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
Some emails sent from Hotmail accounts are being wrongly redirected to the Junk folder of the branch’s University of Leeds email address (ucu@leeds.ac.uk). Similarly, emails from Hotmail accounts are being rejected (more usefully with a notification) from emails send to … 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
UCU has now called a boycott of the University of Liverpool over the university’s refusal to halt the sacking of 21 health staff. Liverpool UCU have taken strike action, and are now doing a marking boycott. Liverpool management are deducting … Read more
You’ll have seen publicity about “The Big Leeds Conversation” in recent emails from Internal Comms and the Vice Chancellor. It’s a kind of crowd-sourcing of university values and behaviours which all staff and students are being asked to participate in, … Read more
The full minutes of the meeting will be emailed to members and a copy will be available from the honorary secretary or branch administrator. Members agreed the following motions. Motion 1: Defend the right to a private life and academic … Read more