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 →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…
Jon Bryan, one of the North East representatives on UCU’s National Executive Committee, spoke in support of an anti-racist March and Rally in Newcastle, organised by TCAR. TCAR – Tyneside Community Action for Refugees – organised the March and the Rally and more details can be found athttp://www.asylum-seekers-defence.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Tyneside_Community_Action_for_Refugees Speaking at the Rally, Jon offered support…
Michael MacNeil, UCU Assistant General Secretary Alison Macfarlane and Veronica Killen Carrying the Cause (and the banner!) Many of you will have read about the plight of health educators in the recent copy of “UC” magazine with local Rep Veronica Killen. Not one for just words, Veronica is in favour of putting words into action!…
