Category: Combined Union Committee
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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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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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More than all right on the night.
Unison@GCU take the extra step for fair pay@GCU At a time when most staff were either in bed or heading there, GCU security guards joined other Unison members at the change of shift, and marched out for fair pay, making the point that many of us miss – that some of our staff work all…
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We are the University for the Common Good. Management needs to reconsider its position on pay deductions
It’s the role of the Trade Unions to speak for, defend, and act for staff at GCU. Management manage the operation of the university, under the strategic eye of the University Court. Peoples Services (HR) are expected to help smooth relationships between both sides if necessary. Relationships here were certainly not always smooth – for…
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Come on GCU management – put your head above the parapet – tell UCEA to give your staff fair pay
In the best picket turnout for at least 10 years, UCU and EIS members protested for fair pay at GCU, asking that our management put their head above the parapet and voice staff concerns to UCEA, demanding that staff are taken seriously and that their demands not be dismissed as an ‘April Fool’s joke’ And…
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Fierce, Fabulous and Feminist – fighting for our futures
The sun shone for the GCU pickets (and why shouldn’t it!) on the third day of the UCU’s action at Glasgow Caledonian when well over 30 pickets joined the several hundred members who were striking for better pay and conditions. Earlier a selection of UCU Elves had made their point beside the GCU Christmas tree…
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Time to take our catering back, and reward our catering staff properly
Some years ago, a campaign by the Combined Union Committee saved the jobs of the majority of GCU catering staff – due to be paid off by Glasgow Caledonian University just before Christmas 2016. This involved a threatened boycott by staff if the redundancies went ahead, and also led to questions in the Scottish Parliament.…
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We’ve been underpaying our staff admits GCU Principal
In our campus trade unions’ appeal to students in the week beginning 14th November, we explained our case for better pay and conditions, and called on students to contact Pamela Gillies, Principal of GCU, and ask her to pressurise the University and Colleges Employers Association to award staff a fair wage. Staff have lost 25%…
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Another good turnout on day two of our joint action
Day two of strike action at GCU started well and early again though we were glad of the weights that stopped the Gazebo going skyward, given the turn in the weather. Again a great and positive response from students – including some GCU journalism students who came down to interview pickets for their ‘newsdays’ assignments.…
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