Ucu Strike

Number 110: #USSbriefs110 — Neil Davies, University of Bristol Jackie Grant, University of Sussex Chin Yang Shapland, University of Bristol A pdf of this brief is also available here How much risk, and what types of risk, is the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) taking? This is a critical question for universities across the UK…

Number 109: #USSbriefs109 — Neil Davies, University of Bristol What’s going on with the valuation? The good ship ‘Titanic’ University Superannuation Scheme (USS) is continuing full steam ahead towards its 2020 valuation. The 2020 valuation estimates the USS’s assets at the end of March 2020 and then estimates how much it would need to have had at that time to…

Note: For anyone landing here and unsure of why the University and College Union are on strike in the first place, here’s my guide for the perplexed. Hi. Yep, I’m talking to you. Well, of course I am. There’s no point in me talking to the people who don’t think…

While university staff are once more on strike for fairer working conditions, a small band of merry volunteers will be doing what they love most: Marketisation-free teaching! That’s right! Come along to All Saints Church Hall where the Alternative University of St Andrews is having its third… un-semester? No fees…

Second-class academic citizens, the report on the experiences of casualised staff released on 20th January and endorsed by UCU, makes devastating reading. It details, by means of story after heartbreaking story, the experience of casualised staff in the university sector as missing out on the basic recognition of their worth…

I am a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Exeter, where I recently completed my PhD in the Department of History. My research is focused on violence against women, at the intersections of race, colonialism, age, and gender. …

I want to begin by paying tribute to the memory of two people this community is grieving: Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, both of whom lost their lives cruelly a few days ago. We can ill-afford to lose committed young people in these globally vicious times & the circumstances of…

Regarding the UCU’s Ongoing Industrial Action The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech I delivered last week at a rally during the University of Oxford UCU’s ongoing industrial action. — 29 Nov 2019 The strike going on today regards in some part the issue of casualized, or…