Category: Newsflash

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 […]

1) MAB From Tomorrow Tomorrow is the first day of our Marking and Assessment Boycott. For more information: https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/12870/University-and-College-Union-serves-notice-for-marking-boycott-at-150-UK-universities Please note: there is a 45-min MAB Teams branch meeting today at 13:15. To join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTk5Nzk4ZGUtOTM5Yi00ZmU2LWE1MTEtZmRhOWU1ZmY4Yzc4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b2e47f30-cd7d-4a4e-a5da-b18cf1a4151b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2284bed226-036c-4d6a-8636-53c81afae48a%22%7d 2) Calling Notice: Bristol UCU Annual General Meeting including Election of Branch Officers and Exec Members, Wednesday 7 June, 13:00–14:00 […]

1) The Next Few Weeks YOU Decide As Bristol UCU Newsflash takes a short Spring Vacation break, we know that the next few weeks are key in our UCU disputes.   We await the formal notification of a Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB). We look forward to UCU members’ decision in the current consultation (YOU decide: formal consultation […]

** UCU members are taking strike action from 15th-17th March, and 20th-22nd March** Bristol UCU Picket Lines, Wednesday, 15th March For a list of picket lines: https://www.ucubristol.org.uk/campaigns/bristol-ucu-picket-lines-wednesday-15th-march/ We are also picketing on the final day of scheduled strike action, Wednesday, 22nd March.   Local Hardship Fund, Notification of Taking Strike Action, Strike Pay Deductions, Action Short […]

1) Picket Lines, Wednesday 15th March, From 08:30 2) Branch General Meeting, Thursday, 23rd March, 13:00-14:00, Microsoft Teams The regularly scheduled March Branch General Meeting now falls on a strike day, so it has been rescheduled for Thursday 23 March at 1pm to be held on Microsoft Teams.   An agenda and link to the […]

1) Branch All-Members Meeting, Wednesday, 1st March, 14:00-15:00, via Microsoft Teams Bristol UCU members are invited to an all-members Teams meeting Wednesday next week at 2pm. On the agenda [link]: To join the all-members meeting on 1st March@2pm, click on the Teams link below: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzMxNjU3ZjktMTdlYS00NDg4LWI0NTQtMWI5NDMzYjdkZTE3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b2e47f30-cd7d-4a4e-a5da-b18cf1a4151b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22808b1cd4-a148-40b5-9088-03701d876c24%22%7d