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Facing an existential crisis… we attack our own??

Blog post by Sophia Woodman. Perhaps I am hopelessly naïve, but I imagined that the conclusion of the election for the position of the UCU General Secretary would clear the air, and create conditions for our union to come together to fight what many agree is an existential crisis for

Union Elections 2024: UCU Commons Endorsements

UCU Commons is an organised group and stands a set of candidates in NEC and other union elections. Everyone who stands for election on our slate shares our values. Accordingly, we strongly endorse our candidates as first preferences when voting, and we only endorse other candidates in seats where no

UCU Elections 2024: Candidates Answer Our Questions

UCU Commons asked candidates standing in the forthcoming national elections a short series of questions about their plans and positions. We contacted all candidates standing for General Secretary, all candidates standing for Vice-President, and the three independent NEC candidates. Below are the responses we received, verbatim, ordered by surname. Ballots

A New Strategic Approach

This is a (lightly edited) discussion paper submitted by Bijan Parsia for discussion at the 15 December 2023 Special HEC. Such papers are length-limited thus some of the discussion is less fleshed out than would be helpful. Such fleshing shall come in future posts. Note: this is not a worked-out

MAB As Hell*: what are the conditions for a successful boycott?

*Our thanks go to UCU Commoner Sophia Woodman for the blog title! Note: this blog draws from experiences of the MAB that have been kindly shared by UCU Commons members. As such, the insights presented here represent partial and contingent perspectives and therefore make no claim to easy applicability under

London and Eastern region NEC casual vacancy: order your replacement ballot papers now!

Please vote Robin Clarke 1 and Michael Abberton 2

Winning - As We See It

Blog post written by Robin Clarke, UCU Commons' candidate for the NEC casual vacancy in the London and the East region. One of the things that I’ve noticed about UCU over the years is that we are not very good (actually we’re terrible) at celebrating our victories.