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  • Re-imagining a university….

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    Imagine…… a real University for the Common Good Have you ever imagined……. what would happen if GCU could be re-made, and re-imagined, run and resourced in a manner that was based on the vision, outlook and understanding of its staff and students? What would the university look like in 2030 – how would our vision…

  • Workload a key issue at GCU says UCU

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    The recent AGM of the UCU discussed its work in the coming year, as the university moves to more on-campus delivery. Towering above the other issues was the need for university action on workload. Despite amazing efforts by all staff throughout the pandemic to keep the university going workload pressure is still far too high. Court…

  • Well, that’s the second week of this phase of industrial action over!

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    One of the strongest pickets yet saw a colourful and noisy celebration of our demands in front of the main gate today. We also got tremendous support from passing cars, lorries, Fire Engines, and even a police car, thanks to the work of  Suzanne and Alice Meanwhile the student solidarity network was also out leafleting,…

  • Spirits high on day three of our Industrial Action

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    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…

  • Highlights from the UCU LGBT+ Research conference

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    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…

  • Catholic Chaplain not to return to GCU

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    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…

  • No room for bigotry at GCU says UCU

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    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…

  • Celebrating International Women’s Day @ GCU

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    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…

  • Caledonian unions celebrate impact of migration

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    Staff and students came out for a quick pic on the nationally organised ‘One Day Without Us’ day of action on February 20th. Speaking after the photoshoot UCU local president Douglas Chalmers said “there’s hardly a family in the West of Scotland which isn’t built on immigration either now or in the past. And it’s…

  • UCU members now working to contract throughout UK

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    Following up from our last two blog posts reporting on local action including the excellent Glasgow media coverage, the UCU has a page reporting all the activity https://www.ucu.org.uk/UCU-HE-strike-live And now we move to action short of a strike by working to contract. https://www.ucu.org.uk/heactionfaqs sets this out as: performing no additional voluntary duties, such as out of hours cover, covering…