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, […]
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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 […]
1) Reminder: TOMORROW, In Celebration of Women, On The Day They Stop Getting Paid Tomorrow the University of Bristol effectively stops paying female staff for the rest of the year, a consequence of the 16.2% gender pay gap. To mark this day, building on the huge success of our International Women’s Day event (which coincided […]
1) Pay & Equality Ballot Result The results of the pay and equality ballot are in. Bristol UCU members voted by 72% to 28% in favour of taking industrial action, and 81.7%/18.3% in favour of action short of a strike up to and including a marking and assessment boycott. Unfortunately, we did not meet the […]
Don’t Delay, Vote Today Today is the last day to return your UCU pay and equality ballot paper by post. Any delay and it won’t reach Electoral Reform Service HQ by the deadline – ballot closes this Friday, 19th October. Let’s get this vote over the line. Show your support and take a stand against […]
Bristol UCU submitted our Anti-Casualisation Claim last week. To read the Claim in full, please click on the link below: https://tinyurl.com/BristolUCUACCoct2018 Hot on the heels of our Gender Pay Claim, the Anti-Casualisation Claim asks the University of Bristol to enter into consequential negotiations with Bristol UCU in order to address ‘the employment of staff on […]
1) Gender Pay Claim The University of Bristol and Bristol UCU have agreed a Joint Statement of Intent regarding the Gender Pay Gap. For the full statement: https://www.ucubristol.org.uk/files/2018/10/Joint-Statment-of-Intent-University-of-Bristol-and-Bristol-UCU-299gt6k.pdf The Statement notes ‘the University of Bristol and UCU recognise that, although the gender pay gap needs to be tackled across the whole of the University, there […]
1) Calling All USS Members – Say No to Cost Sharing From April 2019 If the Joint Evaluation Panel (JEP) Report has demonstrated anything, it is that USS’s current proposals to introduce steep rises in employers’ and employees’ contributions from April 2019 are unnecessary and should be suspended asap. It is in the interests of […]