Text from branch president Ben Plumpton’s email to members You’ll have seen today’s email to [Allstaff] about the pay offer. In case the mention of 3.65% rises had you feeling hopeful, note that this was only for scale points 2 … Read more
If you’re angry about the prorogation of Parliament, you can join the upcoming protests in Leeds: This evening, from 5:30pm at City Square organised by Leeds for Europe https://www.facebook.com/events/2371865616404873/ Saturday at 11am, Leeds Town Hall, organised by Alex Sobel MP, … Read more
Text from branch president Ben Plumpton’s email to members If you pay into a USS pension you will have received an email today from the university’s pensions manager, informing you that your pension contribution will increase to 9.6% of your … Read more
From email to members from branch president Ben Plumpton Employers have voted (22 August) to increase our USS pension contributions from 8.8% of salary now (8% until recently) to 9.6% in October and 11% next October. They have rejected the … Read more
If you are a member of the USS pension scheme, whether you are a UCU member or not, you need to know what’s going on with the renewed dispute over USS. Here we want to challenge some of the employers’ … Read more
For legal reasons UCU isn’t allowed to ballot members over strike action who wouldn’t normally be working during for the potential period of action (roughly November to May – let us know if you need an exact date). If you’ll … Read more
If you know you’ll have left the University of Leeds before the end of the strike ballot, 30 October, please email ucu@leeds.ac.uk to let us know. It’s important, both legally and for union democracy, that you aren’t balloted here if … Read more
Email sent to all members from Vicky Blake, 1 August 2019 Dear Members, I am writing to say thank you for having me! Thank you for electing me as president of Leeds UCU for the past two years, and thank … Read more