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Anti-Casualisation: Letter to the VC

March 31, 2020 adminUncategorized

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…

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CUCU branch motion on COVID-19

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 AnneUncategorized

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…

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Strikes yield first step towards Recognition

March 9, 2020 adminUncategorized

On Monday, the eighteenth day of our strike action, the Executive Committee of Cambridge UCU met with the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Stephen Toope. We made it clear that the Vice Chancellor urgently needs to reassure his…

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CUCU statement in solidarity with Cambridge students’ occupation

March 3, 2020 AnneUncategorized

Cambridge UCU executive sends a message of solidarity to students at the University of Cambridge who have occupied the Old Schools administration building this morning in support of our strike. This follows an open meeting where hundreds of students questioned…

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Major Breakthrough in Fight Against Casual Contracts for Hundreds of University Staff Achieved by Cambridge UCU

February 20, 2020February 24, 2020 adminUncategorized

After 2 years of campaigning, Cambridge UCU (CUCU) applauds a major milestone on the road to more secure work for hundreds of staff across the university on the eve of historic strike action. During a meeting to discuss the use…

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Why We Must Strike Now

February 19, 2020 adminUncategorized

On Thursday we will go out on strike for another fourteen days. This is a hard decision for us all. Over the last few weeks we’ve heard many of your concerns expressed to us via our reps and activists. We…

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Statement on XR Action in Cambridge

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 adminUncategorized

An update from our Green Rep Rasha Rezk, on behalf of the Cambridge UCU Executive Committee: Beginning this weekend, and continuing for the following week, Extinction Rebellion (XR) Cambridge and XR Youth Cambridge will be staging a series of disruptive…

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Pledge to Raise the Bar for casualised staff

October 13, 2019November 10, 2019 adminCasualisation, Uncategorized

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Cambridge UCU Joins the Global Climate Strike

September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 adminGreen, Uncategorized

On Friday 20 September, Cambridge UCU joined millions of striking students and workers across the world as part of the largest global day of action around the climate crisis. More than 3000 youth strikers, students, academics, workers and community members…

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We are committed to seeking a negotiated settlement on pay and the four pay related elements and we are happy to meet again at Acas once the unions have completed their consultation processes.

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unisoninhe UNISON in Higher Education @unisoninhe ·
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Whether or not any action goes ahead at any particular time will be subject to a democratic decision at that time.

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unisoninhe UNISON in Higher Education @unisoninhe ·
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Without a mandate for industrial action our power is significantly weakened, so the unions will not give up their right to run ballots to obtain that mandate up front for a period of 12 months, and believe it is unreasonable of UCEA to expect them to do so.

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The requirements of the TU Act 2016 on trades unions are onerous and require trade unions to give advance notice of ballots, run postal ballots, be open to challenge on the details of those ballots, achieve a 50% turnout threshold and a positive majority vote in favour of action,

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unisoninhe UNISON in Higher Education @unisoninhe ·
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The joint unions wish to make it clear that we will not agree to any cessation of industrial action up front for the next 12 months and that the unions and UCEA must respect our trade union democratic processes.

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