Last week, over 600 attendees heard Jo Grady, branch representatives and activists address a joint mass rally against planned cuts by Imperial College, Liverpool University, Roehampton University and SOAS. A day later, Reading University announced redundancies amounting to 500 FTE, to be implemented by sacking all its staff and rehiring on inferior contracts. This is…
This is a formal calling notice for an Extraordinary General Meeting of UCL UCU which will be held on Wednesday 1 July from 15:00-16:00, (facilitated using Zoom conferencing – details to follow). The meeting will be an opportunity to discuss concerns about the workload implications of the move to online teaching and other local and…
At our Extraordinary General Meeting of the 11 June we read out a statement and held a minute’s silence for George Floyd and all Black people and members of other racialised minorities who have been killed or otherwise harmed by racist institutions.
This is a formal calling notice for an Extraordinary General Meeting of UCL UCU which will be held on Thursday 11 June from 13:00-14:00, (facilitated using Zoom conferencing – details to follow).
This is a formal calling notice for an Extraordinary General Meeting of UCL UCU which will be held on Thursday 4 June from 11:00-12:00, (facilitated using Zoom conferencing – details to follow). Note that we will be meeting from 11:00-12:00 in response to feedback from members that are working from home and trying to balance caring…
This document sets out the position of the UCU USS National Dispute Committee in respect of the ongoing USS dispute and offers recommendations to branch delegates. The purpose is to aid discussions at the branch delegates’ meetings and to inform national debate within our union. There has been significant movement in the USS negotiations, but…
Today at 2pm we meet to discuss the current position with the two national disputes: USS and Four Fights (pay, casualisation, equality and workload). Colleagues will note that we won two industrial action ballots, with a vote of 80% for strike action and 90% for ASOS in both disputes, in a ballot that closed at…
This is a formal calling notice for an Extraordinary General Meeting of UCL UCU which will be held on Tuesday 19 May from 3-4pm, (facilitated using Zoom conferencing – details to follow). Note that we will be meeting from 3-4pm in response to feedback from members that are working from home and trying to balance caring…
A message to UCL-UCU colleague on Academic Board The call to vote in UCL’s Academic Board Elections to Council and Academic Committee went out on the 18 May (see email from AcadServ.Secretariat with link to the Zeus voting system). Please note that when voting online, you are able to change your vote up until the…
Note: the issues below will be discussed at our next General Meeting for members on Thursday 4 June, 11am on Zoom. We welcome the announcement by UCL today that the university will move its teaching provision on-line to protect the health and safety of staff and students. We look forward to further detailed negotiations with…
