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Equality updates

Latest updates from UCU's campaigning for equality for all.

  • 3 December 2024

    UCU statement following Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer's anti-immigration turn.

  • 12 February 2024

    Dear colleagues,  Following UCU's 2022 Equality Pay Audit which revealed a gender and ethnicity pay gap, as well as underrepresentation of Black, women and disabled…

  • 24 January 2024

    UCU has responded to the the Home Office consultation on non-statutory guidance on safe access zones around abortion clinics. We have serious concerns about the…

  • 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…

  • 5 July 2023

    UCU had its largest ever delegation to TUC LGBT+ conference this year, with a diverse group of 20 people from a wide range of branches taking part. UCU had its…

  • 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…

  • 13 June 2023

    UCU is shocked and alarmed by the decision to sentence a mother-of-three to 28 months in prison for using abortion pills to end her own pregnancy. This case highlights…

  • 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…

  • 24 June 2022

    UCU Scotland has responded to the consultation on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. The Scottish Parliament's Equality, Human Rights and Civil Justice…

  • 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…