Tyne Coast College UCU Branch have submitted a claim to the College which covers both pay for staff, as well…
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Read more →This week (10-16 May 2021) is #MentalHealthAwareness week You can find out more about it here: mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week Below is advice…
Read more →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…
Picket Lines at Newcastle College began at 6.55a.m. on Thursday 24th April as UCU members took strike action to join the national campaign for better pay and the Branch had organised a new banner, a barbecue, negotiated free teas and coffees for all strikes from the local deli, and pickets with children who were off…
Stella Thornton, Kay Murray and Kevin Mochrie from New College Durham Showing support from their Branch at the rally Why are they taking action? Kay Murray, UCU Rep, says why she is on strike for better pay: http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=14733 Branch Chair David Branson and UCU Rep Cameron from Middlesbrough College Packed out with protestors UCU and…
John McCormack, UCU Branch Chair at Northumberland College, Chair of the union’s FE Northern Regional Committee, and (from June 2008) a member of the union’s National Executive Committee John McCormack – pointing the way forward! Kathy Taylor, Branch Secretary at Northumberland College Kathy Taylor, David Owen (Kirkley Hall Branch) and John McCormack “Not much happening…
UCU Pickets, including Ian Stephenson, Phil Moss and Thea Khamis, were up early and outside Derwentside College shoing their support for the national strike action. Derwentside College decided to close to students on the day of the strike, and pickets were out on duty in the early misty cold. Support for the strike was…
