Tag: higher-education
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Senate has requested that Council reconsider its decision on USS
Updated: Mar 20, 2022 Sussex Council will meet on 1 April to reconsider its decision to support pension cuts. The following motion, drafted by the University Secretary, passed at the Senate meeting on 16 March 2022 by 27 for, 4 abstain, 7 against “Senate is dissatisfied with the decision made by Council in relation to the…
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Betrayed by University leadership over USS pensions
Updated: Mar 20, 2022 24 February 2022 Sussex UCU negotiators learned today that the University of Sussex Council, following advice from the interim Vice Chancellor, has voted in favour of significantly cutting Sussex staff’s future USS pensions. For early career staff this means by a third or more. The reason given was that this was the…
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On support for the UCU proposals
Sussex UCU will present to Council on Friday 18 February 2022. This is the accompanying paper, prepared on behalf of Sussex UCU Note added 3 March 2021: this paper is now also available on Sussex Direct [login required] Executive summary The UCU proposals are: Council support for the UCU Proposals would help maintain a sustainable…
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Sussex UCU Message to Our Students
Updated: Mar 18, 2022 Monday 14 March, 2022 Why are we still striking and what can you do? To our students, You will be aware that industrial action continues at Sussex and at 67 other universities across the UK, including five further days of strike action over 21 – 25 March, as part of UCU’s dispute…
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The UCU dispute with the University of Sussex on USS & casualisation, inequality, workload and pay
Sussex UCU will present at a pre-Council meeting from 9:00-9:30am on Friday 26 November 2021. This is the accompanying UCU paper for the same meeting. We expect it will be available on the Council pages of Sussex Direct in the near future. As Council is aware UCU is in dispute with the University of Sussex.…
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Corrections to statements in the email from the Interim VC on UCU strikes
In his email of 19th November, Interim VC David McGuire gives his version of the reason for the current strikes. UCU Sussex would like to make clear that this is a misrepresentation of the real issues. If we are to resolve this dispute it is important that we base discussions not on misleading rhetoric but…
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DTs and UCU in the Business School win fight over DT pay cut
On 8 September, the Business School announced a pay cut for all Doctoral Tutors (DTs), the youngest, most diverse, and most precarious of University staff. The cut consisted of a reduction of the hours paid to tutors for each repeated teaching hour from x3 to x2, a pay cut of up to 28%. But tutors…
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Sussex UCU declares dispute over threat of compulsory redundancies
Friday 4 June 2021 We publish this blog post to share an urgent update regarding the negotiations over possible compulsory redundancies at the University of Sussex, and to lay out how together UCU members at Sussex can make sure that job losses don’t happen. The headline news is that the University Executive Group (UEG) has…
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