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Leicester UCU has ‘paused’ health and safety dispute

Published: 4th December, 2020

Thanks to all members for feeding back your views on the status of our dispute over health and safety concerns and for voting on how to proceed with this dispute. The email sent to all members with that survey outlined the position we had reached through the dispute resolution process can be accessed here. A…

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Changing the Pre-Change Engagement Process

Published: 4th December, 2020

Based on member feedback and the experiences of Leicester UCU representatives attending the numerous pre-change engagement meetings that have been ongoing since late October, we wrote to the Executive Board with a number of concerns and requests, almost all of which have been rejected. This is extremely disappointing given how prominently the staff members leading…

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Leicester UCU in 2

Published: 4th December, 2020

In this week’s update (4 December 2020), Vice Chair, Emma Battell Lowman, updates on LSP redundancies, the equalities work of UCU, and the latest on the dispute.

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Leicester UCU Christmas Wordsearch

Published: 30th November, 2020

Many thanks for attempting the LUCU 2020 wordsearch. Play by looking for the words and when you have found them click on the first letter and the last letter. All words can be in any direction, including backwards. When you have completed the wordsearch you will receive a completion message on the screen. Take a…

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Leicester UCU in 2

Published: 27th November, 2020

In this week’s update (27 November 2020), Vice Chair, Emma Battell Lowman, covers the redundancies facing colleagues in Unison, our sibling union at the University, hopes all our friends and families stay safe as Leicester enters another type of lockdown and the US celebrates Thanksgiving, and invites Leicester UCU folks to share their memories of…

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