Leeds UCU needs someone with good design skills to make our local leaflets, stickers and posters more attractive and engaging, both immediately for the forthcoming strikes and more long term too for general resources. Could this be you? Contact ucu@leeds.ac.uk … Read more
Do you want to propose a union policy or strategy? UCU is a democratic union, we make our policies together through branch-level general meetings and then nationally at the annual Congress. Our next general meeting on 13 March will be … Read more
Members meeting on 10 December passed 8 motions deciding branch strategy, policy and decisions: Motion 3: USS pensions Motion 4: Motion of no confidence in University of Leeds Council USS decisions Motion 5: Supporting Vicky Blake’s Candidacy for UCU Vice … Read more
We still need a postgraduate rep on the UCU committee for this academic year. Could it be you, or a colleague? The UCU University of Leeds branch committee makes decisions on behalf of the branch in between the general meetings … Read more
Arumina Bhattacharya has been elected (unopposed) as the branch anti-casualisation officer. The full list of members elected to the committee this year is at leedsucu.org.uk/about-us/committee-members-2018-2019 The list of department reps, including department anti casualisation, workload, postgraduate and health and safety reps … Read more
A reminder that the deadline for motions to the next ordinary general meeting is 12pm Tuesday 20 November.The meeting is 1pm Monday 10 December on Roger Stevens lecture theatre 11.Room information In some circumstances the chair of the general meeting may … Read more
There may be formatting errors in online versions of minutes because of complex embedded list formatting Friday 19 October 2018, 12pm – 1pmMichael Sadler building LG15 Minutes of EGM 12 June 2018 Item not taken (out of time) 2. Pay … Read more
This is formal notice of the ordinary general meetings for UCU members scheduled for this year, including the annual general meeting. There are likely to be additional emergency/extraordinary general meetings called by members/committee/officers. Friday 19 October, 12pm – 1pm The … Read more
Let’s capture this energy and strength and take it back to our offices. When we’ve won this dispute (and we will win), let’s create a network of UCU reps across the university so we can supercharge our campaigns for secure … Read more
1. Next steps on Statutes, including discussion of academic censure and boycott. Including: 1.1. Motion on the continuance of our dispute with the university (link) 2. Motion: adoption of modified UCU model local rules (link) 3. Motion: donation to UCU University … Read more