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Report from NEC, 14th March 2025

By UCU Commons NEC members Key takeaways: * President remains steadfast on dealing with bad behaviour * NEC approves subs and budget to Congress * Usual bad faith questioning and undermining of the General Secretary A calendared meeting of the National Executive Committee, which deals with cross-sectoral business and is composed of some

HEC Report, Friday 7th March 2025

by UCU Commons NEC members A calendared meeting of HEC took place on Friday 7 March. The purpose of this meeting was partly to approve motions to go to the Higher Education Sector Conference, which takes place every year on the second day of UCU’s annual congress (at the

Report of Special HEC, 19th February 2025

By UCU Commons HEC members This was convened by a majority of HEC members requesting a meeting to: ‘Discuss matters and make decisions arising from the HEC meeting of 12 December 2024’. UCU Commons members on HEC were not part of this call; in fact, we had a HEC timetabled

Report of Special HEC, 31st January 2025

By UCU Commons HEC members This was convened to discuss the pay claim for 2025–26 (i.e. not last year’s pay claim, which was the reason for calling industrial action in December, so any discussions of that decision were necessarily off the table, as special HECs must be

Annual Meeting of Staff on Casualised Contracts: A Report

By Ben Pope Highly visible consequences of the structural funding crises in UK tertiary education are omnipresent at the moment, and the damage done to individuals and communities by this unfolding disaster will be with us for much longer. On Saturday 22 February, one of the regular, scheduled responses to