April 2019
27th April Stand Up To Racism (SUtR) To which UCU is affiilated, has called a Day of Action Against UKIP for next Saturday, 27th April. UKIP is standing candidates in...
March 2019
26th March Following the considerable opposition to the termination of Yaa Asare’s contract We are happy to report that our fellow member has been assured of a permanent contract....
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...
June 2018
25th June UCU NEC has accepted that the Recall Congress of UCU will now go ahead and debate motions 10 and 11. See report here 22nd June Brief report of SHESC here...
May 2018
31st May UCU Congress report Colleagues, Please find here my second report from UCU Congress. It will be circulated to delegates on Friday as the UCU Left response to the statement...
April 2018
20th April Dispute over breach of promotions procedure. See full statement here and look out for forthcoming branch meetings....