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Category Archives: Consultations and negotiations

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Latest news from Leeds UCU

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 20 August 2020 by Alan Smith26 August 2020

Text of email sent to branch members by branch president Ben Plumpton on 20 August 2020 Dear members, I hope you are coping OK in these difficult times and that you and your families and friends are well.  There’s a … Read more

Posted in Covid19, Redundancy, UCU democracy, UCU levy, Working from home

Lecture capture policy: update

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 9 June 2020 by Alan Smith9 June 2020

Email to members from branch vice president Chloe Wallace, 9 June 2020 Dear members I hope that you and yours are well – it is for many of us a particularly challenging time of a particularly challenging year, and I … Read more

Posted in Consultations and negotiations, Lecture capture

Consultation on changes to lecture capture policy

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

As members will be aware, the university is proposing to introduce a new policy on audio-video recording  (lecture capture) and has consulted UCU on its contents. Many thanks to those members who responded to our request for feedback: you can … Read more

Posted in Consultations and negotiations, Lecture capture

Lecture capture policy: summary of feedback

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

Summary of informal member feedback on the senior management proposed changes to the lecture capture policy The general policy on recording and the loss of the automatic right to opt out Significant unease about new point 6: using lecture capture … Read more

Posted in Consultations and negotiations, Lecture capture

Detailed response on proposed changes to lecture capture policy

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 15 May 2020 by Alan Smith20 May 2020

This is the detailed response sent from the branch to University of Leeds senior management at the start of the consultation on the proposed changes by management to the agreed lecture capture policy. (See also the motion passed by the … Read more

Posted in Consultations and negotiations, Lecture capture

Extraordinary general meeting 22 January: disputes + organisational change policy

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 7 January 2020 by Alan Smith8 January 2020

The branch committee has called an extraordinary general meeting to discuss a number of urgent issues which won’t wait until the next scheduled general meeting. The meeting will be: 12pm – 1pm on Wednesday 22 January Roger Stevens lecture theatre … Read more

Posted in Anticasualisation, Consultations and negotiations, Dispute, Equality, General Meetings, Pay, Pensions, Workload

Heads of School recruitment and the spurious use of ‘equality and inclusion’

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 16 July 2019 by Alan Smith22 July 2019

Many of you have expressed your discontent at the recent blanket policy of Head of School positions automatically going out to external advertisement, and in some cases the use of headhunters in the recruitment process. The committee shares these concerns … Read more

Posted in Recruitment

Newsletter – summer 2019

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 2 July 2019 by Alan Smith2 July 2019

University of Leeds University & College Union USS Pensions There seems to be no comfortable end in sight for the USS dispute. USS have proposed three options as solutions to the ongoing valuation, all of which mean members and employers … Read more

Posted in Campaigns, Migration and refugees, Newsletter, Pay, Pensions, REF, UCU democracy, Workload

Discussion boards for in-module feedback

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 7 June 2019 by Alan Smith7 June 2019

You may have seen on Campusweb the announcement of the introduction, in 2019/20, of discussion boards within modules in Minerva to provide in-course feedback – you can find the announcement here: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/forstaff/news/article/6714/student_voice_enhancing_learning_and_teaching It’s particularly important to emphasise that this initiative … Read more

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Report on UCU Congress 2019

UCU University of Leeds Branch Posted on 1 June 2019 by Alan Smith26 July 2019

UCU’s annual congress is its supreme policy making body and it met this year over the May Bank Holiday in Harrogate. This report is an attempt to summarise three very full days of intense and important debates on the various … Read more

Posted in Anticasualisation, climate and ecological emergency, Equality, Gender pay gap, LGBT+, Mental health, Migration and refugees, Pay, Pensions, REF, UCU democracy, Workload

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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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