Strikes and next steps in the disputes First of all, huge thanks for your strike action over the past four weeks. We have shown university managements across the UK that staff are not prepared to put up with precarious contracts, … Read more
Leeds MPs have written to the vice chancellors of University of Leeds and Leeds Trinity University expressing their full support for the demands of UCU members and asking for universities to act positively to resolve the dispute. Professor Margaret A … Read more
Leeds UCU at our General Meeting on 22nd January agreed to work with the Equality Trust to develop and run a survey of Leeds UCU members, to provide evidence supporting our negotiations with the university on pay gaps. See https://www.leedsucu.org.uk/members-make-dispute-decisions-at-extraordinary-general-meeting/ … Read more
You’ll have seen from your email on Monday from the UCU general secretary Jo Grady that UCU have announced 14 more days strike action during February and March. Our negotiating team and elected Higher Education Committee think that, despite some … Read more
UCU University of Leeds UCU is one of several branches with motions calling for a migrant members equality strand in UCU. We urge branches and delegates to UCU Congress to support our motions. Why is it so important? Three in … Read more
UCU vice-president Nita Sanghera has been subject to horrendous abuse online by members of a far-right white supremacist group. We stand alongside Nita. UCU stands for the kind of unity and equality that the far right despises. UCU London Region … Read more
Today UCU reps have been talking to members about their experiences of racism in the workplace. To defeat racism everyone needs to understand what it can be like to face racism at work, and that it is still a reality … Read more
UCU is supporting a national demonstration of unity in London on Saturday in response to concerns of increasing racism and xenophobia and the rise of the far right. The demonstration is called by Stand Up To Racism, Unite Against Fascism and … Read more
The UCU Yorkshire and Humber black and minority ethnic (BME) network’s Black History Month event is on Wednesday 3 October, 3pm – 5pm. All UCU members welcome. Seminar programme Surviving the workplace – empowering yourself Wednesday 3 October, 3pm – … Read more
UCU YORKSHIRE & HUMBERSIDE BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY NETWORK (BME) & RedBobble Theatre Company presents ‘TO WALK IN YOUR SHOES’ Sunday 22 October @ St Paul’s Church, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH. FREE EVENT Doors Open @ 12pm Introduction … Read more