Durham Miners' Gala 2025
Join UCU Northern region and UCU members from all over the UK in Durham on Saturday 12th July 2025…
Read more →Sunderland University issues threat to staff about redundancy, then a further threat if they talk to others
(This is a copy of an email that was sent to all UCU members at Sunderland University on 13/01/25 to…
Read more →Agreed joint statement from Sunderland University and the trade unions
Consultation on Redundancies Today (Tuesday 8 October 2024), a meeting took place involving representatives from the University Executive, UCU…
Read more →Sunderland University are threatening to make 1 in 10 Academics Redundant
The UCU Branch at Sunderland University will be meeting on Wednesday 9 October 2024 to discuss these job cuts. …
Read more →Black History Month event: special screening of Selma, Newcastle
UCU National Recruitment Week : November 2015
UCU is launching a major new recruitment campaign for 2015/16 including our first series of national recruitment weeks, the first of which commences on Monday 16th November 2015. Build the union 2015/16 Recruiting new members is a priority for the whole union – branch officers, reps, members and staff – and we want to…
TUC mass lobby of parliament and rally, Westminster Central Hall, London
The rally will begin at 1pm with speakers at Westminster Central Hall. The lobby is planned to start at 2.30pm. Beth Farhat, Regional Secretary Northern TUC: It would be really helpful if you can identify some volunteers to help with the smooth running of the lobby. All offers to Isobel at ilarkin@tuc.org.uk. We need help:…
Defend the Right to Strike rally, food & music
The Protect the right to strike campaign – materials There are lots of downloadable resources including letters that constituents can send to their MPs and local press. Downloadable resources are now available at www.tuc.org.uk/ActivistPack. This includes: activist pack campaign logo, posters, postcards letter and postcard to MPs, letter to local paper…
UCU HE Pay Briefing for HE branches / LAs
Northern Region HE branches are encouraged to register to attend the briefing in Glasgow. Full information is in the below PDF:
North East People’s Assembly
The fight to #EndAusterityNow continues… 3rd NORTH EAST PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY Saturday 26th September Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle 10:30am – 4:30pm. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/785126901584408/ A plenary session with a range of speakers from trade unions and the anti-cuts movement will be followed by a series of workshops on a range of topics:…