Month: May 2023

1) Pledge Today For More Strike Pay The next few weeks are crucial branch fundraising weeks. Our branch Pledge Scheme asks members, University of Bristol staff, and all supporters to donate half a day’s pay for every week of the summer assessment period, 2 days’s worth of pay. Pledge today: https://bristolucu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/bristol-ucu-mab-pledge-may-june-23 If you have no […]

Marking and Assessment Boycott Update University of Bristol UCU Consultative Ballot  Our branch strike action consultative ballot is now live, closing Wednesday next week. The email ‘IMPORTANT: University of Bristol UCU consultative ballot’ is in your inbox. Vote ASAP. The question: are you prepared to take strike action, on Friday 16th June, to reverse University’s […]

1) Marking and Assessment Boycott — Week 4 https://bristolucu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/bristol-ucu-mab-pledge-may-june-23 If you are, for example, a Bristol UCU member with no current marking and assessment duties, this is an excellent way to support MAB-ing colleagues.

1) Marking and Assessment Boycott — Week 3 We are now in week 3 of our UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott.   We — hourly-paid staff, education directors, Heads of Schools, School managers, admin and operational staff, academic office holders, markers — are currently not: So far, employers have not budged, instead doubling down on […]

1) University of Bristol Punitive Pay Docking and Bristol UCU Response Following our Emergency Branch Meeting on Monday, and Bristol UCU Executive Committee authorisation, the branch has written to University of Bristol Senior Management to demand that the University of Bristol immediately withdraw its current policy to deduct 50% of pay for partial performance, at […]