David Harvie

National Executive Committee — election address

On the levy…

Lots of UCU members shocked by the email that ticked into their inboxes this morning: £10 levy this month & £5 next month to top up…

NEC, 19 June 2020

A 3-hour meeting. One report by the general secretary — an important part of NEC’s business, which is recorded and should soon…

Proposals for UCU accountability and transparency

I still have no words for what UCU Left attempted here…

NEC, 1 May 2020

A meeting overshadowed by a motion not debated. In the papers for this meeting — received the preceding Friday — one motion stood…

HEC, 24 April 2020

My first meeting, held online, of course, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting was supposed to begin at 1.30, but despite Paul Cottrell (UCU’s national head of democratic services) inviting members to join one of two ‘trial’ sessions in the preceding days and despite opening the…

NEC, 13 March 2020

This would have been my first NEC, but I had booked annual leave several months previously and I was 2,500km from Carlow Street (where UCU offices are), so I had to send apologies. Given the recent end of the 14 days of strike action and the just-breaking coronavirus situation, there was also…