Dear Colleague This is to give you notice of a requested EGM on the above topic. We have received a request by 29 members of the branch to hold an EGM on this topic (the requisitioners are listed in Appendix 1 below). The branch rules allow for the requisition of a meeting on a ‘topic’ (rule 14)…
Last Friday, a packed meeting of UCL’s Academic Board voted to oppose plans for an industrial-scale mitigation strategy.
UCL have set a deadline, to declare whether or not you have participated in the MAB – of this Friday, June 9! Read our advice to members here.
Next week will be a very important one for the current Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) industrial action at UCL. Please come to an Extraordinary MAB Organising Meeting (MABers welcome Tuesday 6 June at 1pm. Please register to receive a zoom link for this meeting (link via email). The agenda will include: The meeting is open to…
Dear colleague, Our employers have spent months refusing to negotiate with us, but the cracks are beginning to show. Cambridge and Queens University Belfast are the latest institutions to publicly call for a return to negotiations. Meanwhile SOAS and Dundee UCU branches are on strike over 100% deductions. Here at UCL, we have a vital meeting…
The branch rule changes approved at the General Meeting on 31st May 2023 have now been updated on the website. Details of each rule change can be found below.
We have received a lot of questions in the last few days about how UCL is responding to the MAB, and what UCU is doing nationally to reopen negotiations. We have included an update on both of these issues below (Appendices 2 and 3).
“As a student, I support the boycott completely. Our professors are what makes university great, and it’s a disgrace that UCL management are maintaining such exploitative working conditions.” – 3rd Year Sociology Student
Information on actions relating to the MAB we are asking members to take, our latest version of the FAQs on the MAB, and an update on how we are fighting UCL’s punitive salary deductions
An urgent reminder about a change to UCL’s MAB reporting date, report from Thursday’s Emergency General Meeting and information on the upcoming “Solidari-teas”
