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London and Eastern Region Casual Vacancy: a blog post from our candidate
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Winning - As We See It
Blog post written by Robin Clarke, UCU Commons' candidate for the NEC casual vacancy in the London and the East region.
One of the things that I’ve noticed about UCU over the years is that we are not very good (actually we’re terrible) at celebrating our victories.
Let us introduce you to Rob.
Our candidate for the current NEC casual vacancy.
"Malignant shit funnels" and the sinister surveillance of university staff
Blog post by David Harvie
In May 2021 a tweet I had published eight months earlier resurfaced. On 11 September 2020, as the number of new coronavirus cases in the UK started spiking in what became the second wave, prompting a second national lockdown, I was party to a brief
Lessons from Our Higher Education Disputes in 2022/23
by Ben Pope
This blog starts from the premise that a healthy, effective trade union is a diverse one, in which there is always space for multiple points of view. There’s certainly no shortage of perspectives on the events of the past year in UCU’s higher education disputes,
Why we don’t want an immediate reballot: a view from the grassroots at the University of Edinburgh
Blog post by Sophia Woodman and Sophia Lycouris[*]
After several months of strikes and marking boycott, we are approaching the end of UCU’s current mandate for industrial action on 30 September without having resolved the Four Fights dispute. There are a number of views among members about how to
HEC and the Summer Ballot
by: several UCU Commons members of HEC who are not currently on holiday
On 1 August 2023, UCU members received an email from the General Secretary (GS), Jo Grady, informing them that the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) had not moved employers enough on our ongoing pay and conditions (‘Four
Anti-Casualisation at Congress 2023
By Ben Pope, NEC representative of casually employed members in HE until the close of Congress 2023 (with thanks to David Harvie, serving honorary treasurer since Congress closed)
UCU Congress 2023 took place in Glasgow on 27–29 May, and over 90 pages of motions were discussed over those three
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: