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Project: JNCHES vs Inflation

We're happy to announce a new UCU Commons Project: JNCHES vs. Inflation. We've extracted pay spine point data going back to 2005 and plotted it in a number of ways against several inflation measures.

Comparing the UCU Congress with the Quakers' Britain Yearly Meeting

By Michael Bartlett UCU and the Quakers are in some ways similar institutions. Both have thousands of members across the UK, both are arranged in an inverted pyramid of local branches supported by regional staff and a national organisation, and both have a few hundred sometimes under-appreciated employees who

UCU Commons newsletter #18, 26 May 2026

Welcome to the UCU Commons newsletter, a curated set of links and information about what's happening in UCU Commons, our union, and our sectors more generally. As always, we welcome any feedback you may have on this or any other matter. In today's issue: UCU congress

Some TechyTools for Congress

We have some reorganized digitally enhanced versions of UCU's second CBC report with options for navigation and note taking including a copyable Google Doc.

Report from HEC, 17 April 2026

UCU’s HEC met for the final time in its current incarnation on 17 April 2026, and you can read the draft minutes here. Highlights * For the first time in living memory (for UCU Commoners at least), HEC both got through all business and finished early * Another record: all six

NEC Report, 13th March 2026

This meeting was dominated by highly technical discussions of rule changes and we have not written all these up in detail. Only rule changes that attracted some degree of disagreement, or where the committee was in any way divided, have been included in this report. The NEC meeting began in

UCU Commons newsletter #16, 6 May 2026

Dear subscriber Welcome to the UCU Commons newsletter, a curated set of links and information about what's happening in UCU Commons, our union, and our sectors more generally. As always, we welcome any feedback you may have on this or any other matter. In today's issue:

NEC Late Motion: Solidarity with our Jewish members and communities

Update: The motion passed overwhelmingly (2 no votes). UCU issued a statement which we sure was forthcoming regardless of the success of this motion. We look forward to the first NEC after Congress to explore how UCU can be more systematic about its combating anti-semistism work. In response to

NEC Motion: Donation to the Good Law Project (GLP)

Since last April's Supreme Court ruling, the Good Law Project (GLP) has been fighting a legal campaign in defence of trans people's human rights in the UK. They have had several important victories so far: its legal challenge has forced the Equality and Human Rights Commission