1) Donate Today — Supporting UCU MAB-ing Members Our Bristol UCU MAB Salary Scheme Crowdfunder is still open and still accepting donations. If you have not donated, donate today and/or share with friends, colleagues and supporters asking for a donation: https://gofund.me/ed058bc5 Bristol UCU MAB Salary Share Scheme, organized by Bristol UCU Please donate today to […]
Category: Newsflash
1) End of the MAB & Bristol UCU September Strike Action MAB Arrangement Welcome to the first Newsflash of the new 23-24 academic year. Last week we, UCU, withdrew our national marking and assessment boycott, announced 5 further days of strike action, and this week on Monday, we launched our ‘Get The Vote Out’ strike ballot ‘from […]
1) University of Bristol/Bristol UCU MAB Arrangement As shared on Monday with UCU members, University of Bristol and University of Bristol UCU branch have reached an arrangement on the operation of the marking and assessment boycott at Bristol and the treatment of staff currently participating in the boycott. What does this statement mean for staff […]
1) Bristol UCU Graduation Demo Next Week & University of Bristol UNISON Graduation Strike Action University of Bristol UNISON are taking strike action next week, Graduation Ceremonies week, 31st July-3rd August. Bristol UCU will be joining them on their picket lines to publicize our Marking and Assessment Boycott, UoB’s Dodgy Degrees, and our joint pay […]
1) Next Steps: Our Boycott As the threat of pay deductions becomes a reality, and with the prospect of our MAB continuing over the Summer, members are asking: what is the point of MAB-ing now? Fundamentally it hasn’t changed from the first day of the boycott on 20th April. In not marking, and preventing the […]
1) University of Bristol Wall of Shame: Add Your ‘Outrage’ Post your University of Bristol academic standards ‘outrage’ on our Wall of Shame. Click on the ‘+’: https://padlet.com/bristolucuoffice/university-of-bristol-wall-of-shame-mab-2023-swihrxfgnrpkmszf To share with students, stakeholders, politicians, policymakers, and Bristolians. Already we can see examples of: Note: posts are anoymised. The School/Department is not named; posts are moderated. […]
1) University of Bristol Wall of Shame: Bristol UCU Members’ Meeting, Tuesday, 11th July, 13:00-14:00, Microsoft Teams Join Bristol UCU members next Tuesday lunchtime for the launch of our University of Bristol Wall of Shame: Unless our Bristol temporary academic regulations are revoked, and unless the University mitigates its approach to punitive pay docking, the […]
Response to University of Bristol Leadership: Settle Don’t Escalate This Dispute Dear Evelyn, A question if I may: as more and more universities make public statements to restart negotiations in our ongoing pay and conditions dispute, why does the University of Bristol Leadership Team persist in not joining them? What is the cost to the […]
1) Crucial Phase of Our Marking and Assessment Boycott: Exam Boards, Internal/External Examiners, and the ‘10 Days at 50% Pay Cap’ This week, week 10 of our Marking and Assessment Boycott, we have entered a crucial phase in our pay and conditions dispute. Exam Boards are upon us, proxy marks are in the process of […]
1) Open Day Strike Action, Friday, 16th Thanks to everyone who picketed on Friday’s Open Day alongside University of Bristol Unison. Unison are also taking strike action today. 2) Special “Overturn These Temp Regulations’ Senate Today A Special Senate meets today to ‘declare its opinion to the Board of Trustees on whether to overturn’ the University […]