Raising UCU's profile

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• General
• Academic-related and professional staff
• Adult and community learning
• Casualised staff
• Cuts
• Early careers
• Further education
• Open days
• Privatisation
• Researchers
• Newsletters
• Press
• Petitions
• Inductions
• Templates

Order

• UCU '10 reasons to join' forms
• UCU form holders
• UCU stickers
• UCU balloons
• UCU carrier bags
• UCU badges
• A6 UCU notepads
• UCU lanyards

Please contact Martin Whelton to order any materials.

Downloads

Quantities of some of the posters and leaflets below may be available for branches on request. Please contact Martin Whelton for further information.

General

• Build the Union - 'Rosie' recruitment poster [1Mb]
• 'Help' recruitment poster [60kb]
• 'There’s strength in numbers' recruitment poster [129kb]
• 10 reasons to join poster/leaflet [32kb]
• UCU general recruitment poster [30kb]
• A4 Join UCU poster [48kb]
• Blank UCU poster [16kb]
• Blank UCU poster with contact box [17kb]

• UCU general recruitment leaflet [33kb]
• Exeter University UCU joint union recruitment leaflet example [90kb]

Academic-related and professional staff

• 'Join UCU now' academic-related staff recruitment poster [100kb]
• 'Join your union' academic-related staff recruitment poster [106kb]
• Professional staff recruitment poster [222kb]
• Academic-related and professional staff: 'five reasons to join' recruitment poster [58kb]
• Academic-related staff recruitment poster [222kb]

Adult and community learning

• ACL recruitment leaflet [46kb]
• ACL recruitment poster [28kb]
• UCU adult education recruitment leaflet [44kb]

Casualised staff

• UCU hourly paid recruitment leaflet [33kb]
• Fixed-term poster [29kb]

• Leeds University UCU 'fixed-term contract week' poster example [311kb]
• Leeds University UCU 'fixed-term contract week' leaflet example [193kb]
• Oxford University UCU: fixed-term contract leaflet example [134kb]

Cuts

• UCU 'protect jobs' recruitment leaflet [33kb]

• Askham Bryan UCU 'stop the cuts' poster example [49kb]
• Askham Bryan 'stop the cuts' leaflet example [31kb]
• UEA UCU: 'no more cuts' leaflet example [87kb]

Early careers

• UCU early careers recruitment leaflet [304kb]
• UCU early careers union presentation [546kb]

Further education

• FE staff recruitment leaflet [263kb]
• FE non lecturer recruitment leaflet [318kb]
• Associate lecturers - recruitment leaflet [61kb]
• Associate lecturers - recruitment poster [35kb]

Open days

• Which university should I go to? - leaflet for university open days [69kb]

Privatisation

• Stop privatisation leaflet/poster [31kb]

• Essex University UCU INTO/privatisation recruitment poster example [25kb]
• Oxford Brookes UCU 'keep INTO out' poster example [438kb]
• Essex University UCU INTO/privatisation leaflet example [61kb]
• Oxford Brookes UCU 'keep INTO out' leaflet example [461kb]

Researchers

• UCU reseacher recruitment leaflet [33kb]

Newsletters

• Local newsletter template - single-sided [216kb]
• Local newsletter template - two-sided [209kb]

• Birkbeck College: example of local newsletter [309kb]

Press

• Local press release template [132kb]

Petitions

• petition template [608kb]
• Example petition: ESOL [27kb]

Inductions

• UCU: sample induction presentation [299kb]
• UCU structure diagram [63kb]

Templates

• Blank UCU poster [16kb]
• UCU draft invitation to join letter #1 [148kb]
• UCU: sample induction presentation [299kb]
• Local newsletter template - single-sided [216kb]
• Local newsletter template - two-sided [209kb]
• Blank UCU poster with contact box [17kb]
• Local press release template [132kb]

Order

Please contact Martin Whelton to order any materials.

UCU '10 reasons to join'

All members must now join online. There is a membership enquiry form available for recruitment and induction meetings, available also in Welsh. Please contact Martin Whelton to order printed copies of the forms.

UCU stickers

Large, long stickers (8.5 x 70cm) with many uses including noticeboard headers, placards, recruitment stalls and armbands.

UCU balloons

Eleven inch diameter latex balloons with UCU logo on two sides, available in pink or purple. Great for dressing recruitment stalls. Balloon sticks are also available on request.

UCU carrier bags

Good sized (38 x 45cm), heavyweight white carrier bags with UCU logo and website address printed on both sides.

These carrier bags will biodegrade when exposed to sunlight and heat.

UCU badges

Small metal lapel badge (25 x 9.5 mm) with UCU logo on white background and silver border. Fastens at back with brooch style pin.

A6 UCU notepads

Handy notepads for stalls and the staff room in white paper with UCU logo and web address. Pads are made from elemental chlorine free 100% recycled paper. Each pad contains fifty sheets.

UCU lanyards

2cm wide UCU purple nylon lanyard with UCU logo and website address and metal side release clip.