There seems to be an issue with hotmail, outlook.com and live.com not delivering some UCU emails. It appears to mainly affect emails with attachments, and it doesn’t seem to be consistent. 

UCU’s IT supplier is trying to resolve a problem with the Microsoft subsidiaries, but as yet we don’t know if this is a temporary issue, a fault, or a change to the service provided by those platforms.

There’s a list below of the recent emails from UCU branch officers, so you can see if your email provider is filtering some of them out.

It seems likely this is preventing some UCU members receiving emails from the local UCU University of Leeds branch and also from UCU head office.

The branch officers don’t have a solution yet because the cause of the problem isn’t known yet, but it you already have another email address you can use and if you want to switch to that you can do it using ‘My UCU’ https://www.ucu.org.uk/myucu

HE consultative ballot

If you haven’t received your HE consultative ballot email, see the email version of this post – sent 5.15pm Thursday 31 July 2025 for links to request a replacement ballot, or see the Friday emails from the UCU campaigns team. If you haven’t received any of these email ucu@leeds.ac.uk for advice.

Only “Full” members of the branch are included in this indicative ballot, so if your membership account indicates you don’t do paid work for the university then you shouldn’t have received a ballot email.

Not sure if you’re receiving emails from the UCU branch?

Here’s the recent emails from “UCU University of Leeds” branch which you should have received:

• Wednesday 16 July: Re. UCU general meeting agenda
• Friday 18 July: London Trans Pride, 26 July
• Tuesday 22 July: Vote in UC consultative ballot on pay, conditions, job security is OPEN (…
• Wednesday 23 July: Response to incidents at graduation
• Thursday 24 July: Fighting and Winning against Redundancies, Monday 28 July, …
• Friday 25 July: Open Meeting on Trans Rights

This page was last updated on 31 July 2025