UCU Northern Region

Information for new UCU activists/reps in the Northern Region

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…

Staff and Students at Bishop Auckland College Protest on Pay

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…

Newcastle College UCU Branch – cheque out their protest!

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 College Picket Line gets TV coverage as UCU members show excellent support for action

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…

Carlisle College Picket Line gets Media Attention!

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…

Newcastle College Branch unveil their new banner!

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…

UCU Northern Region

Statement from the UCU Branch Committee at the University of Sunderland on the visit of Boris Johnson

February 2020 meeting including October 2019 minutes

Industrial action at Durham University

UCU joint strike rally

Industrial action at Newcastle University