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Category Archives: University operational issues

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‘Weekly 10’: advice from UCU

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 27 January 2022 by Alan Smith27 January 2022

Advice for members in IT on the ‘Weekly 10’ performance management tool being implemented in IT from Monday 31 January. This post is from an email sent to UCU members working in IT on 27 January 2022 by branch president … Read more

Posted in Capability, IT, Members emails

Policy decision: motion 1, 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 Leeds UCU agrees to call a dispute with the employer as a consequence of the capability procedure being used to cause a member of staff to … Read more

Posted in Branch policy, Capability, Dispute, Dispute policy

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

Annual leave carry-over “whack-a-mole”

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 7 September 2021 by Alan Smith13 September 2021

UCU reps and senior HR managers are still having to deal with localised re-emergences of a wrong interpretation of the policy for carrying up to a week’s annual leave into the following year. This is a hang-over from a dubious … Read more

Posted in Annual leave, University operational issues

News update – lots of things

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 30 July 2021 by Alan Smith11 August 2021

Email to members Friday 30 July 2021 This is your final email from me as Leeds UCU President.  Chloe Wallace will be your brilliant new President from 1st August! I wanted to update you on a number of things. Health … Read more

Posted in Annual leave, Anticasualisation, Covid19, Dispute, Equality, Gender pay gap, General Meetings, Members emails, Pay, Pensions, Workload

Decisions made at 5 July 2021 general meeting

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 6 July 2021 by Alan Smith7 July 2021

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

Posted in Branch, Branch policy, Conduct and disciplinary, Digital working, Featured, General Meetings

Local update

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 29 June 2021 by Alan Smith7 July 2021

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

Posted in Anticasualisation, Black members / BME, Covid19, Equality, Featured, Health and safety, Promotions

Leeds University UCU response to the University’s student education delivery plans for 2021/22

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 20 May 2021 by Chloe Wallace7 July 2021

Leeds University UCU welcomes the recognition by the University that there is still much uncertainty between now and September, when the next academic year begins. Whilst vaccine progress has been positive, at the time of writing there is a new … Read more

Posted in Covid19, Featured, Health and safety, University operational issues

Overseas working

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 15 February 2021 by Alan Smith15 February 2021

Thanks from the branch officers for feedback from members who are/were working overseas. Many of you were very distressed by the initial communications you received from the university and by follow up conversations. The UCU negotiating team are feeding this … Read more

Posted in Working abroad

School of Education NOT in review

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 15 February 2021 by Alan Smith15 February 2021

Staff in Education have been worried about a review seemingly being announced at a school meeting, after which staff were invited to small group meetings to discuss this review. UCU branch officers queried this, because any potential review/reorganisation should go … Read more

Posted in University operational issues

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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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