The university finally published its climate plan in December 2021, setting out the pathway for it to reach its net zero target by 2030. This will no doubt have many impacts for us as a community of workers at the … Read more
Ben has retired so we need a new equality officer – could it be you? Or one of your colleagues? At the last annual general meeting we agreed Ben Plumpton and Megan Povey would jointly cover the UCU University of … Read more
You have until 17 January to complete your personal USS consultation responses, and we strongly recommend that you do: The University of Leeds has the fifth largest population of USS members within the current dispute, and a volume of responses … Read more
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
2pm Friday 3 December: drop-in for members on casualised contracts (fixed-term, fixed funded, hourly paid or otherwise insecure) with branch anti-casualisation officers Xanthe Whittaker and Joanne Armitage Zoom link Meeting ID: 867 3955 0456 Passcode: zKJrG9 This page was last … Read more
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
Who are UCU and why are you striking? UCU is a trade union of over 13,000 academics, researchers, tutors, administrators, IT staff, librarians and postgraduate research students in universities, colleges, prisons, adult education & training organisations across the UK. As … Read more
Branch president Chloe Wallace answers some initial questions about the planned industrial action. This post is from an email sent to branch members 17 November 2021. Dear Members You will have received yesterday afternoon notification from Jo Grady that we … Read more
There are serious questions to ask about whether university senior management has misrepresented the planned cuts to our pensions. This post was an email sent to members on 16 November 2021 on behalf of the committee by the committee’s lead … Read more
Following members’ vote for industrial action, three strike days have been called for December 2021: Wednesday 1 December Thursday 2 December Friday 3 December More on the UCU national website at https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11872/Universities-to-be-hit-with-three-days-of-strikes-in-December More details to follow. This page was last … Read more