Thursday 16 July 2009

England FE Pay Offer

Branches are being asked to convene meetings before 16 September to discuss whether members wish to accept the 1.5% pay offer for 2009/10, or reject and ballot for national strike action. The FE Sector Conference on 19 September will then decide the unions position.


Full details of the conference including venue, delegation entitlements and registration have now been sent to branches as a formal circular which can be downloaded at http://www.ucu.org.uk/circ/html/UCU196.html

Friday 10 July 2009

Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL)

Latest CALL bulletin out now : fighting cuts in Lifelong Learning

The latest bulletin from the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL) is now available online here http://www.callcampaign.org.uk/?cat=16. CALL was founded by a coalition of organisations including UCU, to campaign for lifelong learning opportunities for all, and to fight the cuts in Adult Learning that have seen two million learners’ places lost since 2005.

The bulletin contains all the latest information on how you can support CALL and how UCU members are fighting cuts at institutions like Tower Hamlets college where half of all ESOL, literacy and numeracy courses offered are under threat. You can also find out if your member of parliament is one of the 185 MPs that have signed the early day motion on lifelong learning and what to do if they haven’t!

Support the fight for jobs at Leeds University

Members are asked to support Leeds University UCU’s campaign against 100 job cuts in the schools of Biological Sciences and Healthcare. The branch is building the campaign into a coordinated fightback against cuts in the region, holding a meeting recently attended by speakers from Leeds Metropolitan, which is also cutting jobs, Bradford College and Leeds College of Art and Design.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
Please sign the petition against cuts at Leeds at: www.ucu.org.uk/leedsjobcuts

And you can download the local newsletter with more information on job cuts at Leeds at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ucu/200809/June09.pdf