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13 September 2019
University strike ballots open Strike ballots opened at UK universities on Monday in rows over USS pensions and pay, workloads, casualisation and equality. The…
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12 September 2019
Action is needed to reduce the use of fixed-term contracts for researchers and to ensure they can access professional development opportunities, the University…
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9 September 2019
Members of UCU at Nottingham College will walk out on Wednesday (11 September) in the first of a mammoth 15 days of strike action as part of a row over new contracts.…
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6 September 2019
UCU has confirmed that strike ballots will open at UK universities on Monday 9 September in rows over USS pensions and pay, workloads, casualisation and equality.…
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19 July 2019
Staff at Nottingham College will take personal accounts of the damage new contracts are causing to them and their students directly to the governors, as they fight…
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15 July 2019
Nottingham College faces weeks of walkouts in September and October after UCU members announced plans for a mammoth 15 days of strike action. The union said its…
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12 July 2019
Racism in universities is "widespread and widely tolerated" On Saturday, the Guardian ran a huge expose of racism of university campuses. The paper said its findings,…
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8 July 2019
Staff and students will be protesting at the University of Portsmouth from 12pm on Wednesday over plans to cut jobs in the faculty of science. Protestors will be…
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5 July 2019
Ruskin College in Oxford has been accused of trade union victimisation following a string of disciplinary and redundancy threats directed at UCU members. Three…
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5 July 2019
71% of university staff say insecure contracts have damaged their mental health Staff in UK universities working on insecure contracts say the lack of security…
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