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Neil Sharp was a well-respected representative of NATFHE, one of the predecessor unions of UCU. He not only stood up…
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Read more →UCU members from Teesside University held pickets at various parts of the campus, along with members of other Unions. At lunch time, a march through town ended with a well-attended rally at which Teesside Uni Branch Chair Terry Murphy addressed the crowd.
Stockton Riverside College took to the picket lines on 30th November to support the TUC’s Pensions Justice day. The College had decided to close one campus but keep the other open – but even the one that was open was very quiet on a day when UNISON and UCU stood together in action to defend…
Picketing in the dark is often something done by those on night shifts, but at Redcar and Cleveland College, on the last day of November 2011, the picket line of UCU members and representatives started well before sunrise and this photo has been described by UCU Head Office as “I think, one of the…
Members from Darlington College (the College was closed for the day) outside Mowden Hall where all the teaching unions were present to demonstrate their opposition to proposed changes to TPS which has its administrative HQ at Mowden Hall.
UCU members and representatives at CCAD welcomed NEC member Dave O’Toole and Regional Support Official Jon Bryan to their picket lines on Wednesday. There was a good turnout for the picket at the College, braving the cold weather to stand up for pensions! Branch representative Francis Fitzgerald thanks all those memebrs who supported the…
An estimated 8500 people marched from Gateshead Civic Centre down over the Tyne and on to Spillers Wharf on Wednesday to the cheers and clapping of onlookers along the route. Speakers from many of the Unions involved addressed the crowd at Spillers Wharf where marchers gathered with an array of flags and banners to brighten…
