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…
EGM agenda includes USS JEP, pay and equality campaign and sector conferences Our first Extraordinary General Meeting of the autumn term was held on Wednesday 3 October from 1-2pm in Cruciform LT2. Download the powerpoint slides here. The agenda included: Colleagues are reminded to vote in the current industrial action ballot for our national claim on…
Following the line of the employer’s organisation UCEA, UCL have decided to impose a pay offer on staff which is a real-terms pay cut of 1. 2% against national RPI inflation (this does not include London regional inflation costs).This real-terms pay cut comes on top of a 14% real-terms pay cut over the last decade….
If you haven’t voted yet in UCU’s pay and equality e-ballot, please do so now! UCL UCU Executive Committee recommends you vote to reject the employers’ offer and to take action over pay and equality. You should have received several emails, most recently this morning, from UCU’s Head of HE Paul Bridge, entitled “Reminder: UCU…
Due to volume of business at our recent Annual General Meeting, we decided to call an additional Extraordinary General Meeting this Thursday 14 June, 13.00-14.00, Gordon Street (25) Maths 505. Agenda items for this meeting will decide the position our Branch takes towards a number of policy issues troubling staff. We will be considering motions on:…
A number of worrying developments in UCL’s policy on monitoring Tier 4 visa students have led colleagues and students to organise a special event to discuss these and what UCL staff can do. The UCL UCU Branch is wholeheartedly supporting this initiative. Please see details below. Please attend if these matters affect you, your students,…
A formal calling notice for the Annual General Meeting of UCL UCU which will be held on Thursday 7 June from 12:30-14:00 at The 52 Club, 52 Gower Street was sent to members on 10th May. A buffet and refreshments will be provided from 12:30. This is an excellent opportunity to meet UCU colleagues from across UCL, discuss…
