You’ll have seen publicity about “The Big Leeds Conversation” in recent emails from Internal Comms and the Vice Chancellor. It’s a kind of crowd-sourcing of university values and behaviours which all staff and students are being asked to participate in, … Read more
The full minutes of the meeting will be emailed to members and a copy will be available from the honorary secretary or branch administrator. Members agreed the following motions. Motion 1: Defend the right to a private life and academic … Read more
Members passed the following motions at today’s extraordinary general meeting. The meeting was called to discuss motions on Palestine and Israel, after a late motion couldn’t be heard at the annual general meeting, and to discuss donations to branches on … Read more
Extraordinary general meeting: Palestine + branch strike donations We have an extraordinary general meeting on Thursday 17 June, 1pm – 2pm, to discuss two items. An emergency motion was submitted to the annual general meeting about the situation in Palestine … Read more
The full approved minutes were emailed to members and a copy is available from the honorary secretary or branch administrator. Agreed to suspend standing order to reduce speaking time to 3 minutes for movers of motions and 2 minutes for … Read more
UCU members have elected/appointed the branch committee for 1 August 2021 until 31 July 2022. President Chloe Wallace Vice-president Aisha Walker Immediate past president Ben Plumpton Treasurer Alaric Hall Honorary secretary Tim Goodall Membership officer Jane Holgate Equality officer Temporary … Read more
From email sent to branch members 6 May 2021 Dear members I expect you’ve heard about the Governments latest plans to decimate arts provision in Higher Education – see for example https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/06/plans-for-50-funding-cut-to-arts-subjects-at-universities-catastrophic A 50% cut to arts funding would be disastrous … Read more
The branch annual general meeting will now be Thursday 20 May 2021, same time 3.45pm – 5pm. (Postponed from Thursday 13 May.) That means the deadline for standing for the branch committee is now the end of Wednesday 19 May. … Read more
Members met on 10 March and made the following decisions as a branch. The full approved minutes were emailed to members and a copy is available from the honorary secretary or branch administrator. Rule change motion for UCU Congress 2021: … Read more
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