Published: 18th December, 2018
Leicester UCU – 2018 End of Year Quiz [HDquiz quiz = “29”]
Published: 16th December, 2018
Goldsmiths UCU is an active and committed branch and activists there have been particularly busy in 2018. With Justice for Cleaners and Unison they have been campaigning to win parity in pay and conditions between cleaners and other Goldsmiths staff; cleaners have been brought back in-house as a result of this campaign. Working with students and others, they have published…
Published: 27th November, 2018
We are very proud to announce that Leicester UCU has been nominated for the Midlands TUC Campaign of the Year award, for our successful summer campaign against compulsory redundancies at our university. The winner will be announced at an Awards night – which will also celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Trades Union Congress –…
Published: 23rd October, 2018
Our union’s Congress Business Committee (CBC) has a seemingly thankless, but nevertheless essential, job. Its task is to sort the dozens of motions submitted each year to annual congress, filter out those that are ineligible for some reasons (submitted too late and don’t satisify criteria to qualify as ’emergency’, for instance), coordinated the ‘compositing’ of…
Published: 4th October, 2018
Motion in support of ‘Stansted 15’: Endorsed by the UCU Committee on 4th October 2018 Leicester UCU notes the case of the so-called ‘Stansted 15’, activists from groups including End Deportations, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants and Plane Stupid, who, in March 2017 used non-violent direct action – lying down in front of an…
Published: 15th August, 2018
Following from the VC’s illuminating message to all staff yesterday, we thought it might be an opportune moment to give you an update on our negotiations with ULT on the threat of compulsory redundancies. Over the last few months the dialogue between UCU and ULT has been constructive, useful, some progress has been made, and some…
Published: 10th August, 2018
Email sent to members on Friday 10 August. From Monday UCU members will receive a postal ballot paper to vote on whether you agree to enter into strike action, as well as action short of a strike (ASOS), to help defend members against the threat of compulsory redundancies. Earlier in the summer, Leicester UCU members…
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…
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