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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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No room for bigotry at GCU says UCU
Following the news today that the GCU Catholic chaplain held a mass ‘for the gross offence to God which is Pride Glasgow’ (link to evening times article: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16359297.glasgow-caledonian-university-chaplain-holds-mass-for-gross-offence-of-pride/ ) the GCU branch of UCU calls for clear and decisive action from the University. The actions of the chaplain amount to homophobic hate speech and undermines the equality and diversity…
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Celebrating International Women’s Day @ GCU
A message from UCU@GCU President Catriona Mowat: Catriona is Disability Manager at GCU. To celebrate International Women’s Day this Thursday 8th March, we asked women members of the UCU @ GCU to tell us what being a trade union member means to them, what they would be celebrating this Thursday, and what their hopes for…
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History must never repeat itself – film and talk
Holocaust Memorial day 2018 will see a film and lecture sponsored by the GCU joint unions and the Students Association. This will take place on Wednesday 31st January – in M317 at 1pm Journey to Safety – memories of the Kindertransport is a moving and short (26 min) film that features testimony of three individuals whose…
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Deadline approaches over GCU NY licence application
Following the hearing held on May 22nd regarding the request by GCU to obtain an academic licence for its New York hub, a set of recommendations have been issued to the New York State Higher Education committee that will meet this month ‘where it will be voted on and action taken. It will then come…
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