Thank you to everyone who picketed! Some of you are in schools or departments that haven’t elected a UCU department rep, or an anti-casualisation rep, or a postgraduate rep, or a workloads rep, or a health and safety rep. Could … Read more
Leeds UCU members seem to enjoy a sing song, judging by your enthusiastic participation in the songs at our strike rallies! It was great to have our ‘woodwind section’ entertaining us and leading us. We are probably the only UCU … Read more
Note: this post is from 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 UCU advice on action short of a strike has been … Read more
This post is from 2019 and the guidance is not current This post is from 2019 and the guidance is not current Reporting strike action On Thursday 5th December, or on your first day back if you don’t work Thursdays, … Read more
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 … Read more
Full teach out programme is here Disabled people and employment (for day of action on disability equality in education) Jo Ingold with Liz Oliver 1pm – 2pm, Quaker Meeting House The Mathematics of Voting Rob Sturman 1pm – 2pm, Quaker … Read more
Leeds UCU standing firm, picketing in the rain, and then on Friday 29th moving on to support the Youth Climate strikers. Keep it up everyone, 8 days strong! The weather is due to be better next week, sunny but cold, … Read more
Branch equality officer Dima Chami on fighting back against the hostile environment being imposed on migrant workers This page was last updated on 28 November 2019
Read moreFull teach out programme is here Migrant Detention These Walls Must Fall (North West) A talk by migrant support grassroot group. We hope to organise this in collaboration with student societies, for example Leeds STAR, and use it to help … Read more
Text from branch president Ben Plumpton’s email to members 27th November Negotiations The most important thing to tell you is that our UCU negotiators on pay and conditions met with UCEA, the employers organization, on Tuesday. See UCU’s statement about that meeting. … Read more