Showing posts with label UCU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UCU. Show all posts
Monday, 9 October 2023

Waging war on staff: The narrative of a defeat.

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When the end of the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) was announced on 6 September, it was finally clear that the University and College ...
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Thursday, 2 December 2021

Staff working conditions are student learning conditions – more than just a slogan!

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Yet again, staff at universities across the UK are out on strike to defend their working conditions and pensions. Unsurprisingly, university...
Monday, 2 August 2021

The fight over USS pensions and the role of the so-called ‘independent’ pensions regulator

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Yet again, university employers (UUK) and the University and College Union (UCU) are at loggerheads over the future of the sector’s USS pens...
Wednesday, 29 January 2020

What’s worse than being a casual worker in academia? Being an outsourced casual worker in academia.

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In June 2019, the University and College Union (UCU) released a report,  Counting the costs of casualisation in higher education . It det...
Thursday, 1 June 2017

Another education is possible: The UCU Congress 2017!

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The annual Congress of the University and College Union (UCU) met in Brighton from 26 to 29 May to assess the situation of Further and Hi...
Monday, 2 February 2015

The Great Pension Robbery – UCU unravelling!

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Only three years after closing the final salary pension scheme of USS for new members of staff in pre-1992 Higher Education (HE) insti...
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