Project: JNCHES vs Inflation
We're happy to announce a new UCU Commons Project: JNCHES vs. Inflation. We've extracted pay spine point data going back to 2005 and plotted it in a number of ways against several inflation measures.
Bijan Parsia
Some TechyTools for Congress
We have some reorganized digitally enhanced versions of UCU's second CBC report with options for navigation and note taking including a copyable Google Doc.
NEC Late Motion: Solidarity with our Jewish members and communities
Update: The motion passed overwhelmingly (2 no votes). UCU issued a statement which we sure was forthcoming regardless of the success of this motion. We look forward to the first NEC after Congress to explore how UCU can be more systematic about its combating anti-semistism work.
In response to
A New Strategic Approach
This is a (lightly edited) discussion paper submitted by Bijan Parsia for discussion at the 15 December 2023 Special HEC. Such papers are length-limited thus some of the discussion is less fleshed out than would be helpful. Such fleshing shall come in future posts.
Note: this is not a
Nothing about Ukraine, without Ukraine
This post is by Bijan Parsia, NEC Disabled Members Rep (UK) who was a NEC UK wide elected rep during Congress 2023. It is not a UCUCommons document but reflects a strong informal consensus view.
First, this post is not a full an analysis of UCU Congress 2023 motion 5:
Student Distribution Recap and Update
This post was by Bijan Parsia with lots of corrections and feedback by various UCUCommons members.
As #UCURising progresses, I’ve seen several people raise the critical issue of student distribution in HE. This is particularly important in the pay and conditions dispute, because, for example, student-starved programmes face
Support Letter Sent!
A quick follow up from your friendly tech admin (Bijan Parsia) about the support letter for Emma Battell Lowman's motion.
First a huge thank you to all who signed and commented (even if you didn't sign). We got 107 signatures (including Emma's) from UCU
From Massive Mandate to Effective Action
Emma Battell Lowman
Short cut to the support letter which I'd like you to sign.
We, UCU, have won a historic mandate for Industrial Action through the #UCURising campaign and now have the power to act collectively in both the USS and the Pay and Conditions dispute. Every
We're Fighting The Chaos
Note: This post discusses some matters from the UCU HEC meeting on 12 May 2022. Most of that meeting is highly confidential, but we checked with the chair that it was ok to share this bit and she confirmed that it was fine as it is not directly and immediately
Chaotic Recruitment, Student Distribution, and the Four Fights
For background on this topic, please see our TL;DR.
We have a motion about student distribution for the 29 April, 2022 HEC, commonly framed as student number controls. There's an open letter you can sign and you can optionally provide some info for preliminary research on the