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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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20 May 2009
Croydon College will be brought to a standstill on 20 May in a row over its failure to honour a pay deal agreed over four years ago. Classes will be cancelled and…
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15 May 2009
City College Birmingham could be brought to a grinding halt as staff are gearing up for strike action in their campaign to save 74 jobs. The college has threatened…
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13 May 2009
The six further education unions, ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE*, representing 250,000 staff working in colleges in England have formally rejected an offer…
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1 May 2009
UCU today welcomed the decision by Doncaster College, to abandon plans for mass redundancies. Over a 150 jobs look to have been saved, just days after the principal,…
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29 April 2009
UCU has called for a public investigation into the way Doncaster College is run, after its principal, Rowland Foote, was suspended. The union has written to the…
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28 April 2009
Members of UCU from Lambeth College marched through Brixton today in protest at heavier workloads and worsening conditions of service. Over 200 people took to the…
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22 April 2009
UCU today welcomed increased investment in further education in the budget. However, the union said the government needed to recognise that quality training to…
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21 April 2009
UCU today called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, to find 'much needed' extra funding for further education in this year's budget. In a joint…
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15 April 2009
UCU has today welcomed the news that the Welsh Assembly Government is to inject £8.9m into the FE sector in Wales to support those colleges and school sixth forms…
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8 April 2009
Responding to an announcement by Assembly Government Ministers of additional funding for further education, UCU said it was a 'victory for the campaigning and hard…
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