Category: UCU
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Personal message to UCU@GCU members from Jo Grady, General Secretary
UCU Scotland’s Congress was held in Clydebank on March 22nd 2024 during which Jo Grady, the union General Secretary addressed delegates. Douglas Chalmers, local branch president and who was one of the delegates, together with Lyle Gray, Karen Lorimer and Laura Bailie, took advantage of Jo’s presence to ask her to say some words to…
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Women should have freedom to flourish – and not just on International Women’s Day – UCU
Karen Lorimer, Vice President of UCU@GCU and also current joint equalities officer of the branch explains an exhibition she has been hosting today, 8th March – International Women’s Day, in the Govan Mbeki foyer regarding the perception of women’s economic class amongst students. This year’s IWD theme is inspire inclusion and for it UCU have…
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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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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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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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