Tag: union

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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…

Sussex UEG offer on Four Fights and USS demands

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Sussex UCU EGM (Emergency General Meeting) to discuss voting on UEG’s latest offer. 1pm-2pm, 31 May, Zoom link in members’ email. UCU banner Members have been invited to attend an EGM at 1pm 31 May to discuss the latest developments in the dispute. This is a crucial moment in the dispute – the marking boycott…

Betrayed by University leadership over USS pensions

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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…

On support for the UCU proposals

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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…

Jobs saved as UEG look set to confirm no Size and Shape compulsory redundancies

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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 –…

The UCU dispute with the University of Sussex on USS & casualisation, inequality, workload and pay

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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.…

Sussex UCU response to the UUK consultation on the USS valuation

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