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Leading news and reaction from UCU.
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13 April 2007
UCU has welcomed the appointment of Sir Reg Empey as Minister for employment and learning in the Northern Ireland Executive. UCU joint general secretary Sally Hunt…
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28 March 2007
Lecturers at Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges are set to take strike action again today. This is the seventh strike in the long running pay dispute…
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13 March 2007
Women have been elected in the two key posts of the newly formed UCU. This afternoon Linda Newman was elected as the union's first president to create an all-female…
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9 March 2007
Sally Hunt has been elected as the first general secretary of the University and College Union. The union was formed on 1 June 2006 following a merger between the…
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8 March 2007
An industrial tribunal has ruled that further education colleges in Northern Ireland failed to pay over 70 lecturers their proper pay since 2001. The decision,…
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20 February 2007
UCU today said plans for a private university in Northern Ireland were ill-advised and contrary to what the country needs or what people want. The news come on…
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30 January 2007
Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges were hit hard by strike action on 29 January as college lecturers took their 6th day of strike action since last…
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14 December 2006
The secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain, has agreed to meet a union deputation on the FE dispute on 15 January 2007 thanks to approaches from UCU…
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30 November 2006
UCU has added its backing to an emergency fund for Iraqi academics. The fund, launched by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), will lobby the UK…
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21 November 2006
Disturbing levels of sleeplessness, anxiety and exhaustion amongst lecturers in colleges and universities will be revealed at a conference on tackling stress at…
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