Nb. this is the last Newsflash of the current 2017/18 academic year – ‘Flash is taking a summer break, returning in September 2018 1) Update – UCU in Dispute Yesterday (Tuesday, 24th July) UCU wrote to the University of Bristol Vice-Chancellor, and all other VCs and Heads of Institutions represented by UCEA, the negotiating body […]
Month: July 2018
UCU Congress 2018 agreed to elect a Democracy Commision ‘to review the democratic structures of the union and to bring recommendations to a special one-day Congress next year’. The University of Bristol UCU branch is entitled to put forward one member for election to the Commision. Bristol UCU members are invited to nominate themselves as […]
1) Gender Pay Claim Bristol UCU reps and University reps had our second formal meeting about the Gender Pay Claim on Thursday last week. We are pleased to report that things are beginning to move in the right direction. For example, it was agreed that we would receive a response to our Bristol UCU draft […]
1) National Strike Ballot – Consultative Pay Ballot Result The results of the recent consultative e-ballot are in: UCU HE members have voted to reject the employers’ final below inflation and employers’ inaction regarding gender pay and casual contracts. In the consultative e-ballot, UCU members indicated their support for industrial action. Members will now be […]
1) Local Hardship Fund – Change of Eligibility We are now welcoming applications from academic and professional services staff on Grade J, for example, lecturing staff on profile b, Pathway 2 Senior Research Associates and Pathway 3 Senior Teaching Associates. Bristol UCU’s Executive has agreed to the proposal that the branch now opens up our […]