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: 14th June, 2018
Dear Paul, You will no doubt have seen the recent Guardian league table, in which the University of Leicester fell 20 places. While Leicester UCU is not in favour of league tables, we still see it as more evidence that the university is going in the wrong direction. The growing managerialism is undermining the social…
Published: 3rd June, 2018
UCU conference 2018 was somewhat tumultuous. What follows is our account of what transpired. A collective statement, signed by both of us along with a great many others, which has already been widely circulated, can be seen here. In short, the events were quite shocking, but perhaps not that surprising. UCU employees including the General…
Published: 25th March, 2018
At the end of last week, Paul Boyle wrote to all University of Leicester employees about the results of the 2017 staff survey – conducted in October and November. The timing of the release – Friday afternoon, when many employees’ heads were full of pension-dispute thoughts – led some to speculate that our president and…
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: 13th March, 2018
Was that the most intense day so far? It’s been an emotional 20 hours. Yesterday evening we learned that our UCU negotiators had struck a deal with their Universities UK counter-parts. UCU General Secretary Sally Hunt was selling it as a good deal – a done deal? But it took no time to work out…
Published: 12th March, 2018
‘Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.‘ No doubt many vice-chancellors – including ‘our’ Paul Boyle – have been thinking this… and today they thought that ‘real rain’ had come – ‘this scum’, of course, being their own employees who for the past few weeks have not only…
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…
Published: 5th March, 2018
Wow! What a day… it’s difficult to know where to start. Our third week of strike action began bright and breezy as always, with pickets out and about well before 8am. The snow had thawed, the Beast from the East receding, and UCU strikers and their supporters all had a spring in the step. There’s…
Published: 5th March, 2018
Dear David Willetts We are writing to ask you to stand down as Chancellor Elect with immediate effect, as an act of good faith in the wider interests of the University of Leicester. As you know, your appointment as Chancellor did not arise as a result of consultation with our university staff or with students. You…
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