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GCU Green league success – Trade Union welcomes invite to be involved
The latest roll call of environmental achievement from the People and Planet Green League shows another impressive leap for our university – which the hard work of our staff should take credit for. Glasgow Caledonian has increased its position in this table from 59th to 46th – following on from a previous increase the year…
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Caledonian Unions say – vote for Douglas Chalmers for GCU Court
The combined union committee comprising of UCU, EIS, Unison and Unite, have asked their members to vote for Douglas Chalmers for the vacant academic staff position on Court, in the elections this Thursday 13th June. This follows the news that Davena Rankin was elected unopposed as Support Staff representative. Thursday’s voting comes at a time…
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Holyrood Education Committee Must Oppose Pensions Increase say EIS
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) – the country’s largest teaching union which represents 80% of teachers and lecturers – has today urged the Members of the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee to oppose the Scottish Government’s desire to impose a further increase in the pension contributions paid by the country’s teachers and lecturers. …
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GCU Students say no to sexual exploitation
On International Women’s Day 2013 the GCU Students Union Debating Society held a debate about ending exploitation of women, which the local UCU was pleased to sponsor – here’s a taste of the debate. Thanks to Lesley Roy and Calum Leslie for the filming and production @lroyjournalist and @calumsleslie
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The Higher Education sector is no place for profit seekers says UCU
UCU today cautiously welcomed news in the budget that the government has decided against allowing for-profit providers of higher education VAT exemption. UCU led the campaign against the move and wrote to the minister for universities and science, David Willetts, asking him to block any moves to grant for-profit providers of education exemption from VAT.…
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International Women’s Day debate takes off at GCU
Following a scurrilous report in the Daily Telegraph which suggested that female students at Glasgow Caledonian had been signing up to a sexploitation website, the GCU Association debating society decided to run a debate on this, on International Women’s Day, sponsored by the local UCU. Featured by STV, the debate clearly struck a chord with…
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Local UCU officer elected as UCU Scotland Vice President
Douglas Chalmers, local President of the UCU@GCU announced he felt honoured to be elected as Scottish vice president of the UCU in their current elections. Receiving almost twice as many votes as his opponent in the election, Douglas said “The union in Scotland and in the rest of the UK, faces some difficult times ahead,…
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UCU Vice Presidential Candidate outlines why UCU at Glasgow Caledonian is growing
Innovative activity on issues such as International Women’s Day, Equality and Diversity, Student Support, Health and Wellbeing, as well as successful action against threatenened redundancies, on pensions and against cuts in real wages have helped make UCU at GCU the leading branch in Scotland in terms of growth, according to Douglas Chalmers, President of the…
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Withholding pay – GCU Management steps back from the brink – but needs to go further
Unions at GCU welcomed the ‘clarification’ statement released by HR following our protestation at the proposal to withhold wages from staff involved in action short of a strike. Following our protests and communication with HR, all staff have now had the university’s new position outlined as follows: “Dear Colleagues EIS has now clarified the nature…
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GCU Unions convey best wishes to new Chancellor Yunus
Members of all university unions were present at the inaugural ceremony installing Professor Muhammad Yunus as new Chancellor of the University on Friday 26th October. During his installation, Professor Yunus spoke of the need for universities to solve global problems, but suggested that the biggest challenge was often right next to campus – within the…
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