that in the … Read more
The British Dental Association sent a message of support to UCU over the pension strikes. Staff in the School of Dentistry have joint membership arrangement with UCU and the BDA. (See The BDA statement says: The British Dental Association (BDA) … Read more
The Engineering Professors Council has issued a statement on the USS pensions dispute, saying: “Universities should try to maintain the conditions of employment under which academics were originally employed. That includes pensions.” The full statement is below: As the EPC … Read more
Open Letter to the University of Leeds Management Sent on 21 February to the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vic-Chancellor, Head of Human Resources and Head of Finance. The response from the Vice-Chancellor is copied below. The undersigned, all professorial staff at the … Read more
UCU University of Leeds branch all sorts of picketing awesomeness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvQsx-hPDe0 This page was last updated on 1 March 2018
Read moreUCU has called on the University of Leeds senior management to drop their punitive, divisive and escalatory plan to deduct 25% from wages for refusing to reschedule lectures or classes, or to cover the work of absent colleagues as industrial … Read more
This post reproduces the text of an email to all members from the Uni of Leeds UCU President on 28/2/2018 Dear Members, Thank you Once again, you are amazing. It is an incredible feeling to walk round visiting bumper numbers … Read more