Tag: elections
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Demands from the PGRs as Staff Campaign following stalling negotiations
Updated: Nov 16, 2022 Since June 2022, when the UCU boycott agreement (read Sussex UCU press release) was reached with university management, UCU PGR reps have been working on negotiations towards a new DT contract. As PGRs at Sussex, we are negotiating with management to secure an ambitious DT contract that seeks to resolve FIVE KEY…
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Jobs saved as UEG look set to confirm no Size and Shape compulsory redundancies
Dear colleagues, Sometimes working in HE can seem like an endless onslaught of bad news: pensions, pay, restructures, redundancies, workload, casualisation, discrimination, outsourcing – and all in the context of a global pandemic. It’s all too easy to feel powerless as staff and as union members. That’s why it’s important to celebrate our victories –…
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UCU Sussex Anti-Racist Action Plan 2020
Following our branch meeting on anti-racist organising last week, a working group has formed to develop an action plan which we now share below and as a downloadable PDF here. This plan represents a starting place for dismantling structures of white supremacy at Sussex. We see this as a broad collective project and would like…
Sussex UCU, Brighton, UK 