On 1 September, Varsity published an article quoting from a letter from a group of students who are concerned about the impact of the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) on finalists in particular. The letter urged Cambridge UCU to pause…
Supervision Boycott 2023: Student FAQs
Why are supervisors boycotting? Our boycott has two aims: fair pay and contracts. We get paid around a tenner per hour to take undergraduate supervisions. Depending on preparation time, we sometimes even get paid below minimum wage. Our time and…
Boycott of College Supervisions launched: how you can help the campaign win
Justice4CollegeSupervisors is a campaign of Cambridge UCU demanding fair working conditions for supervisors of undergraduate students. Supervisions take place in small-groups and are the backbone of the Cambridge undergraduate education. 90% of undergraduate supervisors are not on payroll –…
Joint statement from Cambridge University and Cambridge UCU on the current dispute
22 May 2023 It is regrettable that the national pay and conditions dispute has reached a point whereby a marking and assessment boycott has been called. Very sadly, and as things stand, it is likely to have a significant impact…
AGM and Executive Committee elections 2023
Our Cambridge UCU Annual General Meeting is set for 1pm on Friday, 23rd June 2023 on Zoom. Further details and agenda will follow in due course. Please make a note of this date and join your UCU colleagues for this…
Support the Marking and Assessment Boycott – a guide for members
Thursday April 20 marks the start of our national mandate to undertake a Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB). The basic principle of the MAB is that members should refuse to carry out any duties relating to marking and assessment. Obviously,…
Joint statement from the Office for Intercollegiate Services and the Cambridge UCU Justice For College Supervisors Campaign following the meeting on 30/03/2023
On March 30th we had a productive meeting. We agreed on the following points. OIS is researching how the current intercollegiate recharge rate would relate to agreed-upon national pay spines and multipliers, so as to present to Colleges a proposal…
CUCU Researchers Campaign launched
Last week we launched the new Cambridge UCU Researchers Campaign, to contest the increasing casualisation of researchers at the University and the Colleges. Early career researchers are often offered repeated extensions of insecure fixed-term contracts, even when it would be…
Strike plans for 20-22 March – Help us build the union on research-intensive sites
Our three strike days scheduled for 20-22 March will focus on research-intensive sites across the University. We will be at Addenbrookes on Monday 20 March, Downing site and nearby departments on 21 March and West Cambridge on 22 March. In…
Love unions? Join us for a solidarity lunch on 16 Feb
Cambridge UCU invites you to an afternoon for celebration and organisation UCU members at universities across the country are on strike to stop cuts to our pay and pensions, against excessive workloads, inequality and lack of job security. Join us…