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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:

The Consultation: HEC Recommends, Members Decide

At its meeting on 30 March, HEC passed motions tabled by UCU Commons members (those numbered 2 and 3 in this blog) and began a process of consulting UCU members as a whole on the proposed interim resolutions in both the pay and conditions dispute with UCEA and the USS

Gender-Based Violence: A Call to Action for FE and HE

Content note: this blog post refers to gender-based violence and related issues throughout. The contact details of some organisations that support people who have experience of gender-based violence are listed at the foot of this post. While standing for NEC on a platform of anti-gender based violence

Moving On: the 17 March HEC Decision and Next Steps

In this blog, as members of UCU Commons on the Higher Education Committee (HEC), our priorities are to outline our position on the questions that were before HEC on 17 March and to suggest some ways forward. But we also understand that there is significant demand for a clear and

The Offer, And The Details In

On 15 March 2023 UCU officials wrote to all members in the union outlining a composite offer finalised and made by two employer associations: UUK and UCEA. This offer was communicated to members in a range of ways, but first through a "podcast" format, and then through a

NEC election results

UCU Commons is proud of our campaign and candidates for NEC, and delighted to see so many of our slate elected.

A huge thank you.

Dear subscribers, And there we have it. This is the last of our campaign posts for this election period, so we thought we all needed and deserved a timeline cleanse. Enter Albert and Isaac, David Harvie’s purrrfect ginger boys (sorry!) The NEC and national officer elections close tomorrow, Wednesday