Published: 6th March, 2018
LUCU Message of Support and Solidarity with the SU and Students Occupying the Fielding Johnson Building Leicester UCU want to extend their deep support and gratitude to the Leicester Students’ Union and all those involved in the occupation of the Fielding Johnson Building. You have set an excellent example to everyone in your actions…
Published: 5th March, 2018
Dear David Willetts We are writing to ask you to stand down as Chancellor Elect with immediate effect, as an act of good faith in the wider interests of the University of Leicester. As you know, your appointment as Chancellor did not arise as a result of consultation with our university staff or with students. You…
Published: 5th March, 2018
On Monday morning students began an occupation of the Fielding Johnson Building, the University of Leicester’s main administration building at the centre of campus, in solidarity with striking university staff and in protest at the proposed appointment of David Willetts as Chancellor. Leicester UCU would like to extend a message of gratitude and reciprocal solidarity…
Published: 2nd March, 2018
We began the day knowing that UUK and UCU had agreed to go into arbitration talks with ACAS: a very positive step that shows our action is getting results. Some people may wonder why we’re still striking now that talks are due to recommence. The answer is very simple: we cannot countenance dropping the pressure…
Published: 2nd March, 2018
Despite the snow starting to fall and below freezing temperatures, day 4 saw our biggest turn-out of protesting staff and students yet. Has to have been more than 200. The Socialist Students society joined us early on the picket line to gather signatures on a petition in support of striking staff. We marched around…
Published: 2nd March, 2018
As the second week of strike action began, it was freezing, but that didn’t dampen our spirits and there was an even bigger turn out of staff on the picket lines, making much noise and garnering lots of supportive honks from passing traffic. As promised, we returned to Fielding Johnson Building in the expectation…
Published: 23rd February, 2018
STATEMENT FROM JON ASHWORTH MP Member of Parliament for Leicester South 15 February 2018 UCU Pensions Dispute Meeting I am sorry that I cannot be with you today. I was extremely disappointed to hear that at the recent USS Joint Negotiating Committee the Universities UK proposals to fundamentally change your pension from a defined benefit…
Published: 23rd February, 2018
The second day of strike action is often the first test of a union’s resolve, and our members as always did not let us down. In bitterly cold temperatures members and our supporters turned out. Today we estimated that we had around 80-100 staff and supporters on our picket lines which started bright and breezy…
Published: 18th February, 2018
At the end of this week, the University of Leicester released a, at best, bizarre press release exalting the visit of Lord David Willetts to the University of Leicester on Thursday. There is a small reference to the protest held by UCU and students, but we’d like to point out to the University that there were probably…
Published: 16th February, 2018
As explained in the Strike FAQ, UCU members should not read or respond to any emails whilst on strike, and should immediately delete, unread, all emails on return to work — except for those from students. During strike periods, we ask you to put an out-of-office auto-reply on your emails. We suggest the following text — though of course…
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