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…
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 →Information for new UCU activists/reps in the Northern Region
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…