Category: Newsflash

1. Bristol UCU General Meeting, Wednesday 16th October 13:00 – 14:00 on Teams This is our first GM of the new academic year.  All members welcome!  Agenda: 1.       Apologies & Minutes of the Last General Meeting.  GM 13th March 2024 (attached). 2.       Members’ views on the UCEA offer 2024-25. 3.       UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) consultative […]

1. New Branch Officers for 2024-25 We’re very fortunate to have several new Branch Officers on the team this year.  Firstly, two Equalities Officers joined us in September, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh and Emilie Poletto-Lawson.  Afua will be focusing on racial equality. Previously Afua was the inaugural Chair of the BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) Staff Network at […]

1. UCU South West Black Members’ Network Launch. 16th October 2024, 10:00 – 12:00 on Teams Any members who identify as Black are invited to the launch of UCU SW Black Members’ Network.  The meeting is scheduled to take place between 10.00 – 12:00pm but may finish earlier.  The Teams link details are below: Join the meeting […]

1. The first UCU South West Region Equalities Conference. Wednesday 2nd October 2024, 5.00pm to 7.00pm, on Teams Every UCU member is welcome!  Maxine Looby, President of UCU, has agreed to open the conference.  Kevin Daws, South West Regional Equality Officer asks: ‘How can we work together to make Equalities a part of the DNA of Colleges and […]

1. Bristol UCU General Meeting Wednesday 16th October 13:00 – 14:00 on Teams This is our first GM of the new academic year.  All members welcome!  The agenda will be shared with members in Newsflash and in meeting updates.  One agenda item for discussion by members will certainly be UCEA’s 2024-25 offer.  Please join the meeting here [LINK]. Meeting […]

1.         UCEA Full and Final Offer September 2024 Welcome back! This is a single item Newsflash for members to give their views on UCEA’s final 2024-25 offer. ***More info, updates and developments at Bristol UCU to follow in the next couple of weeks.*** Summary: After dispute resolution meetings in August 2024, UCEA gave its final offer on […]

1.         Bristol Palestine Solidarity Camp Legal Action Bristol UCU is deeply concerned that legal action is being taken by University of Bristol against student protestors.  We have urged the University’s Executive Board to ensure that students’ freedom of assembly and expression protected. A possession order to evict the encampment protestors was declined on Friday 5th July 2024, although further […]

1) Bristol Palestine Solidarity Camp and Legal Action.  July 2024.  Bristol UCU is deeply concerned that legal action is being taken by University of Bristol against student protestors.  We have urged the University’s Executive Board to ensure that students’ freedom of assembly and expression protected.  We’re aware that a possession order to evict the encampment […]

1) Branch Annual General Meeting, 13:00-14:00, Wednesday 5th June, 2024, Microsoft Teams All Bristol UCU members are invited to the online branch AGM on Wednesday, 5th June@ 1pm. One item on the agenda: election of branch officers and the branch Executive Committee for 2024-25. One key issue: with long-standing branch officer and current Branch President Jamie Melrose […]

1) Pay and Grade Structure Proposals: Joint Union Update Following the approval by both University of Bristol Unite and UCU branches of the University’s pay and grade structure proposals — the phased removal of bottom spine points from grades and the addition of new top spine points to grades —, UNISON branch have voted to reject these […]