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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
We declare!
Dave Harvie discusses how to make strike reporting a force for disruption against the employers.
Trans healthcare in England: a call for solidarity (by Sunday 4th Dec)
By Tilly Fitzmaurice
Dr Ruth Pearce, a trans researcher, trans healthcare expert and former member of the NHS England Gender Programme Board, has recently called for feminist researchers, practitioners and educators to show solidarity with young trans people in England. As an activist community with unconditional support for trans rights
The Longer the Picket Line...
Next week, many UCU members will be taking strike action for the first time. Here, some UCU Commons members share what's worked for them in previous rounds of action: what's helped to recruit new members, start conversations with colleagues and students, and simply kept us warm
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