Published: 21st September, 2018
Leicester UCU is currently balloting for Fair Pay and Equal Pay in HE. You should have received your ballot paper – if not, request a replacement. The deadline for voting is Friday 19 October.
Published: 20th September, 2018
Joint Statement The University of Leicester’s Leadership Team and Leicester UCU are pleased to confirm that the local dispute between both parties has been resolved and, therefore, the strike action planned to commence next week has been cancelled. We have worked closely and constructively over the past few months to mitigate the risk of any…
Published: 2nd August, 2018
UCU Leicester, alongside the Branch Solidarity Network, are running Red Summer Audit, where we emailed UCU members and branch organisers and officers across the country to ask: 1. Who/how many are facing redundancies and VS at the moment? What plans are in place to counter these redundancies? 2. What is the rationale being provided by…
Published: 2nd August, 2018
The University cannot exist without: -the producers: academics, professional and technical staff -the product: teaching, publications, marketing paperwork, finance documentation, storage systems -the users: students We academics have expertise and experience in the subjects we have devoted our lives to, that cannot be boxed into a generic supply/demand economic model. Academics’ work has impacted on…
Published: 30th July, 2018
Dear LUCU member, Last Friday, 27 July, UCU Regional Office informed Paul Boyle, Vice-Chancellor, of our intention to ballot for industrial action concerning the failure of the University of Leicester to “remove the threat of compulsory redundancies and ensure the renewal of fixed term contracts unless there is a genuine and demonstrable reason for not…
Published: 15th June, 2018
The letter below was sent to Professor Paul Boyle on 15th June 2018 Professor Paul Boyle University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH 15th June 2018 Dear Professor Boyle, Declaration of dispute: staff redundancies I write on behalf of the University of Leicester UCU and in conjunction with advice from our Regional Office. …
Published: 7th May, 2018
As explained in the Strike FAQ, UCU members should not read or respond to any emails whilst on strike, and should immediately delete, unread, all emails on return to work — except for those from students. During strike periods, we ask you to put an out-of-office auto-reply on your emails. We suggest the following text — though of course…
Published: 20th March, 2018
You may have received and read an ‘addressing the facts‘ email from USS. Please see below for a counter argument, as prepared by Leeds UCU: Members will be receiving an ‘urgent update’ from the USS trustee today. We would like to offer some further information on this update. We note that the trustee points out…
Published: 14th March, 2018
Briefly, yesterday the press informed the world that the strike action would be called off from today, but after the proposed deal was rejected, we resolved to stay out on strike. So we were pleased to wake up to a crisp and sunny spring morning, and at last it seemed that the weather was on…
Published: 12th March, 2018
Today, we celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD)! We started our pickets bright and early like every day, with thoughts of solidarity for the women of Yarl’s Wood still on hunger strike. We organised a new, flying picket as well, to show the less-often picketed departments that we’re still here! A bit before 11, we all…
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