We are launching a strike pledge! By signing a pledge, you will be helping to build a strong strike at Cambridge. Once a majority of balloted CUCU members sign the pledge, we’ll deliver the pledge to University management through a…
Solidarity with Fossil Free Research campaign
Cambridge UCU stands in solidarity with students and academics who occupied the BP Institute in Cambridge on Tuesday 17 May. BP is one of the oil and gas majors revealed by the Guardian recently to be planning huge investments in…
How do we win a better deal for Cambridge researchers? Open meeting 24 March
Cambridge UCU researchers invite researchers at the University of Cambridge to join us for an open online ‘town hall’ event to discuss why the current disputes over pay, equality and pensions matter to research staff. What are the problems YOU…
Cambridge Student-Staff Solidarity Assembly – 2 March
Calling all staff and students at the University of Cambridge! Frustrated by the University’s response to the USS pensions dispute? Looking to learn more about the UCU’s demands over low pay, inequality and casualisation in Higher Education Realising that workload…
Solidarity with the student occupation of Sidgwick site
As members of staff at the University of Cambridge and its Colleges, we send a message of solidarity to students at the University of Cambridge who have occupied a lecture block at the Sidgwick Site this week in support of…
Rally for pay and pension justice: 22 February
In person (Cambridge) and online Assemble 12 noon – King’s Parade outside Great St Mary’s Cambridge – Tuesday 22 February Supported by Cambridge UCU, Open University UCU, Cambridge SU Across the country, university staff are on strike demanding an end…
Students stand with striking staff: Cambridge SU Grad president
We kicked off our first day of strike action with lively pickets at Sidgwick Site, Downing, Senate House and Education, followed by a march to rally outside Great St Mary’s Church, where strikers and supporters were addressed by CUCU Pensions…
Branch motion: Deductions for ASOS, Four Fights and USS disputes
Motion passed at quorate general meeting, 1pm Monday 17 January 2022 CUCU notes: 1. That CUCU members responded positively to the national strikes last term – many members signed up to picket and we were joined by large numbers of…
A Joint Statement on USS from Cambridge UCU, the University of Cambridge, Oxford UCU, and the University of Oxford
On 3 August, Cambridge UCU and Cambridge University, along with Oxford UCU and Oxford University, announced a joint statement, calling for exploration of alternative scheme designs for USS (including an evaluation of conditional indexation). The focus is on the long-term question…
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…