Author: unionadmin
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Spirits high on day three of our Industrial Action
The local Public Service Union PCS were a welcome addition to today’s picket line with Lindsay Morgan and Magnus Hughson bringing along their local banner. And from early on we also had the welcome support from the newly formed Student support network who distributed the excellent GCU students support the strikers leaflet. The facts of…
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UCU still strong on day seven
The last three days since our previous post have been full of activity. With appearances of MSPs and MPs from Labour and SNP, our General Secretary Jo Grady, marches with Strathclyde UCU and finally our noisy presence at the fantastic rally at the Donald Dewar statue we’ve hardly had a minute. Our days have started…
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And it’s goodnight from them….
Once again thanks to the Communications Workers Union, no mail delivered. Today this was joined by a helpful driver from Initial services…. Unfortunate to note however that the suppliers for Baxter Storey the caterers were somewhat less sympathetic. That’s a shame – if they’re serious about being part of the university community they need to…
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Second day of action, and still going strong
Whistles, pooches and leaflets and stickers for graduates plus an alternative University Mission statement all made their appearance on today’s picket line. Together with some great solidarity photos from our GCU students at GCU London and some twitter activity towards Annie Lennox our Chancellor, pickets were again in good spirits – being also joined towards…
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GCU students discuss strike action with UCU
A packed meeting of GCU Student Voice discussed the impact of the current strike action on the evening of the first day with Douglas Chalmers, VP of the UCU locally and President of the UCU at UK level. Douglas outlined the four components of the current dispute and stressed that students were not the target…
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UCU Strike Action launched for better pay, and action against pay gap, casualisation, and too heavy workloads
With solidarity bacon and veggie butties from Unison, chocolate cakes from security guards, a coffee cart from the Student full-timers, passing cars honking their horns in support, and both the Royal Mail and Paper deliveries turning back in solidarity, picketing UCU members certainly felt appreciated this morning. We had prepared for the worst, with a…
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GCU Students Union issue statement of support for UCU industrial action
The University and College Union at GCU today welcomed the statement of support from GCU students regarding the forthcoming industrial action 25th – 29th November and 2nd – 4th December. The statement from the GCU Student officers is reproduced here: GCU employees who are members of the University and Colleges Union (UCU) have voted to…
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Why the UCU will be on strike from 25th November
Statement from the UCU: All members of GCU staff who are members of the University and College Union (UCU) will be on strike through the whole of week 10 (Monday 25th – Friday 29th November), and then Monday 2nd December – Wednesday 4th December in Week 11. This means that we will not be giving…
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Highlights from the UCU LGBT+ Research conference
Mel McKenna, UCU@GCU I recently attended the 2019 LGBT+ research conference at the University of Manchester and wanted to share the highlights with GCU branch members. The conference packed a lot into a short day and shared lots of interesting research that is taking place throughout the UK…
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Catholic Chaplain not to return to GCU
UCU@GCU welcomes the post from university management this afternoon, that ‘following due consultation’, Father Mark Morris, erstwhile Catholic Chaplain at GCU, will not be returning to his chaplaincy role at GCU: The university statement is below: Yesterday the University expressed “extreme disappointment” on learning our Catholic chaplain Father Mark Morris had held a service at…
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