UCU advice on working in the UK for members who aren’t UK nationals is available through the UCU support centre web pages. As well as general advice explaining terms and processes, individual legal advice is available for members through the … Read more
We’re making some updates to the website during August so there may be some temporary faults and mismatches. If there is any content you can’t access, or if you spot any problems which are still there in September, please email … Read more
Members elected to the UCU committee for the 2017-2018 academic year are in post from today. The committee members for this year are: Elected committee officers President: Vicky Blake Vice-president: Tim Goodall Treasurer: Nigel Bubb Honorary secretary: Brendon Nicholls Recruitment … Read more
Leeds UCU committee is concerned that university management have taken down many posters about our statutes dispute from all over the campus – even from individual office doors and official union noticeboards. It’s important that members and non-members continue to … Read more
UCU members at the University of Leeds are taking industrial action as part of a dispute with senior management about changes to the university statutes, in effect an imposed change to their contracts. We took strike action on 22 June … Read more
UCU has produced an online email-your-MP page for the University of Leeds statutes dispute, to make it easier to write to your MP. It’s at: ucu.org.uk/contactyourLeedsMP You can customise the letter to highlight your own concerns. If you could visit … Read more
We’re suggesting members contact their Members of Parliament, either by email, letter or by going along to a one of the MP’s surgeries (which will be advertised on their websites). It can be daunting to start from scratch with such … Read more
We were delighted by the support from members (we picketed all 17 university entrances) and from the prospective students and parents attending the Open Day. It would have been hard for any visitor to the Open Day not to notice … Read more
Some good coverage of our strike on 22 June: BBC news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-40366011 Yorkshire Post: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/university-of-leeds-staff-walk-out-over-employment-rules-row-1-8611326 Yorkshire evening post: http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/education/university-of-leeds-staff-to-strike-over-changes-to-employment-rules-1-8606614 Do sign our petition if you haven’t already: http://speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/university-of-leeds-statutes-no-sackers-charter/ This page was last updated on 1 August 2017
Read moreWhenever the security of academic jobs is at stake the elephant in the room is academic freedom. For the 22 June strike day we hid elephants in rooms across the campus, with a chocolate prize for anyone who found one … Read more