Tag: 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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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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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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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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