This is a reminder about our Extraordinary General Meeting on Tuesday 19 May, 3-4pm on Zoom. We will address the question of when and how staff will be enabled to return to UCL buildings. A motion for debate, ‘No return to UCL until it’s safe’, is in the Appendix below. The sharp change in the…
Please take a few minutes to respond to our short anonymous survey on home working and physical health, which explores members’ home working situations, including use of Display Screen Equipment (DSE) during the “lockdown”. This survey covers physical health only, and does not address emotional or mental health, nor workload and / or stress. We…
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…
Today, Tuesday 28 April, is International Workers’ Memorial Day. This year we commemorate all those who have died from Covid-19, as well as remembering others who tragically died at work all over the world. At UCL we have agreed to host an open memorial meeting, in the form of an online meeting, jointly with other…
Our next General Meeting (GM) will take place on Zoom, on Tuesday 21 April, 1-2pm. The main focus will be the threat to jobs in this Covid-19 situation. Two key groups who are under threat are research staff, and staff in Public Anthropology. Affected colleagues will speak to the meeting. See Appendix 1 for details. We hope many…
We are writing to update colleagues regarding a number of matters, most importantly on negotiations with UCL to avoid redundancy of staff during the lockdown. Redundancies – staff at risk now! UCL has officially frozen new posts on core funding and most restructuring proposals have been put on ice. New research posts are being advertised,…
We offer our goodwill to UCL management in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, but as new emergency policies are introduced we have a duty to scrutinise these, make management aware of unintended consequences and to demand changes where necessary. At last Wednesday’s online branch meeting UCL UCU resolved to make 3 key demands of UCL…
We are writing with basic advice to keep you safe if you are working from home. None of the changes imposed on us, by force majeure (extrinsic necessity), are changes that have been negotiated with UCL’s recognised trade unions.
