This post reproduces the details from an email sent to all members on 16 October about how to apply to the UCU fighting fund. Please read carefully and if after applying you have any additional questions or need further help … Read more
It would be great if you would let us know when you’ve voted in the pensions industrial action ballot by emailing ucu@leeds.ac.uk with the word ‘voted’ in the subject box. (We’re not asking what you voted.) This will help us to … Read more
Leeds UCU is still in dispute with university management over our statutes. Management have refused: to remove ‘some other substantial reason’ for dismissal to reinstate a medically qualified chair for appeal panels for dismissal on health grounds to reinstate an … Read more
The ballot mandate in the Statutes dispute has expired (new anti-trade-union laws give ballots a 6-month shelf life) and we are now escalating to the next phase in the dispute. As agreed at the recent all-members general meeting we will … Read more
Below is key information about next week’s strike action at this critical point in our dispute with the university senior management over defence of Statute protections. Strike days: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – 11, 12, 13 October. Picket lines: We … Read more
We have excellent news on this front, especially for members who have been worrying about any disproportional impact that strike deduction may have on their financial situation – following our detailed requests for support that would encompass financially vulnerable and … Read more
UCU members at the emergency general meeting this Thursday will vote on a motion proposing a further three days of strike action, and another asking UCU to begin its academic boycott, in the dispute over the changes to the university … Read more
Short version: yes, but see below for advice. Longer version: Members have been asking UCU reps what the union policy is on annual academic meetings (AAMs). UCU opposed the introduction of annual academic meetings. There was already a much better and … Read more
Following a request by UCU, Unite and Unison, the university has agreed to open the staff assistance fund to staff affected by the floods which badly affected some local areas from Boxing Day. To apply to the University of Leeds staff … Read more