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Open Letter Calling for the Immediate Release of Salma al-Shehab

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 25 March 2024 by Rachel Walls25 March 2024

Open Letter Calling for the Immediate Release of Salma al-Shehab  We the undersigned academics, students and university employees call for the immediate release of Salma al-Shehab; a University of Leeds PhD student and woman’s rights activist, who was sentenced to 27 years’ … Read more

Posted in Call to action, Equality, Featured, Gender equality, International, Wider campaigning | Tagged equality, human_rights, Solidarity

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

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

UCU University of Leeds Branch statement on gendered and sexual violence

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 16 March 2021 by Alan Smith22 March 2021

For too long women, transgender, gender non-binary people and children have faced the threat of male violence and have been subjected to this violence to a sickeningly disproportionate degree. The horrifying kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard and the appalling … Read more

Posted in Equality, Featured, Gender equality, Government, Sexual harassment, Wider campaigning

Branch votes to reject latest ‘four fights’ offer

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 22 May 2020 by Alan Smith5 July 2021

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

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

Your feedback on next steps in the ‘Four Fights’ and USS disputes

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 20 May 2020 by Alan Smith20 May 2020

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

Posted in Anticasualisation, Black members / BME, Gender equality, Gender pay gap, Pay, Pensions, Workload

Thank you strikers, + coronavirus and more

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 14 March 2020 by Alan Smith14 March 2020

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

Posted in Anticasualisation, Black members / BME, Campaigns, Dispute, Dispute advice, Equality, Gender equality, Gender pay gap, Health and safety, Members emails, Pay, Pensions, UCU democracy, Workload

Leeds Members of Parliament have written to the vice chancellor

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 13 March 2020 by Alan Smith13 March 2020

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

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

Survey on gender and ethnic pay gaps

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

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

Posted in Black members / BME, Equality, Gender equality, Gender pay gap

Further strikes announced

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 5 February 2020 by Alan Smith6 February 2020

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

Posted in Anticasualisation, Black members / BME, Campaigns, Dispute, Dispute advice, Equality, Gender equality, Gender pay gap, General Meetings, Pay, Pensions, Workload

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