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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

Effective Industrial Action: What Does It Look Like?

This is clearly a crucial juncture for UCU members in higher education, and UCU Commons members were preparing a blog on the choices before us when the General Secretary issued a report containing very serious and substantial proposals for the future of the Four Fights dispute on Wednesday 13 April.

UCU Election Candidates’ Statement on Academic Freedom and Trans Inclusion

This statement was drafted in February 2020 by UCU Commons members David Harvie and Mark Pendleton, along with Annie Goh and Stan Papoulias, who were standing in that year's elections to NEC. They invited other candidates to sign: a further 30 did so. You can see the original

UCU Commons Blogs: 2021

summarized by Ben Pope It’s been just over a year since we published our first post, which marked the transition of our community from an informal discussion group to a fully fledged organising effort to bring about the change that we want to see within UCU and in post-16

UCU Commons Candidates for Equalities Standing Committees

A commitment to intersectional equalities work is central to UCU Commons, as set out in the first of our core values, where we state that we are for equality in all its forms. We are unequivocally committed to making our union and our workplaces trans-inclusive. We are anti-racist, anti-colonial, and

TL;DR: Why did 'the UCU leadership' decide [for a short ballot | disaggregation | bundled ballots | ballot timing | …]?

by Bijan Parsia Reading time: over 10 minutes (3,200 words) For a (much) shorter Twitter thread going over the timeline please see Rhiannon Lockley’s thread. She also voted differently than I did, for the most part. Please don’t debate their decisions over on their thread, but take

TL;DR: (Dis)Aggregation in UCU Balloting

This TL;DR explains some of the issues around aggregated vs. disaggregated UCU balloting.

Massaging the Figures on USS: How It's Done

Are you a vice chancellor concerned for your employees’ quality of life in retirement? Worried that your performance doesn’t match your pay packet? No, we thought not. But you may be anxious about the UCU ballots for industrial action, including the dispute over the proposed cuts to USS pensions.