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1) UCU Strike Action Tomorrow UCU’s Higher Education Committee will determine the timing, length, and form of forthcoming UCU strike action. Details to follow shortly. Bristol UCU and UK UCU members have fed back their preferences via our recent UCU survey [link], branch meetings and via our branch delegates [link]. UCU members have expressed a preference for taking […]

1) Bristol UCU Branch Meeting: Wednesday, 26th October, 13:00-14:00, Microsoft Teams Our first scheduled Bristol UCU Branch Meeting is Wednesday next week. The main item of business: consulting with members on next steps following the close of the industrial action ballot. Join the Branch Meeting via Microsoft Teams, using the link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDgyNmRkYzQtYTQ4Yi00NzQ1LTg5NjQtZjc3ZWE4Njc0M2Y4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b2e47f30-cd7d-4a4e-a5da-b18cf1a4151b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22808b1cd4-a148-40b5-9088-03701d876c24%22%7d Ballot results will […]

1) Branch All-Members Meeting: Wednesday, 12th October, 13:00-14:00, Microsoft Teams Open to all Bristol UCU members: an all-members meeting and Get The Vote Out Rally, Wednesday 12 October, 1pm on Teams Just over two weeks to go in the current ballot on whether to take industrial action: if you haven’t, please vote. The Teams link […]

1) Vote Now, Vote Early You should have got your ballot papers in the post. Click on the link below to order a replacement ballot if you have not yet got your ballot papers: Also click on the link to let UCU know if you have already voted in the ballot (‘I’ve already voted so […]

1) Ballot Papers In The Post: Vote Now, Vote Early Bristol UCU Newsflash returns from its summer break with one item. You will be receiving a lot of UCU emails. Newsflash keeps it short and snappy. From today, Bristol UCU members will be getting their strike ballot papers in the post. This week our Bristol UCU Get The Vote […]

1) Summer Newsflash takes a two-week break, returning just as UCU starts another Get The Vote Out [link] campaign in August, and the terms of our new Branch Officer team, Executive Committee and Branch Reps begin in earnest. Newsflash’s break does not mean the branch breaks.   Whether re-establishing trade union consultation rights, working on a local USS […]

1) Exceptional Recognition Payment and Union Consultation Bristol UCU reps, along with Unison and Unite reps, restated their point that the decision on the part of University Management and the Board of Trustees not to consult trade unions about the terms of the Exceptional Recognition Payment did not respect our Union Recognition Agreements’ commitment to […]

1) Industrial Action Ballot Bristol UCU and all UCU HE members will be balloted in October on strike action, with a view to taking strike action in November over our 4 Fights and USS disputes. 2) USS Update, July 2022 For an update on the USS legal challenge and more, please see 3) Calling Notice: […]

1) Exceptional Recognition Payment UCU, along with the other campus unions Unite and Unite, while welcoming the Exceptional Recognition Payment (campus unions have been calling for an all-staff bonus for several years), note with dismay the terms of Payment. See our Bristol UCU statement: https://bristolucu.wordpress.com/2022/06/24/bristol-ucu-statement-exceptional-recognition-payment-june-2022/ In short, campus unions: call on all staff, regardless of contract type, […]

1) Annual General Meeting, Wednesday 8th June 2022, 13:00-14:00: Teams Link, Agenda & Papers To join the branch AGM on Wednesday, 8th June, click on the Teams link below: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjhlNjZhZWQtOTU0MC00NzE1LTlkZmMtZTQxMTA1ZTNjMzVi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b2e47f30-cd7d-4a4e-a5da-b18cf1a4151b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22808b1cd4-a148-40b5-9088-03701d876c24%22%7d Agenda: Minutes of the Previous Annual General Meeting (AGM), 9 June 2021 Treasurer’s Report and Statement of Income and Expenditure Election of Branch Officers and […]