All out for the Four Fights!
We now know the strike dates for our Four Fight battle. They are 1st, 2nd and 3rd December. If you missed the communication from the UCU General Secretary, you...
Strike: 1, 2, 3 December
UCU members at 58 Universities will take strike action on Wednesday 1, Thursday 2 and Friday 3 December 2021. This will run alongside Action Short of a Strike that...
Get Ready To Ballot
Brighton UCU Joint branch members’ meeting To discuss ballot preparations for the Four Fights & safety on campus Plus Jo McNeill from Liverpool University UCU Wednesday 13 October, 1-2pm, online Team Group-UCU...
Stop moaning and get on with your jobs
Stop moaning and get on with your jobs That’s the message of the university’s response to the joint union claim on Covid safety sent out on Friday. Rather than...
Email to all members, 30 April. Agile Working
A well-attended UCU members meeting on Wednesday discussed the University’s plans for post-pandemic ‘agile working’. Members heard that a draft University document seen by the trade unions proposes the following: All...
A Day in the Life of a Hotdesker
As told to UCU Brighton by a member of staff here, based on their experience at a different Higher Education Institution: 08.00 Check that you have everything you need...
Email to all members 25th March
Subject Leader role profile UCU has come to an agreement with the University over the role profile for the new university-wide role of Subject Leader. The criteria for this...
Email to all members. 22 March 2021
Job (in)security At last week’s Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC), UCU tried again to secure a guarantee from senior management that there would be no redundancies as a result of...
International Women’s Day
UPDATE 15 March 2021 A short update to note that the latest Gender Pay Gap figures at University of Brighton have just been released. The median pay gap has...
Email to all members. 1 March 2020
This is a report on recent meetings between UCU officers and senior management. Key Points The University has refused to guarantee there will be no compulsory redundancies as a...