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Category Archives: Getting involved

Strike tactics working group

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 24 January 2022 by Alan Smith25 January 2022

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

Posted in Dispute, Getting involved, Members emails

Your views on the university climate plan

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 15 January 2022 by Alan Smith15 January 2022

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

Posted in climate and ecological emergency, Featured, Getting involved, Members emails

UCU equality officer vacancy

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 5 January 2022 by Alan Smith5 January 2022

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

Posted in Elections, Equality, Featured, Getting involved

Leeds UCU Teach Out programme December 2021

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 29 November 2021 by Alan Smith30 November 2021

Wednesday 1 December Thursday 2 December No teach out on Friday 3 December This page was last updated on 30 November 2021

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Posted in Getting involved

Get involved with UCU Health and Safety!

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 20 April 2021 by Alan Smith20 April 2021

The 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

Posted in Branch, Featured, Getting involved, Health and safety

UCU branch AGM

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 20 April 2021 by Alan Smith28 April 2021

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

Posted in Administration, Branch, Elections, Featured, General Meetings, Getting involved, Members emails, UCU democracy

Striking Insights – call for teach outs

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 12 February 2020 by Alan Smith12 February 2020

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

Posted in Dispute, Getting involved, Members emails

Do you have design skills?

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 6 February 2020 by Alan Smith6 February 2020

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

Posted in Administration, Branch, Getting involved, Members emails

Who your reps are and where we still need reps

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 31 January 2020 by Alan Smith3 February 2020

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

Posted in Getting involved

Who should be the UCU department rep / UCU anti-casualisation rep / UCU postgrad rep where you work?

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 18 July 2019 by Alan Smith23 September 2019

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

Posted in Getting involved
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The branch office is currently closed because of the covid-19 pandemic. Please use email if possible.

ucu@leeds.ac.uk

Emails will be received by the branch administrator/organiser and some of the elected branch officers.

Phone 35904 (external: 0113 343 5904) (please use email if possible while the office is closed)

Post: UCU, Room 7.51, EC Stoner Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT. (The office is currently closed – if you need to physically post something please contact us by email or phone to discuss.)

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    • Joining the unionJoining Leeds UCU All academic and academic-related staff of the University of Leeds, permanent or fixed-term, are eligible to join Leeds UCU. This includes students studying to teach in further education who are eligible for free membership. For further information contact the Leeds UCU Office. The quickest, easiest and safest way of joining is online via the UCU website http://joinonline.ucu.org.uk/. Subscriptions The subscription is payable monthly, quarterly or annually by direct debit, and is made up of anational subscription and local subscription, both on a sliding scale. This table shows the main national and local rates:   Employment income: Current monthly subscription for full UCU members National Leeds TOTAL Code £40,000 and over £17.99 £2.40 £20.39 F1 £30,000 – £39,999 £16.36 £2.40 £18.76 F2 £20,000 – £29,999 £15.43 £2.40 £17.83 F3 £10,000 – £19,999 £9.41 £1.20 £10.61 F4 £5,000 – £9,999 £4.26 £0.60 £4.86 F5 Below £5,000 £2.43 £0.60 £3.03 F6 Tax relief Members are entitled to tax releif on 67% of their National Subscription. See further details by following this link Further Information For further information please contact the UCU Office.
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    • Committee members 2021-2022UCU members at the University of Leeds elect a committee to run union affairs in between the all-member general meetings. (General meetings of all members are the primary decision making mechanism locally, committee meetings are the secondary one.) Election is for one year from 1 August. The committee can appoint up to four additional committee members. Committee members elected for the academic year 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2019 are:

      Committee officers

      President: Vicky Blake Vice-president: Tim Goodall Treasurer: Nigel Bubb Honorary secretary: Jonathan Saha Membership officer: Ben Plumpton Equality officer: Dima Barakat Chami Campaigns officer: Lesley McGorrigan Health and safety officer: Neil Maughan Anti-casualisation officer: Cat Oakley

      Committee members

      Gabriella Alberti George Ellison Alaric Hall Hugh Hubbard Laura Loyola-Hernandez Lata Narayanaswamy Brendan Nicholls Malcolm Povey Alan Roe Andi Rylands Paul Steenson Mark Taylor-Batty Peter Tennant Mark Walkley Chloe Wallace Rachel Walls Andy West Kelli Zezulka
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