Please review and sign the petitions below and please attend our UCL UCU General Meeting Wednesday 2 October, 13:00-14:00, Chadwick Building G08 Between May and July we were compelled to write to our members no fewer than seven times regarding the conduct of UCL senior management in their handling of a case that began when two senior…
Read UCU’s concerns and objections below. We encourage staff to participate in this consultation by the deadline of Friday 27th September UCL has initiated an all-staff consultation shortly before the start of term on two policies that are extremely important and have far-reaching implications for students and staff. The two policies incorporate some feedback from…
USS Background Briefing – September 2019 USS has demanded increased contributions from both employers and employees, citing a ‘deficit’ that is highly disputed. Last year the Board of USS Ltd triggered a ‘cost sharing’ rule that compels active employee members of the pension scheme (employees who pay into the scheme, not pensioners or deferred members) to…
We are seeing a number of cases where UCL HR refused to progress a grievance to a hearing, including one – particularly disturbingly – where a senior management team (SMT) member was a respondent. At the end of June we circulated a petition to the Provost to demand a commitment that staff complaints against UCL (‘grievances’) would…
This is a short message to update colleagues following Friday’s message about Statute 18. We are pleased to report that on Friday, lawyers acting for UCL finally agreed a suitable date which will allow the member to appear with a representative of their choosing in front of a UCL Statute 18 Disciplinary Tribunal, and allow their…
We are writing to highlight a developing and serious dispute between the UCU and UCL over the interpretation of Statute 18, the part of UCL’s Charter and Statutes intended to protect academic freedom at UCL (see Appendix below). Statute 18 places additional requirements on procedures that might lead to the dismissal of academic staff that…
Colleagues may have heard Prof Jane Hutton (Warwick) on BBC’s Today Radio Programme (link – minute 19:30-24:00). She was removed as a USS Trustee after asking questions about the valuation methodology of USS which she comments was “not of a quality I am happy with“. Prof Hutton says that The obvious question is if this is so, why…
On 2 May we wrote to you about an alarming case in College in which we said we believed Statute 18 protections of academic freedom were under threat. We reported again on 20 May that UCL had conceded that Academic Board would nominate one of the members of the Disciplinary Panel hearing the case. We continue to watch developments…
New calculations seen published on the HR website 23rd May 2019 should be ignored. It was brought to the attention of the UCL UCU Executive Committee on Thursday 23rd May 2019 that the UCL HR webpage containing redundancy calculations had been unilaterally changed, effectively substantially reducing redundancy entitlements. This change was made without informing, nor consulting…
Two weeks ago we wrote to you about an alarming case in which Statute 18 protections of academic freedom were under threat. We are writing to you today to update you on that matter ahead of today’s Special AB meeting to discuss the Visitor’s Report: Special Meeting of Academic Board 3-5pm, Monday 20 May Chemistry Auditorium XLG2 Christopher…
