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Special HEC Meeting Report, 12th December
By UCU Commons HEC members
Headlines
* HEC were warned that an HEC vote for an industrial action ballot could jeopardise the progress in negotiating improvements to casualisation, workloads, and inequalities in the sector (i.e. the key non-pay elements of our claim).
* In spite of this warning, HEC voted for
Ballot 2025: Questions for HEC Members
We'd like to know why HEC members voted as they did.
UCU Commons members not on UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) have quite a few questions we’d like to ask those HEC members who voted for a UK-wide ballot on industrial action last week. Below are
Interim Statement from HEC Members on the 12th December HEC Decision
This is an interim statement by UCU Commons HEC members in response to HEC’s decision on 12th December to call an industrial action ballot for spring 2025.
This decision to call an IA ballot amounts, in our view, to a fundamental misuse of member energy, time, commitment and goodwill
Report from NEC meeting: 15th November 2024
Headlines:
* NEC votes down UCU’s List of Priorities for 2024/25
* NEC votes for hybrid congress - but only just
* Bad behaviour in meetings no longer tolerated - thanks to excellent chairing
* NEC votes for a review of survey of members’ experiences of racism - finally
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UCU Commons HEC report, 27 September 2024
By UCU Commons NEC members
Headlines:
– HEC to consult members on pay and pay-related offers, with recommendation;
– HEC rejects call to research high levels of member disengagement;
– A special HEC to be convened to discuss strategy before Christmas.
HEC met for the first time after the summer recess on 27
Apartheid and the Boycott of South African Universities.
First in a series on Universities, Solidarity, and International Boycotts.
Universities, Solidarity, and International Boycotts.
Part I: Apartheid and the Boycott of South African Universities
By Dion Georgiou
Introduction
This is the first in a series of blogs about international movements to boycott the universities of nation states culpable of gross oppression of people within or beyond their borders, as part of a wider coordinated
UCU Commons TUC report
Photo: Hussam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, speaking at TUC. Image: TUC
This year, UCU Commons member and NEC women’s rep Jo Edge was part of UCU’s delegation to the Trade Union Congress (TUC), and here shares some information and reflections on the three-day event held in