First meeting 5-6pm Tues 25 January on ZoomWeekly meetings thereafter This post is from an email sent to UCU members on Monday 24 January 2022 by Simon Moore and Xanthe Whittaker from the branch committee. See email for Zoom link. … Read more
The university finally published its climate plan in December 2021, setting out the pathway for it to reach its net zero target by 2030. This will no doubt have many impacts for us as a community of workers at the … Read more
Ben has retired so we need a new equality officer – could it be you? Or one of your colleagues? At the last annual general meeting we agreed Ben Plumpton and Megan Povey would jointly cover the UCU University of … Read more
Wednesday 1 December Thursday 2 December No teach out on Friday 3 December This page was last updated on 30 November 2021
Read moreThe health and safety work of trade unions has been very important in the last year. As your branch Health and Safety Officer, I’ve been working to raise your concerns about the pandemic, improve guidance, inspect buildings and liaise with the other campus unions. … Read more
This post has been edited as the AGM date has been changed from 13 May to 20 May. A reminder that UCU branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be at 3.45pm – 5pm on Thursday 20 May. The meeting will … Read more
Once again, during our forthcoming strike action, Leeds UCU will be running ‘teach outs’ to offer alternative knowledge to our students. These could be presentations, discussions, creative labs, guest speakers, performances or other activities, both in the Quaker Centre and … Read more
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
We may well have another busy period coming up so I want to make sure you all know who your UCU reps are and where there are gaps where we still need reps. The current list is at leedsucu/departmental-representatives. For … Read more
In preparation for the next academic year the UCU committee is looking to fill department rep vacancies, including anti-casualisation reps, postgraduate reps and workload reps, and also for some more members to be trained to support colleagues with individual casework. … Read more