UCU’s National Ballot over Pay, Equality, Casualisation and Workload is open UCU has launched its National Ballot over Pay, Equality, Casualisation and Workload. You should have received a ballot envelope through your door or at work. Please vote YES to strike and YES to action short of a strike. But don’t just vote yourself: ask your colleagues to vote. Join…
UCU Election Debate – Candidates for Vice President of the Union: 1-2pm, Thu 17 Jan, G12 1-19 Torrington Place We have organised a debate about the future of UCU for Thursday 17 January. Two of the candidates for UCU Vice President, Jo McNeill (Liverpool) and Vicky Blake (Leeds) [1], will set out their aims for UCU and…
The mismanagement of the USS pension scheme led to the largest strike in the history of Higher Education in 2018 Please sign and forward this petition calling for the Chief Executive of USS, Mr Bill Galvin, to resign. USS has been consulting on USS proposals to increase contributions from employers and employees by approximately 40% –…
Advice regarding the “Uniforum Service Effectiveness Survey” [sic] sent out by Cubane Consulting on behalf of Rex Knight (VP Operations) Yesterday, staff received an invitation to participate in the “Uniforum Service Effectiveness Survey” [sic] sent out by Cubane Consulting on behalf of Rex Knight (VP Operations). (There is a unique link in the email so…
We are becoming increasingly concerned about overcrowding on the Bloomsbury campus particularly by reports of over crowding in Lecture theatres and teaching rooms. In centrally bookable rooms the maximum occupancy number of the room is the safe number for room occupancy. This is in large part determined by the egress capacity of the room as well as neighbouring…
A reminder that there will be an Extraordinary General Meeting of UCL UCU this Weds 31 October, 13.00-14.00 in 25 Gordon Street Maths 500 LT. The meeting will discuss the results of the recent ballot on our pay and equality campaign in anticipation of the forthcoming Special Higher Education Sector Conference (SHESC – see appendix 2) which will…
USS is currently consulting its members over proposed changes to your pension scheme. These are potentially very serious detrimental changes for every member. The deadline for the employee consultation is 2 November. In this email we review three scenarios that are now in front of us. At the end, we indicate how colleagues might wish to respond to the…
An Extraordinary General Meeting will be held Wednesday 31 October at 1pm (venue TBC) This is a calling notice for an Extraordinary General Meeting for Wednesday 31 October, 1pm to discuss the outcome of the pay and equality ballot and any other urgent business. (Location to be confirmed). Members voted for strike action and action short of a…
Open meeting for all Postgraduate Teaching Assistants being organised by UCL UCU UCL UCU is organising a meeting for all new and returning postgraduate teaching assistants to discuss their issues at UCL. 5:30-7pm, Wednesday 10 October.Room 433 in Torrington Place, 1-19, UCL. This meeting is open to all PGTAs at UCL. Attendees will receive information…
This is advance notice of a ‘town hall’ meeting called by UCL UCU on 17 October to discuss the ‘TOPS’ restructuring measures that are planned to lead to the relocation of over 500 Professional Services staff from UCL, and the proposed introduction of outsourcing company Unitemps. Meeting: TOPS – restructuring, outsourcing, and relocating PS staff…
