Following members’ vote for industrial action, three strike days have been called for December 2021: Wednesday 1 December Thursday 2 December Friday 3 December More on the UCU national website at https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11872/Universities-to-be-hit-with-three-days-of-strikes-in-December More details to follow. This page was last … Read more
The motion was agreed at the general meeting Tuesday 9 November 2021 A. Leeds Uni UCU notes The excellent votes for action in ballots. The new strategy proposed by the General Secretary in her address and email on Friday 5 … Read more
One of our ‘Four Fights’ is about inequality. We are calling on Higher Education employers to address the scandal of the gender, ethnic, and disability pay gaps. While salaries at the top of universities continue to grow, and there … Read more
Branch president Chloe Wallace responds to Islamophobic hate incidents on campus UCU opposes all forms of racism. Some staff have recently been targeted with Islamophobic literature sent to their Leeds University addresses. Leeds University UCU condemns the Islamophobic incidents and we … Read more
Leeds UCU committee are hugely supportive of the Black History Month programme organised by Leeds 11, the university staff network for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Staff, together with partners and friends. See the full programme here: https://equality.leeds.ac.uk/events/black-history-month-bhm-2021/ We’d recommend … Read more
This is advance notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the branch to consider a single issue – our disputes over Four Fights (“pay and related matters” i.e. pay, casualisation, workload and equality) and USS pensions – and in … Read more
Email to branch members 28 June 2021 A quick email to update you on some local things at University of Leeds. Promotions The promotion process has been frozen for some time, and we have been pressing for it to be … Read more
Leeds UCU committee want to express our complete solidarity at the events that are taking place around the world. We are sorry to our Black students, colleagues and members who are having to collectively relive trauma to mobilise people to … Read more
An emergency meeting of the branch was help today to establish the branch’s position on the employers’ offer on casualisation, equal pay, workloads and pay (the ‘four fights’ dispute) and on the latest developments in the USS pensions dispute. The … Read more
Email sent to branch members 20 May 2020 I’m writing with some further information about the two disputes – the reports from the UCU negotiating teams. Please read these if you possibly can before our emergency general meeting 1pm Friday … Read more