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…
Please join us via zoom for an update and to discuss the next steps in both disputes: ‘Four Fights’ and USS This is a formal calling notice for a discussion meeting of UCL UCU which will be held tomorrow, Friday 22 May from 2-3pm, (facilitated using Zoom conferencing – details to follow). Note that we will…
This is a reminder of today’s Extraordinary General Meeting, which will take place at 3-4pm on Zoom to discuss when and how staff will be enabled to safely return to UCL buildings. As we previously reported, UCL management is saying that staff should not feel under pressure to return to buildings, and that any return…
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…
