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  • Collective Consultation Summary

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    UCU Report Dear members, In total, UNITE, Unison and UCU represented staff at seven formal Collective Consultation meetings between 11th June and 15th July. As the summaries of those meetings noted, the consultation was mostly productive and conducted in good faith. We worked with management to identify issues with the process and proposals and to…

  • Collective Consultation meeting, June 18th 2026

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    Wellbeing, Organisational Stress Risk Assessment and Equality Impact Analyses UNISON, UNITE and UCU joint report The second collective consultation meeting was focused on the EDI and wellbeing related aspects of the redundancy proposals. This covered the wellbeing support available to staff, the organisational stress risk assessment and the equality impact analyses conducted for both the…

  • Size and Shape survey

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    The University has grown fond of surveying staff and faculty. Unfortunately, they are not as fond of sharing the results. Typically, we only get to see fragments of the data and summaries of the results. The University does not feel compelled to meet the standards of reporting survey results that are common in academic journals,…

  • 15 reasons why face-to-face teaching should not be compulsory in a pandemic

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    The position of Sussex UCU, as confirmed by vote in our EGM of 28 September, is that face-to-face (in-person) teaching, like all on-campus work during the pandemic, should be voluntary, and not compulsory, and should not carry the threat of disciplinary actions and dismissal. Sussex UCU supports the UCU national position that universities should take…

  • Letter to VC from a UCU Member

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    UCU Reps and Exec fully endorse the following letter that was sent to the Vice Chancellor from one of our branch members: Dear Professor Tickell, I am writing to express my dismay, frustration and hurt at your latest ‘View from the VC’ of 1/10/2020, which – to my mind – epitomises and makes explicit the…

  • Face to face teaching and voluntary on-campus work

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    We note the messages to staff and students in the last few days from the VC, the PVC for Education, and the Chief Operating Officer, as well as the email to all staff Return to campus: guidance for all staff, and the most recent Return to campus webinar. A consistent theme of these messages is…