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1 October 2007
Four more teacher trade unionists have been murdered in recent weeks in the Colombian department of Antioquia, taking to over 1,000 lives the union death toll in…
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28 September 2007
UCU announced today that, after seeking legal advice, an academic boycott of Israel would be unlawful and cannot be implemented. Members of the union's strategy…
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12 September 2007
UCU will this lunchtime donate £2,000 to Justice for Colombia. The money has been donated by Sussex University UCU member, Jim Guild. Jim, a member of the union's…
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10 August 2007
Amid growing concern about climate change, UCU today endorsed a call by colleges for more environmental education in the college curriculum. UCU was responding…
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18 July 2007
UCU today responded to the release of a Universities UK report today, 'Talent wars: the international market for academic staff'. UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt,…
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30 May 2007
Delegates at the inaugural UCU congress voted this afternoon in favour of a motion calling for the circulation of 'the full text of the Palestinian boycott call…
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30 April 2007
UCU today welcomed the Education and Skills Committee's report on the Bologna process. The aims of the Bologna Process are to create greater mobility between European…
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8 February 2007
UCU joint general secretary, Sally Hunt, will today tell delegates at a major European education seminar that unless trade unions are centrally involved in plans…
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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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15 September 2006
Coaches are being booked from all over the UK to take people to the 'Stop The War' national demonstration in Manchester on 23 September - the eve of the Labour…
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