Category: UCU
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Glasgow Caledonian Unions welcome management change of heart over student resit ‘fines’
The announcement today that GCU management have withdrawn plans to ‘fine’ students for resits and retaking modules was today welcomed by GCU unions. Speaking on behalf of the University and College Union, branch president Douglas Chalmers said: “We welcome this step back by management on the issue. This really would have hit hard those who…
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Academic Unions at GCU call for a re-think on re-sit ‘fines’
The GCU branches of the University and College Union (UCU) and the Educational Institute for Scotland (EIS) both called today for the senior management at Glasgow Caledonian University to reconsider their decision to fine students, who need to undertake re-sits of exams or of modules. From the coming semester, students re-sitting exams will now have…
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Education Minister pledges to work in partnership with UCU
The UCU Scottish Congress took place in Edinburgh on March 23rd with full involvement of representatives from GCU and with a keynote address given by Education Minister Mike Russell. In contrast to last year’s Congress when GCU members spoke, but did not present motions, almost one third of the motions at Congress this year were…
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GCU unions re-grouping to consider how best to take pensions and conditions fight further
The national executives of three of the unions at GCU have decided in the last week against strike action in the immediate future but are continuing to demand that the scandalous situation regarding their members pay and pensions be resolved by employers and government. On 21st March the national executive of Unite decided to suspend…
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Make every day International Women’s Day says UCU at Glasgow Caledonian
Glasgow Caledonian University’s branch of the UCU celebrated International Women’s Day by releasing a new poster (downloadable here), and a new leaflet (downloadable here: side 1, side 2) pledging to fight for a better deal on casualisation and part time workers and to ensure women’s academic work is given equal value to the work of…
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Caledonian UCU AGM – new faces (but still some places….)
The Caledonian University branch of the UCU held its AGM this week, with elections of a new President, Vice-President and new Membership Secretary, and thanks given to its outgoing and remaining officers for their work over the last, ‘rather eventful’, year. Thanks were paid to retiring Present Vince Mills, stepping sideways in terms of responsibilities…
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The Staff Survey – where’s the gender analysis?
In her latest posting on women at GCU and the work, life balance, ‘Jenna’ asks why there is no gender breakdown of the details in the staff survey. You can find this article on the Women at GCU page here
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Why join a union at GCU? – Five months back pay – that’s one reason!
Staff who were successful in the recent promotions round were shocked to find out that guarantees given by former HR head Jim Gibson were being ignored. A letter from Jim to those applying for promotion clearly stated that the implementation date for the new contracts would be August 1st 2011. However, this was not the…
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A message from UCU
Defend Our Pensions Join the STRIKE tomorrow Picket from 8 Rally at GCU at 11 March from 11:30 Rally at Barrowlands at 1:15 Please come to join the picket of the GCU campus whenever you can. UCU will be picketing from 8am but turn up when you can. Invite your friends and family to the…
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UCU to join Strike Action on the 30th
University staff in the UCU have voted for strike action in the row over changes to public sector pensions. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) in the Scottish Teachers’ Superannuation Scheme (STSS) voted by 2:1 to take strike action in protest at changes to their pensions that would see them pay more and…
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