New lockdown
Message from branch president Ben Plumpton sent to members Tuesday 5 January 2020 Happy New Year, and here’s hoping it is a better one than 2020… I’m writing to let you know that Leeds UCU is working hard on your … Read more
Category Archives: Members emails
The start of constructive progress on Covid-19-related issues
Text of email from Ben Plumpton to members 27 March 2020 Hello everyone, Many of you will have been working at home for a week or longer. These are challenging times, and you might feel you are struggling with too … Read more
Coronavirus planning at University of Leeds
Text of members email sent 16 March 2020 at 5.32pm. Dear members, I mentioned in my email on Friday that we were writing to the VC and asking for an urgent meeting about coronavirus. The letter we sent is below, … Read more
Thank you strikers, + coronavirus and more
Strikes and next steps in the disputes First of all, huge thanks for your strike action over the past four weeks. We have shown university managements across the UK that staff are not prepared to put up with precarious contracts, … Read more
Strikes starting Thursday (what you need to know)
Text from Branch President’s email to members 17th February 2020 As you know, we will be striking again soon, starting this Thursday, 20th February, over our two disputes. This means you should not do any work on strike days (including working … Read more
Union emails during strikes
We know many of you don’t check your university email when you are on strike, which is sensible to avoid getting drawn into work-related things. However, this can mean that you miss important emails from UCU. The union nationally and … Read more
Striking Insights – call for teach outs
Once again, during our forthcoming strike action, Leeds UCU will be running ‘teach outs’ to offer alternative knowledge to our students. These could be presentations, discussions, creative labs, guest speakers, performances or other activities, both in the Quaker Centre and … Read more
Do you have design skills?
Leeds UCU needs someone with good design skills to make our local leaflets, stickers and posters more attractive and engaging, both immediately for the forthcoming strikes and more long term too for general resources. Could this be you? Contact ucu@leeds.ac.uk … Read more
UCU national elections
You may have already received or will shortly receive a big envelope of papers about voting for UCU National Executive Committee members, trustees, and the next Vice President (who will be from Further Education). Please do use your votes – … Read more
News on negotiations, the digital picket line, hot breakfasts and more
Text from branch president Ben Plumpton’s email to members 27th November Negotiations The most important thing to tell you is that our UCU negotiators on pay and conditions met with UCEA, the employers organization, on Tuesday. See UCU’s statement about that meeting. … Read more