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UCL UCU
UCL University & College Union
UCU is the trade union representing university staff across the Higher Education sector
  • Four Fights

    National Pay Dispute – Ballot Opens – Get The Vote Out!

    Byadmin January 29, 2019February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • News

    UCU Election Debate: How can UCU win on pay and pensions?

    Byadmin January 15, 2019February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • News

    Sign the petition calling for the resignation of USS CEO Bill Galvin

    Byadmin December 17, 2018February 21, 2025

    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% –…

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  • News

    Proposed template response to the ‘Uniforum Service Effectiveness Survey’

    Byadmin November 6, 2018February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • H&S

    Advice on Overcrowding and Fire Safety

    Byadmin November 1, 2018February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • Congress and Sector Conferences | Four Fights

    General Meeting Wed 31 Oct, 1-2pm: Pay and Equality Ballot: Next Steps (25 Gordon Street Maths 500 LT)

    Byadmin October 30, 2018February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • USS

    Responding to the USS consultation

    Byadmin October 29, 2018February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • News

    Extraordinary General Meeting, Wed 31 October, to discuss pay and equality ballot and next steps

    Byadmin October 25, 2018February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • PGTAs

    Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA)? Know Your Rights at Work!

    Byadmin October 8, 2018February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • News

    Town-hall meeting on ‘TOPS’ 17 October

    Byadmin October 5, 2018February 21, 2025

    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…

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  • About
    • Representatives
      • Officers and Committee 2025-2026
      • Departmental Representatives
      • Health & Safety Representatives
    • Branch Policy
    • Branch Rules
      • Standing Orders
    • Contact Us
    • 10 Reasons to Join UCU
    • Join our networks
      • PGTA Network
      • Professional Services Staff Network
      • Research Staff Network
      • Teaching Staff Network
  • Meetings
    • What is a Motion
    • London Regional Committee
    • Congress
  • Advice
    • Requesting Help
    • Fixed-Term Staff
    • Health & Safety
    • National Pay Framework
    • Part-time
    • PGTAs
    • Redundancy
      • Redundancy Pay
    • Research Staff
    • USS Capita Data Breach
    • Workloads
  • Campaigns
    • Campaign Archive
      • Email Outsourcing – 2009
      • IHRA Definition
        • Academic Board Working Group Report on Racism and Prejudice
        • Can the IHRA working definition be implemented?
        • FAQs: 16 questions on UCL and the IHRA definition of anti-semitism
      • NO to a UCL City Academy
      • Pay 2006-08
      • Piloting Rank and Yank
      • Professorial Pay Review 2008
      • Redundancy Pay Dispute 2006-07
      • Statute 18
      • Teaching Fellows
        • Provost’s Response to Open Letter from Teaching Fellows – December 2019
        • SSEES TFs response to the Provost’s response
        • Message to all UCL Teaching Fellows – from Teaching Fellows in SSEES
      • Tuition Fees And Cuts 2010: UCL student occupation
      • UCL Cuts – 2009-10
      • USS and Four Fights
        • USS Frequently Asked Questions
        • Information for students
        • Q&A for Students
        • HE Industrial Action November 2019
        • Update on USS Crisis – July 2019
        • USS
      • Victimisation of Branch Secretary
        • Messages of support
      • White Paper Cuts – 2005/06
  • Get Involved!
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