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5 April 2024
Staff at the University of Kent have backed strike action in defence of jobs. The result comes as the person in charge of the cuts, vice-chancellor Karen Cox, announces…
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5 April 2024
A strike ballot will open on Monday 15 April at Sheffield Hallam University, announced UCU today UCU has accused the university of pushing ahead with expensive…
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5 April 2024
UCU has attacked the government for cutting funding to creative arts courses.
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28 March 2024
UCU today announced staff at Goldsmiths University have overwhelmingly voted to take industrial action in a fight to stop the sacking of more than one in 6 academic…
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23 June 2021
The government must immediately halt devastating plans to half grants for university arts subjects in England, said seven trade unions.
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13 February 2021
In her first speech to UCU's annual congress as general secretary, Jo Grady set out the challenges workers in prison, adult, further and higher education are facing…
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26 January 2021
UCU members overwhelmingly backed a vote of no confidence in the University of Leicester's vice chancellor and executive board on Monday (25 January), in response…
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10 November 2020
UCU has warned the University of East London (UEL) of potential industrial action over the university's decision to push ahead with compulsory job cuts.
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16 October 2020
The University of Central Lancashire is threatening to sack up to 69 staff. The university wrote to UCU to say staff would face the axe by March 2021. The university…
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2 October 2020
Manchester Metropolitan locked down 1,700 students on Friday night Last Friday night, Manchester Metropolitan University told around 1,700 students to self-isolate…
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