An emergency meeting of the branch was help today to establish the branch’s position on the employers’ offer on casualisation, equal pay, workloads and pay (the ‘four fights’ dispute) and on the latest developments in the USS pensions dispute. The … Read more
Email sent to branch members 20 May 2020 I’m writing with some further information about the two disputes – the reports from the UCU negotiating teams. Please read these if you possibly can before our emergency general meeting 1pm Friday … Read more
As members will be aware, the university is proposing to introduce a new policy on audio-video recording (lecture capture) and has consulted UCU on its contents. Many thanks to those members who responded to our request for feedback: you can … Read more
Formatting of the documents including numbering has been affected by transferring to the website and there may be other inaccuracies. For speed, because of the urgency of the consultation, we are getting the text up here rather than trying to … Read more
Summary of informal member feedback on the senior management proposed changes to the lecture capture policy The general policy on recording and the loss of the automatic right to opt out Significant unease about new point 6: using lecture capture … Read more
Members agreed the following motion at the emergency general meeting on 12 May and the annual general meeting 14 May 2020 in response to the changes to the University of Leeds policy on recording of lectures. See also the detailed … Read more
This is the detailed response sent from the branch to University of Leeds senior management at the start of the consultation on the proposed changes by management to the agreed lecture capture policy. (See also the motion passed by the … Read more
In the event of difference between the web version and the minutes agreed at the branch general meeting 14 May, the latter is the correct version. (Formatting is the most likely difference.) General meeting Tuesday 28 April 2020, 1pm – … Read more
The branch officers have decided to hold an online Emergency General Meeting about the proposed new lecture capture policy next Tuesday 12 May, 1pm – 2pm. We’ll send out details for how to join the meeting nearer the time. The … Read more