Are you on a casual contract? Underpaid and overworked?
Fed up of feeling alone, vulnerable and underrepresented?
Worried about the future of Higher Education and Further Education?
Want to do something about it?
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Blog site for UCU at UeL
Are you on a casual contract? Underpaid and overworked?
Fed up of feeling alone, vulnerable and underrepresented?
Worried about the future of Higher Education and Further Education?
Want to do something about it?
(more…)
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS?
Did you know that if you have worked as an HPL at UEL for 4 semesters in a row (2 years) you have employment rights?! This includes proper notice that your employment will be ending and the right to be redeployed to another position
if suitable work is available. (more…)
The emergency joint union meeting over the threatened redundancies in ACE was a well-attended meeting with approximately 100-120 people attending. The meeting passed the resolution below and began a petition to protest against the redundancies. Please sign the petition if you have not already done so. (more…)
Your job is at risk.
Five students occupying Sussex University against privatisation & cuts and in solidarity with the HE strike have been suspended. Sussex’s Students’ Union has condemned the suspensions and asks everyone to sign this petition in support of the five: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/professor-michael-farthing-vice-chancellor-of-sussex-university-to-immediately-retract-the-suspension-of-five-sussex-students-which-began-on-the-4th-december#
For more information and a statement from the students themselves, please see: http://sussexagainstprivatization.wordpress.com
A UCU rally will be held after picketing on the day of the strike, the details are:
Steve
UCU branch secretary