Loughborough UCU

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  • LUCU General Meeting

    LUCU General Meeting

    LUCU General Meeting (GM) for all members.

    This will take place in SMB017 – this is on the ground floor of Stewart Mason and online via MS Teams.

    Further details including the location of and an agenda for this General Meeting will be provided to all members, by email, two weeks before this meeting.

    We hope to see you there.

  • LUCU General Meeting

    LUCU General Meeting

    LUCU General Meeting (GM) for all members.

    Further details including the location of and an agenda for this General Meeting will be provided to all members, by email, before this meeting.

    We hope to see you there.

  • LUCU General Meeting

    LUCU General Meeting

    LUCU General Meeting (GM) for all members will be held on MS Teams.

    Further details and an agenda for this General Meeting have been provided to all members, by email. Get in touch with the branch if you have not received this.

    We hope to see you there.

  • LUCU General Meeting

    LUCU General Meeting

    LUCU General Meeting (GM) for all members.

    This will take place in EHB002 and online via MS Teams.

    Motions are requested before the deadline of midday on 19th November. Further details of the General Meeting have been provided to all members, by email, two weeks before the meeting. An agenda will be provided one week before the meeting.

    We hope to see you there.

  • LUCU Committee Meeting

    LUCU Committee Meeting

    Branch committee meeting, committee members invited. Department Reps can attend by request. Currently held online.

  • LUCU Committee Meeting

    LUCU Committee Meeting

    Branch committee meeting, committee members invited. Department Reps can attend by request. Currently held online.

  • Pay and Conditions Consultative Strike Ballot

    Please use your vote

    Members will have seen recent communications from UCU about the results of this year’s pay negotiations and the subsequent consultative ballot on our attitude towards possible strike action. 

    The outcome of this indicative ballot will steer UCU strategy on whether to issue a formal strike ballot, so it is crucial that the results reflect the preferences of the membership as a whole. 

    Please take 1 minute to indicate your position using the link in the email titled “IMPORTANT: UCU higher education pay and working conditions consultative ballot”, which arrived on Monday the 21st. The ballot closes on the 15th of August.

    Branch Meeting

    We will be holding an online General Meeting to discuss the issue on Wednesday the 13th of August at 1pm. This will help the branch committee to understand the feeling in the branch, as well as giving us all an opportunity to discuss, and ask questions about, the situation and its implications.

    Please use the link emailed to members on 25th July to join the meeting at 1pm on the 13th August.

  • LUCU Annual General Meeting & Branch Social

    A reminder that all LUCU members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of Loughborough University branch of UCU.

    Please note the location of the AGM & branch social has moved to the Edward Herbert Building, EHB 002.

    The AGM will be held on Wednesday 2nd July at 12:30pm, this will be a hybrid meeting, in person in the Edward Herbert Building in room EHB 002 and online via Microsoft Teams. We encourage in person attendance where possible.

    The AGM will be followed by a Branch Social, an opportunity to meet some of your fellow UCU members from across the university. This will take place immediately after the AGM until 4pm in the same room as the AGM (EHB 002). The branch will be providing light refreshments and snacks. We hope to see you there.

    The agenda for the AGM, including a motion, and text of a proposed change to Staff Conditions of Service (to be voted on by members at the AGM) has been emailed to all members on the 18th June. If you have any amendments to the motion, please provide these in writing by replying to the email from 18th June by no later than 12pm (midday) on Wednesday 25th June. Minutes of the previous AGM and quorate GMs for approval at this meeting, were also attached to the email, along with a calendar appointment and the link to join online. If you are a member of UCU based at Lboro and have not received the AGM Agenda email, please contact the branch by emailing ucu@lboro.ac.uk

    We hope to see you at the meeting and the branch social.

  • Notice of Annual General Meeting

    Members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Loughborough University branch of UCU.

    The Meeting

    We plan for your AGM to be held in a hybrid format, both in person and online (via Microsoft Teams) on Wednesday 2nd July at 12:30pm. More information on this, including a link to join and an agenda, will be provided two weeks in advance of the meeting.

    Motions

    At this point we would like to request motions for the AGM. Please submit any motions to ucu@lboro.ac.uk by the deadline of 11th June at Midday. If you have an idea for a motion but need some help forming it as a motion, please get in touch and we can support you. 

    Nominations for Branch Officers and Committee Members

    Nominations for branch officers and committee members are now open. All nominations must be received by the deadline of 4th June at Midday. Ballots will then be sent out to all members for any contested positions in mid June. At the AGM we will announce the results of any contested nominations and a full list of officers and committee members for the next academic year. These officers and committee members will take up their new roles on 1st August.

    If you are interested in any of these roles, but would like to discuss them first, please do get in touch. We encourage any member that wishes to get more involved to do so.

    The nomination process this year will be via email. If you wish to be nominated, please send an email to ucu@lboro.ac.uk with the subject “AGM Nomination”. In the email, please state your name, membership number and the role(s) you wish to be nominated for. Please cc this email to the people who have agreed to propose and second your nomination. Your proposer and seconder will then need to forward that email along with their name, membership number and confirmation they are proposing or seconding your nomination to ucu@lboro.ac.uk. All 3 emails will need to be received by ucu@lboro.ac.uk by the 4th June midday deadline.

    Nominations are requested for: Chair, Vice Chair, Branch Secretary, Membership Secretary, Treasurer, Personal Casework Co-ordinator, Anti-Casualisation Officer, Equality Officer and Health, Safety & Environmental Officer.

    In addition to the above core positions, and if we have interest from members in filling these roles, we can also elect: Union Learning Rep (ULR), Recruitment Officer, Green Rep and Pension Rep. For more information on any of these roles please look at this section of the UCU website.

    There are also 11 positions on the branch committee for members who don’t wish to be an officer. Please indicate “Ordinary Member” on the nomination email if nominating for these non-officer roles. These positions are great for people new to being active in a Trade Union and who want to be more involved but may not yet have the confidence or experience to take on an officer role. These are also a great way for our departmental reps to be more involved in the wider branch should they wish to join the committee without taking on an officer role.

    Please remember you can be nominated for more than one officer role and/or to be an ordinary member of the committee. If positions are contested, they will be elected in the order listed (above) in this email. Where a member is unsuccessful for one position, they would then be eligible for their next nomination. Members can only be elected to one role. If successful they withdraw their nomination(s) for the other position(s).

    We also welcome self-nominations (no proposers/seconders required) for additional Equality Rep roles which will support the Equality Officer and each look after an area of Equality work i.e. BAME or LGBTQ for examples. These are not committee positions but if you are interested in one of these roles and being on the committee you could also be nominated to one of the 11 “Ordinary Committee Member” roles.

    As always, if there are any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us via ucu@lboro.ac.uk

  • Open Meeting with Jeevun Sandher, MP for Loughborough

    When: May 9th, 1-2pm.
    Where: U005 (Brockington Extension) & Online via MS Teams.

    Loughborough UCU will be hosting an open meeting with the MP for Loughborough, Shepshed, and the Villages, Dr. Jeevun Sandher, on May 9th from 1-2pm in U005 (Brockington Extension).

    The event will focus on “The Future of Higher Education Policy in the UK”. Dr. Sandher will speak for a few minutes on the topic, before we then open up the discussion to questions from the audience.

    Prior to his election to Parliament last year, Dr. Sandher previously worked as an economist researching inequality and poverty at King’s College London, and he has also served as a UCU trade union rep.

    As this is an open meeting, please do forward this invitation along to any colleagues you think may be interested in attending.

    Note that while online attendance will be possible, we would encourage in-person attendance where possible – and there should also be time to ask questions to Dr. Sandher informally before and after the event.   

    Please click here to download an appointment for your calendar or, if joining online, use this link to join the meeting via Teams: Join online

  • Spread the resistance to the job losses in Higher Education

    The Grassroots Counter-Playbook: How to Fight the Employers’ Offensive

    Thursday 20th March at 12:30pm on Zoom.

    With 1000 jobs losses a month and unprecedented crisis in higher education in the UK, a growing number of branches are resisting.

    Newcastle, Brunel and Dundee Universities are taking industrial action. Other branches such as Durham, Sheffield, Cardiff have balloted for industrial action.

    The employers have a playbook to push through the cuts, we need a counter-playbook.

    Come to the meeting to hear how you can support branches taking industrial action and the lessons of moving into action.

    They cannot win on their own, we need to get the crisis of our universities onto the government’s agenda.

    Link to join the Zoom meeting: https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/j/81485600063

    Meeting ID: 814 8560 0063
    Passcode: 322405

    Please also sign the open letter, here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTY20tsLYA7JVe6X354VD_e8oS4FGHmm6DEyBBPYj8i6aOO7S5_vyzqpxle8nWYaShxT0NMQ3yU5vfw/pub

  • At What Cost? The Impact of the Voluntary Exit and Hours Reduction Scheme

    Across the University, there has been a substantial uptake of the Voluntary Exit and Hours Reduction offerings as part of the wider Cost Reduction Scheme. The University has now ‘saved’ in the region of £4m by encouraging people to leave or to reduce their contracts. Following the success of this scheme, Loughborough UCU are concerned about the impact on those left behind. 

    We are hosting an open meeting on Friday, February 28 from 2:00 PM to 2:50 PM on Teams to discuss the impact on workload for remaining Loughborough staff and doctoral researchers. All Loughborough staff and DRs are invited, whether you are a UCU member or not. 

    Are you an academic whose teaching has increased? Are you a DR who has taken on more research or marking without additional compensation? Is your Professional Services team now trying to cover the same amount of work with fewer staff? We want to hear from you!

    Come and share your thoughts and experiences, hear from other people about what is happening in their areas, and discuss how people are managing increases in workload across the University. Please feel free to invite others in your area to attend as we are keen to include as wide a view as possible.

    You can download an invite for your calendar here, or use this link to join the meeting.