Equality updates
Latest updates from UCU's campaigning for equality for all.
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3 December 2024
UCU statement following Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer's anti-immigration turn.
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29 September 2023
Refugees and migrants span across all intersections of identity and experience. They face a range of institutional and societal barriers and challenges in a world…
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3 July 2023
UCU unequivocally stands with our brothers and sisters in France protesting against police brutality. Social justice must be achieved in order to obliterate the…
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21 April 2023
Fraternal greetings to the trade unions and civilian groups in Sudan. With great despondency and tremendous concern, we have followed the current catastrophic descent…
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10 June 2022
There was an alarming report in March 2022, that the Hackney police force put a 15-year-old young Black girl through the ordeal of a strip and search at the instigation…
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7 March 2022
Statement from the UCU black members' standing committee Not long ago, the whole world was in uproar over the brutal murder of George Floyd in the USA. This murder…
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16 July 2021
UCU condemns the racist abuse which has been directed towards Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho and other members of the England national football squad…
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31 March 2021
Responding to the final report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparity, the UCU has supported a joint statement with NUS and sister unions which describes…
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18 June 2020
Yet another black person has been killed at the hands of the police in the USA. The events taking place there are the latest bloody chapter of centuries of racism…
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13 March 2020
UCU has been concerned to learn of a recent incident on social media where a link was made between a Jewish member, Rosa Freedman, and Holocaust denial. UCU condemns…
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