Published: 30th May, 2019
Remember: UCU is for Academic-Related Professional-Services staff too!
Published: 11th April, 2019
Details of the structure of the hustings, as well as questions asked by branch members, are available here:
Published: 5th April, 2019
Leicester UCU has heard of a recent racist attack against members of staff at the Brookfield site. These members of staff were subjected to a verbal racist attack, including a death threat, when leaving Brookfield. We are appalled to hear of this, and have shared our concerns with both the President of the Students Union…
Published: 4th April, 2019
Leicester UCU extend our solidarity and support to those students speaking out about their experiences of sexual violence and harassment experienced at the University of Leicester, and other higher education institutions. These acts of violence are wholly unacceptable and have no place on our campus. We call on the University of Leicester to listen carefully…
Published: 3rd April, 2019
The Suffragettes chained themselves to metal gates and held hunger strikes in order to receive the vote for women in the early part of the 20th century. Dagenham plant and Ford machinist women workers fought in the 1960s to be paid the same amount that men were being paid to carry out the same work…
Published: 2nd April, 2019
Originally scheduled to coincide with the one-year anniversary of our USS pensions strike, we had to rearrange this party because of problems with the venue. But rearrange it we have. It’ll now be on the evening of Tuesday 7 May (the same days as our AGM). So please join us, along with our friends from…
Published: 2nd April, 2019
Wednesday 8 May. 4.30–6.30pm. Rattray Lecture Theatre Confirmed speakers: Natalie Bennet – University of Leicester graduate and former leader of the Green Party Ambrose Musiyiwa – poet, journalist and facilitator of Civic Leicester Jacqueline Sanchez-Taylor – lecturer in sociology Elsie White – co-chair, Intersectional Feminist Society Marta Gasparin and Jan Zalasiewicz – convenors, Anthropocene Research…
Published: 23rd March, 2019
On Wednesday (March 20) representatives from Leicester UCU, along with reps from Unison and Unite, the other two unions that represent University of Leicester employees, attended a meeting entitled ‘Selecting our next Vice-Chancellor: we want your views’. The meeting was facilitated by Fiona Carruthers of ‘international executive search firm’ Perrett Laver – which has been…
Published: 22nd March, 2019
Dear David Willetts, It has been a year since I last wrote to you, and I must say I was disappointed to never receive a reply. You will recall that I wrote on behalf of Leicester UCU to express our disgust at your appointment as Chancellor of the University of Leicester. I made the letter…
Published: 20th March, 2019
Weathering the equinoctial gales that battered the celebration of International Women’s Day during the UCU pensions dispute of 2018, staff of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History renamed their building after Dame Kathleen Kenyon. Kenyon is renowned for pioneering projects in the Middle East, at Jerusalem and Jericho, and she led the Institute of…
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