Wednesday 18 May 2022 – Furness College take strike action after an offer of 1% on pay …
Read more →An industrial action ballot of UCU members at Northumbria University opens today, 24th February. A meeting of almost 200…
Read more →For the last few years, Séamus Moran has been the figurehead of the University and College Union at Tyne…
Read more →Durham University UCU Branch are taking strike action next week. Those who wish to visit picket lines, send messages…
Read more →Tyne Coast College UCU Branch have submitted a claim to the College which covers both pay for staff, as well…
Read more →UCU members and representatives took the fight against cuts in post-16 education to London on Wednesday 10th November 2010. Below are a few of the photos from the day and there was some good publicity for us, including Kathy Taylor (Vice-President of UCU and a lecturer from our region) appearing on BBC breakfast news to…
Congratulations on becoming a UCU activist/rep. If you have yet to inform your employer that you are now a UCU Rep please adapt and use this model letter. The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULR(C)A) in conjunction with the ACAS Code, requires your employer to give you reasonable time off to carry…
Lined up together – wound up by low pay! United in action – UCU and UNISON Students at Bishop Auckland College show their support by wearing UCU stickers…. ….and taking “Timeout” bars with lecturers who took timeout from their working day! Staff and students at Bishop Auckland College came out in force on the…
David O’Toole, UCU Branch Chair and Vanessa Maughan, UCU Branch Secretary hold up the cheque signed by College Staff, symbolising the amount of un-paid overtime that lecturers undertake. The Newcastle Evening Chronicle (4th June 2008) carried the story:
Darlington Pickets – and excellent show of strength from UCU members! Darlington UCU members showed their support for the national action, and got some good publicity as well! North East News at 6.00p.m. on Tyne Tees Television had coverage of the picket line and a photo was in the Northern Echo. Eddy Adam, UCU Branch…
Mike McBride, Terry Jones and Julie Bryson on picket duty Joining many other lecturers across the region, UCU members picketed outside of Carlisle College campus to show their anger about pay. Thursday 24th April 2008 saw a massive show of strength across the public sector and with picket lines outside most colleges, these got media…
