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5 March 2008
A lecturer at a further education college in Northern Ireland has won an employment tribunal ruling that she was treated unlawfully because her work is part-time.…
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5 March 2008
UCU has welcomed the final report of The Commission for Disabled Staff in Lifelong Learning, published today. Kate Heasman, equality official at UCU, represented…
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4 March 2008
UCU's campaign for a better deal for FE staff has received a major boost after the National Union of Teachers agreed to join forces as part of a wider campaign…
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4 March 2008
UCU is to ballot members in all Welsh further education colleges for strike action and non-strike sanctions in a dispute over pay with the Welsh college employers'…
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4 March 2008
UCU has this week responded to the Conservative's plans for prison reform. While welcoming their focus on the rehabilitation of offenders, the union defended the…
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11 February 2008
Commenting on draft government guidelines to tackle potential violent extremism in UK colleges, UCU welcomed the fact that the document was still at the consultation…
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8 February 2008
UCU has joined the TUC by calling on the UK government to support a bill giving agency workers legal equal treatment rights at work, and save temporary workers…
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31 January 2008
UCU this week responded to the government's plans for a major expansion of apprenticeships and reforms of welfare policies to encourage the inactive to get new…
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30 January 2008
UCU, with other unions in further education, has submitted a joint pay claim for 2008-9 calling for a 6% increase or £1500, whichever is the greater. UCU members…
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25 January 2008
UCU today hit out at government plans to change the way university courses are funded. Responding to news that the Higher Education Funding Council for England…
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