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Students – we believe management are endangering the integrity of your degree – UCU@GCU
The following statement was made public by UCU@GCU today (24th May 2023). On 16th May, a draft of this was given to GCU management to comment on as they might wish, and the publishing of the statement was delayed but the opportunity to comment was not taken up. If management wish to comment on the…
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We deeply regret university management’s failure of vision and of nerve – UCU@GCU
Glasgow Caledonian university branch of the UCU today expressed their deep disappointment with GCU management for what the branch see as a failure of vision and of nerve. This follows the management declining to take what the branch had seen as a helpful approach within the current stage of the marking and assessment boycott. Two…
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UCU and Student Officers discuss Marking and Assessment Boycott
UCU branch committee members had their first meeting with the newly elected Student Association Sabbatical officers last week (Tuesday 16th May) where we welcomed them to their posts, and intimated that together with the other campus unions we looked forward to working constructively with them over this coming year. In a wide ranging discussion over…
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UCU launches Marking and Assessment Boycott
After an overwhelming positive vote which renews UCU’s mandate for industrial action over the next six months, UCU members at over 140 UK universities today (Thursday 20th April) launched a marking and assessment boycott. Below you will see the message to all members from Jo Grady the General Secretary of the union. The University and…
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Over (part 1)…….. but certainly not out
Today saw the last of the current UCU strike days in the on-going HE unions’ dispute with management over the unacceptably meagre salary increase of approximately 5 percent being imposed on all staff. Ironically, while university sector chiefs are expecting staff with higher than ever workloads to do more for less, official inflation figures indicated…
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A love song to Education from the UCU…..
Our Vice Present elect Karen Lorimer has done a marvellous job above, encapsulating just some of the moments the branch shared on the picket line during the current period of dispute. Below are some of today’s photos as well. Tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd March) is the end of the current round of strikes as we wait…
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Another University is Possible……
Another university is possible – one that really does live the values of the ‘common good’ but is also one where a new generation of students is created – a generation that lives our values, debates them with staff, and helps ‘co-create’ a curriculum that helps change Scotland, the UK and indeed the planet in…
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Hope to see you at the Picket…. And the Teach In
Following on from the tremendous support from GCU students during the UCU (and EIS….and Unison) pickets, the local UCU branch have organised a Teach-In on Monday 20th March, immediately following our picket. Hope to see you there. The UCU strike action is continuing and we’ll have pickets Monday 20th, Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd this…
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No ifs….and definitely no butts……
A strange thing happened on our latest UCU picket this morning (Wednesday 15th). A key point of the UCU Four Fights Campaign has been to demand action is taken to end the gender pay gap – which we don’t think the university sector is taking seriously enough. As we were setting up the UCU picket,…
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A nice way to end the (picketing) week…
As well as a long on-line interview on the Scotsman’s Video page (see below, or directly here), the UCU@GCU picket had the young team in action again today, helping their parents spread the message for fair pay. And again – our students augmented with new faces, gave us so much support (before disappearing to add…
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