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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

UCU has a massive mandate: now what?

by: Dave Hitchcock On 24 October the results of two national, aggregate ballot campaigns were announced, and if you're reading this you probably know the results, but just in case: We have a turnout of 58% (57.8) of all eligible members for the pay and conditions ballot.

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

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