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...
Sept 2018
26th September Voting in Democracy Commission Elections. The coordinating committee has agreed to endorse the UCULeft recommendiations (see here) which aim to ensure that left candidates committed to greater union democracy...
Aug 2018
9th August Solidarity with Bookmarks. The Coordinating Committee of the UCU at the University of Brighton offers its support to Bookmarks and its staff in the wake of the...
March 2018
15th March Brighton members support staff and students at demonstration at Sussex today Following overwhelming rejection of ‘deal’ the strike continued this week with a demonstratio by staff and students...
Feb 2018
22nd Feb Solidarity with USS strike. Great to be with our banner to show solidarity with our colleagues at Sussex striking in defence of the USS pension. Great to...
Jan 2018
31st January Why our colleagues in Pre-92 institutions are right to be striking – see letter to the Guardian here. The support we can give to colleagues in the pre-92...
Dec 2017
23rd December Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year. 2017 was a tough year but over two disputes we successfully defended our negotiating rights, AC3 to AC4...