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15 July 2015
UCU said the government's plans would do nothing to improve workers' rights and exposed the government's plans as an attack on working people. UCU general secretary,…
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8 July 2015
UCU has condemned plans in today's budget to convert university maintenance grants for low income students into loans of up to £8,200 and has said it will oppose…
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8 July 2015
UCU last night won the coveted best campaign award at the TUC/Warners Trade Union Communications Awards. The union picked up the gong for its work in fighting against…
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19 June 2015
University and college staff are at breaking point, a trade union leader will tell a rally of anti-austerity protestors tomorrow (Saturday). Speaking at the People's…
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17 June 2015
Students should apply to university after they receive their exam results, says a new report released by UCU. Seven in 10 staff back a move to university applications…
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2 June 2015
A south London college failed to make reasonable adjustments for a blind employee, putting him at a "substantial disadvantage" to his peers, an employment tribunal…
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22 April 2015
Staff at Salford University will go on strike tomorrow in protest at the treatment of two colleagues who were put on forced gardening leave, sacked and refused…
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13 April 2015
UCU is one of the organisations backing a new poster campaign aimed at countering anti-immigrant rhetoric that can be found in some parts of the media and political…
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1 April 2015
UCU today welcomed a commitment from Labour party leader Ed Miliband that workers on zero-hours contracts would have the right to regular employment after 12 weeks.…
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25 March 2015
The business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee has warned that the benefits of a proposed transatlantic trade deal are "impossible to quantify". In…
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