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Category Archives: Equality

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Negotiated offers agreed by UCU members

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 10 June 2022 by Alan Smith10 June 2022

The following offers were negotiated between UCU and University of Leeds senior management. UCU members voted to end the marking and assessment boycott and accept these offers. This local action is in support of the ongoing national dispute. Joint Statement … Read more

Posted in Anticasualisation, Black members / BME, Branch policy, Consultations and negotiations, Disability, Dispute, Dispute policy, Equality, Featured, Gender pay gap, Opposing privatisation, Pay, Pensions, Postgraduate, Workload

Policy decision: Extending ASOS and EDI strategies

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 9 March 2022 by Alan Smith31 March 2022

This motion was agreed by the branch at a general meeting 8 March 2022 This branch notes that: members have been partaking in sustained ASOS and branch advice on ASOS has so far encompassed “working to contract; not covering for … Read more

Posted in Branch policy, Dispute policy, Equality

Policy decision: motion 1, 8 March 2022

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 9 March 2022 by Alan Smith31 March 2022

This motion was agreed by the branch at a general meeting 8 March 2022 This branch notes: That the University’s Fairer Future for All campaign was launched a week before our industrial action ballot opened in October 2021; That the … Read more

Posted in Anticasualisation, Black members / BME, Branch policy, Gender pay gap, Pay, Workload

A UCU conversation with the vice chancellor

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 18 February 2022 by Alan Smith18 February 2022

Full transcript Vice Chancellor Simone Buitendijk: We’re going into 10 days of strike action and yeah I must say I’m a bit sad about it. Leeds UCU: Of course, nobody is happy to have to participate in industrial action. Colleagues … Read more

Posted in Anticasualisation, Black members / BME, Disability, Dispute, Equality, Featured, Gender equality, Gender pay gap, Pay, Pensions, Workload

Policy decision: motion 2, 25 January 2022

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 26 January 2022 by Alan Smith31 March 2022

This motion was agreed by the branch at a general meeting 25 January 2022 We face a growing racist offensive by Boris Johnson’s government with the Nationality & Borders bill attacking the right to asylum and the government’s CRED report … Read more

Posted in Affiliation/subscription/finance, Antisemitism, Black members / BME, Branch policy, Islamophobia, Migration and refugees, Religion and belief

Policy decision: Academic Freedom and the Sacking of Professor David Miller

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 25 January 2022 by Alan Smith31 March 2022

This motion was agreed by the branch at a general meeting 25 January 2022 Leeds UCU notes that: Bristol university has sacked UCU member, Professor David Miller; David Miller’s work is critical of Israel; Bristol University, under external political pressure, … Read more

Posted in Antisemitism, Solidarity

Policy decision: motion for sustained and sustainable industrial action

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 15 January 2022 by Alan Smith31 March 2022

This motion was agreed by the branch at an extra-ordinary general meeting 14 January 2022 This branch notes that: Our branch has a strong mandate for industrial action relating to the USS dispute and the ‘Four Fights’ we had an … Read more

Posted in Anticasualisation, Branch policy, Dispute policy, Gender pay gap, Pay, Pensions, Workload

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

Extraordinary general meeting 14 January 1pm

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 10 December 2021 by Alan Smith5 January 2022

You will have seen in an email from UCU general secretary Jo Grady this week that further decisions as to the progression and escalation of our industrial action will be taken in a meeting of UCU’s higher education committee (HEC) … Read more

Posted in Anticasualisation, Black members / BME, Branch, Equality, Featured, Gender equality, Gender pay gap, General Meetings, Pay, Pensions, Workload

Dismissed at Leeds for not doing enough research?

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 30 November 2021 by Alan Smith30 November 2021

Message sent to Leeds UCU members 30th November 2021 This coming week, for the first time in the history of our University, one of us is going to be dismissed on the basis of not doing enough research. Read that … Read more

Posted in Black members / BME, Conduct and disciplinary, Covid19, Featured

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

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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:

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      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

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      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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