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1) ‘Post Your Vote’, TODAY, 6th February, Post Box outside Hawthorns @1pm Please join us this lunchtime at 1pm to ‘post your vote’ at the postbox outside the Hawthorns, and help us push through the 50% ballot threshold – whichever way you vote, just vote! https://tinyurl.com/PostYourVote6thFeb If you have already voted please come along anyway […]

1) ‘Post Your Vote’, Wednesday, 6th February, Post Box outside Hawthorns @1pm Join us Wednesday next week at 1pm to ‘post your vote’ at the postbox outside the Hawthorns: https://tinyurl.com/PostYourVote6thFeb Even if you have already voted in the current UCU Pay and Equality industrial ballot, please come along and ‘post’ one of our large A2 […]

1) Pay and Equality Ballot Now Open The new ballot for industrial action over UCU’s Pay and Equality claim opened yesterday, 15th January, and will close on 22nd February. Watch out for your ballot papers at your registered address, and don’t forget to vote! Further details: https://ucu.org.uk/he2018 If you’d like to lend a hand in […]

As is tradition with our last ‘Flash of the calendar year, your Newsflash team reviews a bumper 2018 Newsflash crop, a year in University of Bristol UCU and UCU history that no one will forget: ‘we ARE the University and we will make change happen’. January–March 2018 started with a bang: ‘Vote Yes, Vote Now […]

Pay & Equality Ballot & Get The Vote Out UCU’s 2019 kicks off with a brand new industrial action ballot on pay, casualisation, workload and the gender pay gap. Please look out for your paper ballot form, which will arrive in the post to the address you have registered with UCU. The ballot opens on […]

1) Humans. Not Resources. Launch Event Last Week Thanks to everyone who came to our Humans. Not Resources. launch event last week, a launch event for our branch Anti-Casualisation Claim [link] and our Human. Not Resources. campaign. We also met last week with University Executive Group members and HR senior management to discuss the Claim, […]

1) Final Reminder: Humans. Not Resources, TODAY, 17:00-19:00, Social Science Complex Cafe Bristol UCU is proud to present Humans. Not Resources, the launch event for the campaign in support of Bristol UCU’s current Anti-Casualisation Claim: https://tinyurl.com/BristolUCUACCoct2018 Join us for an Anti-Casualisation soirée today, between 5pm-7pm, in the Soc.Sci.Complex Cafe, University of Bristol. To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/humans-not-resources-tickets-52210909235 […]

Dear Bristol UCU Member, To register for Humans. Not Resources, go to our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/humans-not-resources-tickets-52210909235 Bristol UCU is proud to present Humans. Not Resources, the launch event for the campaign in support of Bristol UCU’s current Anti-Casualisation Claim: https://tinyurl.com/BristolUCUACCoct2018 Join us for an Anti-Casualisation soirée on Wednesday, 21st November, between 5pm-7pm, in the Social […]

1) Higher Education Sector Conference & Bristol UCU General Meeting Next Week Higher Education Sector Conference (HESC) meets in Manchester today to discuss pay and pensions. Motions are available here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/hesc_nov2018 The branch is represented by Suzy Cheeke (Vice-President), Lucy Langley-Palmer (Equalities Officer) and Jamie Melrose (Branch Secretary). In our indicative branch survey, 73% of […]