Last week, Cambridge UCU passed a motion to support the national union’s call for universities to halt plans for reopening campuses or risk a major public health crisis. The union is calling for all teaching to take place online unless it…
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Statement on A-Level Results
Thursday saw another entirely foreseeable fiasco from the government as students in England received their A-level results. Ignoring teachers’ assessments in favour of an obviously flawed algorithm was always going to penalise students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and the stories that…
Launching our Summer Campaign: CUCU Conversations
We are living through uncertain times. Over the past few months, many of us have been working flat out to deal with the challenges of lockdown; many of us are anxious about our working arrangements, career prospects, and the potential…
Papers for HR Committee: Time to Think Again
On 7 July, the University’s HR Committee will be meeting to discuss the cuts announced by the Vice Chancellor for 2020/1. We don’t get a seat on the HR Committee, but we’ll be there in spirit, thanks to two papers…
Supervision Work is Real Work: Launching the College Anti-Casualisation Campaign
Cambridge UCU and the Graduate Union have been campaigning in recent years to improve the rights and conditions of casualised teachers in the collegiate university, including through the CUCU anti-casualisation claim in 2018, the negotiations led by CUCU with the…
Remembering Jenny Marchant
It is with the greatest sadness that we have to announce the death of Jenny Marchant, Cambridge UCU’s branch president. Jenny passed away last Sunday surrounded by members of her family after being diagnosed last year with ovarian cancer. Jenny’s…
Black Lives Matter
Cambridge UCU stands in solidarity with all those protesting against police brutality and white supremacy and for Black Liberation in the United States. We similarly condemn the ongoing and repeated killings of Black people by British police and the violent…
Threats to Working Conditions: Cambridge UCU’s Response
At the end of last week, Stephen Toope sent an email to all staff outlining contingency plans that could see a serious erosion in working conditions for Cambridge University staff. These plans include: an extended hiring freeze, delays to leave…
Anti-Casualisation: Letter to the VC
Earlier today, our Anti-Casualisation Officers wrote to the Vice Chancellor, asking the University to do everything in its power to help out fixed-term staff reaching the end of their contracts in these unprecedented conditions. With no sign of how long…
CUCU branch motion on COVID-19
This motion was passed at our branch meeting on Monday 9 March, we’ll be contacting members via a branch email in the next few days to gather feedback on your specific concerns about issues you or colleagues are facing in…