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Congress and NEC sub-committee election results, 25-26

We are delighted that several UCU Commons members have been elected as chairs and members of NEC subcommittees for 2025–26 (as voted by the new formation of NEC) and to Congress-elected roles. These are: NEC subcommittees Recruitment, Organising and Campaigns Committee (ROCC) Chair: Mark Pendleton Member: Matilda Fitzmaurice Equality

NEC Report from Friday 20th June

By UCU Commons NEC members Headlines: * NEC agrees changes to membership of Equality Standing Committees to include non-employed postgraduate members * Calendar of meetings and allocation of unheard Congress motions agreed for 2025–26 * Motions passed in support of the arts, anti-racism, anti-ableism and researching the links between casualisation and equality

HEC Report from Friday 4th April 2025

By UCU Commons NEC members Headlines: * JNCHES: moves towards joint lobbying of the government over the sector’s financial crisis * Motion condemning the OfS investigation of the University of Sussex passed Greylisting of Brunel University There was a proposal for UCU to apply the sanction of ‘greylisting’ (also known as

Take action now against the Supreme Court ruling and for trans rights

By UCU Commons A core value of UCU Commons is equality and dignity for everyone; but particularly for transgender and nonbinary people whose rights and wellbeing have faced increasing attacks over the last few years. This has culminated in a supreme court case, brought by For Women Scotland and backed

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