Tag: students
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Join Us: Sign our Open Letter to Vice Chancellor, Sasha Roseneil – Divest from Israel’s Colonial Genocide
UCU stands in solidarity with those fighting for justice and human rights, calling on the University to divest from companies complicit in Israel’s colonial genocide. They urge support in signing an open letter to the Vice Chancellor, outlining demands for divestment and ethical investment policies. The motion affirms moral responsibility and advocates for meaningful change,…
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UCU-USSU joint statement on Sussex summer graduation 2023
Following feedback from students, representatives from the Students’ Union and Sussex UCU have met several times this week to discuss plans for graduation. We have collectively listened to, and responded to student and UCU members’ concerns around any potential disruption to graduation ceremonies in the context of the ongoing marking and assessment boycott. UCU (with…
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Sussex UEG meet Sussex UCU’s demands
Members agree to the University Executive Group’s offer and vote to end the marking and assessment boycott. The University of Sussex University Executive Group (UEG) have accepted University and College Union (UCU) Sussex’s demands on three issues (Four Fights, the USS pension, and local Size and Shape) which will immediately end the marking and assessment…
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UCU Sussex votes to support campaign for resignation of external examiners
UUK and the VC’s have recently voted to implement cuts to USS benefits, averaging 35%. 93 institutions voted in favour of that decision including the University of Sussex. We need to pressure these institutions to change their positions, and ensure that the robbery of members’ pensions does not go unanswered. To that end, at its…
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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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A critique of the Size and Shape project
The University of Sussex has justified the timing and scope of the Size and Shape project under the heading ‘Why Size and Shape is important, Read about what we need to do and, therefore, why this work matters.’ In response to this document, we contend that the Size and Shape project is poorly thought out,…
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Sussex union and students press the University to halt redundancies at Chartwells
As the University of Sussex’s catering contractor Chartwells presses ahead with plans to make 70% of its staff redundant on 17 November despite the extension of the government furlough scheme, unions and students have written to the University outlining why it must step in to stop this. 23 October 2020 From: Sussex campus unions To:…
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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 