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Update from 2025 UCU Congress
By Tom Cowin, outgoing Sussex UCU Vice President and member of the Anti-Casualisation Committee We are writing to report back from the first-ever hybrid UCU Congress — the supreme policy-making body of our union, which determines national policy and strategic direction. This year’s Congress took place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend in Liverpool and…
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Sussex UCU Motion: Support for Unite and UCU Staff
UCU faces a collective industrial dispute with Unite over racism, equality, safety, and management issues. Unite members voted for action, citing UCU’s failure to address concerns adequately. The branch demands UCU to meet employment standards, address racism, and engage with Unite to resolve the dispute. They also plan to support Unite’s demands publicly.
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Success Story: Transforming Doctoral Tutor Contract at Sussex University
In Summer 2022, Sussex UCU triumphed in a marking boycott, securing a new contract for Doctoral Tutors, addressing issues of casualization. The process involved local campaigning, support from the national PGR as Staff Campaign, and negotiating for improved terms and conditions, marking a significant achievement in the fight against casualization.
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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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Uniting Against Academic Casualisation: A Call for Solidarity and Action
In academia, where knowledge production is often celebrated while the labour that creates it is invisibilised, there exists a reality that often goes unnoticed—the precarity of post-graduate researchers (PGRs). As voices behind groundbreaking research and the backbone of undergraduate education, PGRs play a vital role in the academic ecosystem. Yet, they often find themselves navigating…
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Branch priorities with detailed evidence on USS ahead of the UUK conference
Updated: Aug 31, 2023 Image: copy of Figure 3 below, see section 3.2 for details and links to data and analysis. Ahead of the UUK’s annual conference at the University of Manchester, 6-7 September, we have summarised Sussex and IDS UCU priorities on USS, presented with evidence, which we hope to see reflected in the Sussex…
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Sussex and IDS UCU branch draft views on the UUK USS consultation
Updated: Aug 2, 2023 Sussex and Institute of Development Studies (IDS) UCU branch present four draft priorities for the USS consultation in Section 5 below. We are seeking feedback including at the All Campus USS Community Forum on Wednesday 9 August 1pm-2pm. Background nationally: In March 2023 UCU and UUK agreed a joint statement on USS…
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Outsourcing at Sussex set to continue despite initial promises
Background to insourcing consultation In November last year many of us received an email from University of Sussex Vice-Chancellor Sasha Roseneil titled ‘Creating a better campus – the future of campus services’. The email spoke of how ‘the original outsourcing of these services a decade ago caused considerable unhappiness within the University community’ [see the…
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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 financial report by Andrew McGettigan
Read the report in full : McGettigan_Sussex_Annual_report_2022_review_PUBLIC_Jan_2023.pdf The report linked above was prepared for Sussex UCU by Andrew McGettigan, an expert in university finances, using the Sussex Financial Statements 2021/22 [1] Sussex UCU Exec and Reps, January 2023 We encourage everyone to read the report by Andrew, linked above, in full. Below are excerpts, additional…
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