Industrial action at the University of Brighton
Members of the University and College Union, UCU, have voted 3 to 1 in support of industrial action over pay and a number of related issues. The union has...
Ballot Results
Dear Colleagues, The results of the pay and USS ballots in higher education branches have been published and employers have been informed. In both ballots, the results amount to...
Universities, antisemitism and Jeremy Corbyn
What do universities have to do with the row about antisemitism in the Labour Party? And what does any of it have to do with the UCU? Central to...
GTVO – Pay and Equalities: (Not!) Enough Already
A video recording of a UCU colleague from the University of Sheffield, Robyn Orfitelli....
Youth Strike 4Climate – UCU Brighton 20th of September
20th Sept we are supporting At its recent congress the TUC made a historic call to its 6.5 million members for a 30-minute workday campaign action to coincide with the...
General Secretary Jo Grady visiting on 24th Sept
Save the date: 24th Sept 1-3pm @ University of Sussex, Arts 02 Building We are thrilled to be co-hosting General Secretary Dr Jo Grady at the University of Sussex...
June 2019
A new General Secretary and a new dynamism at UCU Congress The text of all the motions and their outcomes can be found at https://www.ucu.org.uk/Congress2019 UCU’s annual Congress took place...
Feb 2019
11th February UCU elections Hustings Elections for the highest lay office of the UCU are now open. You should shortly be receiving ballot papers for the election of the...
Jan 2019
18th January The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched an inquiry to understand the types of racial harassment experienced at publicly funded higher education institutions (HEIs), such as...
Nov 2018
22nd November UCU update on the Workload Agreement implementation 12th November Report on the UCU Special Higher Education Sector Conference held in Manchester on 7th November on the pay...