Author: unionadmin
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Plus ça change? Reflections from a previous redundancy consultation
While bringing the joint union blog back online, we came across posts written during the university’s last major redundancy consultation in 2011. Reading them now is striking. Many of the concerns raised by staff at that time will sound familiar: questions about financial assumptions, uncertainty around recruitment forecasts, and the importance of exploring alternatives to…
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Personal message to UCU@GCU members from Jo Grady, General Secretary
UCU Scotland’s Congress was held in Clydebank on March 22nd 2024 during which Jo Grady, the union General Secretary addressed delegates. Douglas Chalmers, local branch president and who was one of the delegates, together with Lyle Gray, Karen Lorimer and Laura Bailie, took advantage of Jo’s presence to ask her to say some words to…
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Women should have freedom to flourish – and not just on International Women’s Day – UCU
Karen Lorimer, Vice President of UCU@GCU and also current joint equalities officer of the branch explains an exhibition she has been hosting today, 8th March – International Women’s Day, in the Govan Mbeki foyer regarding the perception of women’s economic class amongst students. This year’s IWD theme is inspire inclusion and for it UCU have…
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Launch of Mutual Severance Scheme premature – Campus Unions
Glasgow Caledonian University campus unions today (4th March 2024) voiced their regret regarding the launching of a new Mutual Severance Scheme which in the view of the unions will inevitably lead to a loss of staff and subsequent increases in the general student staff ratio in the university – quoted by the Daily mail as…
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It’s time for management to discuss the future with all staff.
Today (12th December 2023), the campus unions at GCU have published a first response to the Principal’s all staff communication on Dec 1st regarding Student Recruitment and Associated Investments. Welcoming the Principal’s offer to discuss any and all of the issues raised in the document, the campus unions have suggested an early New Year ‘All-Staff’…
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Terrible weather but great turnout for better pay!
Unison members at Glasgow Caledonian University were out in force today on the first of four days of strike action in favour of better pay. Under the banner of rising together for better pay, the staff, whose roles cover administration, library staff, student support, IT, maintenance, cleaning, catering, security and more, were determined to make…
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Key agreement reached between UCU@GCU and GCU management regarding the Marking and Assessment Boycott over Summer
Following a period of frank, sometimes difficult – but also open and constructive – negotiations with GCU management, UCU officers, in consultation with the UCU branch committee, reached agreement over the coming phase of the ongoing Marking and Assessment Boycott. This will essentially cover the resit period in Trimester C and assessment and marking for…
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Students’ right to appeal marks and grades
Dear students, On 24 May, UCU@GCU published the blog post ‘Students – we believe management are endangering the integrity of your degree –UCU@GCU’. In it, we expressed our worry that GCU management has implemented corner-cutting measures in marking and assessment that may endanger the integrity of your degree. GCU management has implemented these measures in…
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Management threat to access staff e-mails due to dispute shocks campus unions
The UCU are in a legal and legitimate dispute with management at GCU over wages pay and conditions. Currently the dispute is taking the form of members working to contract and implementing a Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) by refusing to mark and assess students work. Staff had made a cogent case for no deductions…
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Solidarity towards UCU @ GCU
Colleagues in Media and Journalism were copied in to this e-mail from UCU member @ Ulster University, Dr Anthea Irwin, who felt compelled to resign as external examiner for the Media and Communications degree following GCU Management’s actions over deductions. The e-mail is self explanatory Subject: Resigning my position as external examiner Dear Professor Stephen Decent …
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