Making a difference
How UCU is working toward and winning greater continuity of employment and better pay for casualised staff.
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4 July 2018
The University of Edinburgh has agreed to a timetable of negotiations to address the union's concerns over casualisation.
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14 June 2018
The last two weeks have seen London FE branches winning significant improvements for hourly paid lecturers in settlement of disputes over pay and casualisation.
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14 June 2018
UCU recently circulated its new HE campaign pack to help branches develop local claims on casualisation and to build structured supporting campaign plans to put…
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18 May 2018
UCU has welcomed a move by Durham University to scrap the use of nine-month contracts for teaching staff. The university made the decision following an online campaign…
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5 March 2018
The BBC publishes an article on the often precarious nature of academic careers and the hugely negative impact on those starting out in academia. The article comes…
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16 March 2017
UCU has consistently campaigned for the rights of casual and fixed term staff in higher education. In 2015 this included pursuing a case to the Supreme Court, against…
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