1) USS and Four Fights UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) met on Monday to agree the next steps in our current USS and 4 Fights disputes. The timetable for action on both USS + 4 Fights is: Monday 18 October – ballots open Thursday 4 November – ballots close Monday 8 November – HEC meets […]
Month: September 2021
1) ‘Surviving Your Casualised Contract, Bristol UCU Anti-Casualisation Workshop, Wednesday, 29th September 2021, 17:00-18:00, Microsoft Teams Calling all casualised staff (new and old)! UCU Bristol Branch and the Bristol Anti-Precarity Network are pleased to present their inaugural virtual workshop event, which will serve as a ‘survival guide’ for anyone in casual or precarious employment at […]
1) Message from the President Firstly, may I take this opportunity in this ‘welcome back’ Newsflash to say that I hope that members have had a chance to take some well-earned leave. If the last academic year was, to put mildly, ‘challenging’, this academic year promises to be equally if not more so. This is certainly not […]