We have submitted an official Gender Pay Gap (GPG) Claim to University HR, which asks the University to take meaningful action on closing the GPG. The E&D working group has been working hard to analyse the factors contributing to the…
Pay & Equality Ballot – Workload in HE
UCU are balloting members over pay and equality. Action to address excessive workload is part of the claim. Workload is growing, and excessive workloads already take a toll on physical and mental health of HE staff. We need to seriously…
Act NOW for a fairer university
UCU members and the wider university community are realising that the system is broken and that its time to look again at how universities work. That’s why we are balloting for strike action on job security, workload, gender equality and…
Why are we re-balloting on the Pay and Equality dispute?
UCU members at universities nationwide are being re-balloted on whether to take strike action in support of the 2018 national claim. As well as asking for a meaningful pay rise, instead of the sub-inflationary 2% offered by employers, UCU called…
Pay & Equality Ballot – Casualisation in HE
UCU are balloting members over pay and equality. Action for job security is part of the claim; to tackle the casual and precarious contracts that are rife in Universities.
Stamp out Casualisation in Cambridge – report
This report is the result of work of Cambridge UCU’s Anti Casualisation working group and outlines major issues TES staff and Hourly Paid Teaching staff have to contend with at the University of Cambridge. Download our report
Anti Casualisation Claim
This claim was submitted to the University in December 2018 and will be the subject of local negotiations to improve pay and conditions for casualised and precarious staff. Download our anti-casualisation claim
Motion on Solidarity with Brazilian Workers and Students
Motion on Solidarity with Brazilian workers and studentsCambridge UCU AGM – 30 Nov 2018 This branch notes: The recent election of Jair Bolsonaro, and the worrying turn towards fascism in Brazil that this represents. The alarming rise in violence…
Motion on Academic freedom, complicity with UAE-Saudi war and famine in Yemen
Motion on Academic freedom, complicity with UAE-Saudi war and famine in Yemen Cambridge UCU AGM – 30 Nov 2018 This branch notes: The life sentence recently handed down to Durham PhD student Matthew Hedges by a court in UAE…
Employer views on the JEP: UUK’s report on the latest consultation with USS employers
UUK have now published an analysis of responses to the employer consultation on the recommendations of the USS Joint Expert Panel. 127 employers responded, between them accounting for 94% of active USS members. (UUK says they “represent” those members, which is doubtful.) 118…