Why join UCU? Almost 120,000 of your colleagues have chosen to belong to UCU - the largest union and most effective voice for people like you working in post-school education.
UCU is the largest post-school union in the world: a force working for education that your employer and the government cannot ignore. It understands the work you do, and the problems you face. And, of course, the more members UCU has, the more effective the support and protection we offer will be.
Whether you are an academic, lecturer, trainer, instructor, researcher, administrator, manager, computer staff, librarian or postgraduate from a university, college, prison, adult education or training organisation, UCU is the union for you.
Applications to join UCU are accepted subject to our Rules and such eligibility criteria as we have in place from time to time. We will contact you direct if we have any queries.
Medical Research Council staff and members wishing to take advantage of our joint membership arrangements with British Dietetic Association (BDA), British Orthoptic Society (BOS), Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), Royal College of Midwives (RCM), Royal College Of Nursing (RCN), Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (SCP), or theSociety of Radiographers (SOR)should complete and return the appropriate hard copy application form available below:
Freepost RSBT-SCKZ-BLCZ University and College Union Old Bakery Carlow Street London NW1 7LH
National Union of Teachers (NUT): The UCU and NUT have a partnership agreement.
The partnership agreement recognises the UCU as the organising union in higher education, further education and adult and continuing education (ACE) colleges and the NUT as the organising union in schools and other institutions educating school age children and in sixth form colleges.
The agreement provides for joint membership arrangements, so that UCU and NUT members who move to institutions where the other union is the organising union can stay in membership of their existing union but also take up joint membership of the organising union. Both unions encourage their members to take up joint membership in such circumstances.
Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph & Theatre Union (BECTU): Any members of BECTU engaged in the field of educational technology and employed on university academic or academic related scales may become a member of both associations on a dual membership basis. Eligible applicants should complete the standard UCU application and direct debit forms (online or using the form below), and pay the national and local subscription rates appropriate to the income derived from the university employment. They should then inform BECTU that they are joint members in order to benefit from the BECTU concessionary rate on their subscription (BECTU, 373-377 Clapham Road, London SW9 9BT; tel: 020 7346 0900).
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