The British Dental Association sent a message of support to UCU over the pension strikes. Staff in the School of Dentistry have joint membership arrangement with UCU and the BDA. (See The BDA statement says: The British Dental Association (BDA) … Read more
The Engineering Professors Council has issued a statement on the USS pensions dispute, saying: “Universities should try to maintain the conditions of employment under which academics were originally employed. That includes pensions.” The full statement is below: As the EPC … Read more
UCU University of Leeds branch all sorts of picketing awesomeness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvQsx-hPDe0 This page was last updated on 1 March 2018
Read moreUCU has called on the University of Leeds senior management to drop their punitive, divisive and escalatory plan to deduct 25% from wages for refusing to reschedule lectures or classes, or to cover the work of absent colleagues as industrial … Read more
Check out [this article] in the Times Higher from today which covers the proposals tabled to employers today after consultation with some of these “dove” VCs, and for a sense of how different the industrial climate could be if more VCs were willing … Read more
Here’s some advice for your first day back after a period of fantastic striking: 1) Read the Industrial Action FAQ [Click here] It has a lot of information in it, so please check it to see if it answers any … Read more
I was a part of the British university system between 2008 and 2014. During this period I saw how working conditions – the conditions for good teaching and research – rapidly deteriorated. Not only due to government defunding, but also … Read more
To mark the first day of our massive strike in defence of our pensions we’re having a big march and rally on 22 February. We’ll be assembling from 11.30 on the Parkinson Building steps, setting off at 12pm, and marching … Read more
Email for UCU branch president Vicky Blake sent to members 15 February Dear Members, The single most effective thing our Vice Chancellor and senior managers could have done to bring the current dispute over USS to a close (and to avoid … Read more
Would you like to know what’s going on with our pension scheme? Why the plans to attack it are totally unnecessary and actually damaging to the future of the scheme? If you missed the open meeting on 6 February with … Read more