Current Dispute

There will be an Emergency General Meeting for Members of Leeds University UCU on Wednesday 10th February at 1pm in Roger Steven LT22.

The purpose of this meeting is to consider resolutions regarding the next steps in our action. It is important that as many members who can do so attend, so that our campaign to defend jobs and to defend education is most effective.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Leeds have voted overwhelmingly in favour of both strike action and action short of a strike.

63.8% of those who voted supported strike action and 78.1% agreed to action short of a strike. The turnout at 65.8% was exceptionally high for a ballot of this kind, even beating that achieved in the high profile national pay dispute of 2006.

Acas conciliated talks with the university broke down on 4th February without agreement. The Proposal From UCU given to University Management at those talks available to download here.

See more details from Malcolm Povey here

Malcolm Povey's Response to VC's letter to staff on breakdown of ACAS talks available to download here

Letter from Regional Oficial to VC 4/11/09.

Full Details of the Economies Exercise are available on Campus Web http://www.leeds.ac.uk/comms/financial/documents/senate_statement.pdf http://www.leeds.ac.uk/comms/financial/documents/communique1.pdf

Protest 19th November 09

Download a copy of the dispute letter here

Briefing For Students and Parents.

UCU response for deans, pro-deans and heads of schools and services.

Alternative vision to Lord Mandelson's 'Higher Ambitions' document

Leeds, and alternative vision - A statement on behalf of Academic and Academic related staff.

Write to Your MP

Next Local General Meeting

The next planned General Meeting for the University of Leeds UCU will be held on Wednesday 24th February 2010 at 1pm

If any member wishes to submit a motion for debate at that meeting, please email it to Sue Redhead, to be received by noon on Thursday 11th February 2010.

This is the last General Meeting that we have diarised before the deadline for submitting motions to UCU Congress in late May.

If any member would like to submit a motion to be debated at the meeting on 24th Feb and, if passed, subsequently submitted to congress from our Local Association, please send it to Sue Redhead by noon on 11th February. Please clearly mark that this is a motion for congress.

USS Pension Joint Review Group

Readerships

Faculty of Biological Sciences Restructure