This is an invitation to an Open Member’s Meeting of UCL UCU taking place in person and hybrid via Zoom on Tuesday 21st October 2025 at 5.30-6.30pm. UCL UCU are hosting a hybrid event with our general secretary Dr Jo Grady and are inviting all members in the local area to attend to get an update and ask questions about…

This is a calling notice for motions to be submitted to the online General Meeting, held via zoom on Tuesday 21st October 2025 at 1-2pm. Member have been emailed details of how to register. We have advice on how to write a motion on our website. You can also contact branch officers for help with drafting motions. Simply email ucu@ucl.ac.uk….

In line with our branch policy we would like to publicise two notices about upcoming Palestine-related events.

1. London National March for Palestine – Saturday 11 October, 12 noon @ Victoria Embankment
2. Launch event for BRICUP’s “Why Boycott Israeli Universities” booklet, Tuesday October 21

Please come to this meeting – if your department/faculty has not yet faced the EASE/MarComms restructuring grinder, it will come to you soon and it will be just as damaging.

UCL cleaners have come out on strike for the first time in nearly 6 years… Their last massive strike in 2019 won sick pay, holidays and pensions… Now all that is under attack as UCL and their subcontractor SODEXO are trying to implement huge cuts which will see over 150 cleaners lose their jobs! Stand…

As the teaching term gears up we wanted to communicate to you the situation on lecture recordings by UCL, and the rights that staff have. UCL has replaced its lecture recording platform, Lecturecast, with a new Platform, Panopto. UCL policy with respect to recording lectures, and the agreement with UCU remains the same. In particular, the…

We are encouraging colleagues to support the UCL Cleaners’ campaign by

Joining their Protest on Saturday 20th September from 3-5pm, which starts at Ramsay Hall. 

Make a donation to their fighting fund. 

Send a letter to the UCL Provost asking him to stop the cuts.

There will be a General Meeting at 1pm on Thursday 11th September, online via zoom. Members should register in advance to receive a zoom link to attend this meeting, the registration link has been sent by email. The purpose of this General Meeting is to discuss the following issues: All members are encouraged to attend and vote….

More than 100 redundancies are being planned for cleaners at UCL. Below is a message from our sister trade union, IWGB, outlining the plans in more detail. These redundancies form part of a “sweeping transformation” to how our campus and student halls are cleaned – namely a huge reduction in the amount of cleaning being performed,…

As the EASE and MarComms process is currently being rolled out across UCL, there are two important actions members can take. 1. We are asking members to sign this petition calling for a pause of existing processes and a moratorium on any new ones falling under the UCL-wide EASE/MarComms restructuring rollout, and call on UCL to enter…