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Terrible weather but great turnout for better pay!
Unison members at Glasgow Caledonian University were out in force today on the first of four days of strike action in favour of better pay. Under the banner of rising together for better pay, the staff, whose roles cover administration, library staff, student support, IT, maintenance, cleaning, catering, security and more, were determined to make…
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Students’ right to appeal marks and grades
Dear students, On 24 May, UCU@GCU published the blog post ‘Students – we believe management are endangering the integrity of your degree –UCU@GCU’. In it, we expressed our worry that GCU management has implemented corner-cutting measures in marking and assessment that may endanger the integrity of your degree. GCU management has implemented these measures in…
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Management threat to access staff e-mails due to dispute shocks campus unions
The UCU are in a legal and legitimate dispute with management at GCU over wages pay and conditions. Currently the dispute is taking the form of members working to contract and implementing a Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) by refusing to mark and assess students work. Staff had made a cogent case for no deductions…
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Solidarity towards UCU @ GCU
Colleagues in Media and Journalism were copied in to this e-mail from UCU member @ Ulster University, Dr Anthea Irwin, who felt compelled to resign as external examiner for the Media and Communications degree following GCU Management’s actions over deductions. The e-mail is self explanatory Subject: Resigning my position as external examiner Dear Professor Stephen Decent …
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Students – we believe management are endangering the integrity of your degree – UCU@GCU
The following statement was made public by UCU@GCU today (24th May 2023). On 16th May, a draft of this was given to GCU management to comment on as they might wish, and the publishing of the statement was delayed but the opportunity to comment was not taken up. If management wish to comment on the…
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We deeply regret university management’s failure of vision and of nerve – UCU@GCU
Glasgow Caledonian university branch of the UCU today expressed their deep disappointment with GCU management for what the branch see as a failure of vision and of nerve. This follows the management declining to take what the branch had seen as a helpful approach within the current stage of the marking and assessment boycott. Two…
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UCU and Student Officers discuss Marking and Assessment Boycott
UCU branch committee members had their first meeting with the newly elected Student Association Sabbatical officers last week (Tuesday 16th May) where we welcomed them to their posts, and intimated that together with the other campus unions we looked forward to working constructively with them over this coming year. In a wide ranging discussion over…
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UCU launches Marking and Assessment Boycott
After an overwhelming positive vote which renews UCU’s mandate for industrial action over the next six months, UCU members at over 140 UK universities today (Thursday 20th April) launched a marking and assessment boycott. Below you will see the message to all members from Jo Grady the General Secretary of the union. The University and…
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Weather, what weather? We want fair pay
Despite some good Glasgow weather (aka dreich, dreich, dreich, and the wind blowing a hooley) UCU and EIS Union members were out before 8 am today at Glasgow Caledonian making the case for financial justice and fair pay at our ‘University for the common good. With some good Spotify playlists courtesy of Karen and others…
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Spirits high on day three of our Industrial Action
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…
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