Making a difference
How UCU is working toward and winning greater continuity of employment and better pay for casualised staff.
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5 March 2018
The BBC publishes an article on the often precarious nature of academic careers and the hugely negative impact on those starting out in academia. The article comes…
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16 March 2017
UCU has consistently campaigned for the rights of casual and fixed term staff in higher education. In 2015 this included pursuing a case to the Supreme Court, against…
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9 February 2017
Showing how branches can win major successes on behalf of casualised staff.
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20 January 2017
As a consequence of UCU's work, momentum has been building up on the issue of casualisation for the last few years, culminating in November with the Guardian front…
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16 November 2016
The Guardian newspaper led its front page with the UCU report that 'one of the most highly skilled and prestigious professions in Britain, university teaching,…
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16 November 2016
Thursday 24 November 2016 is UCU's anti-casualisation day of action in both higher and further education. Already we have reports of many branches organising events.…
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