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5 November 2008

Striking for trade union rights

UCU members at Nottingham Trent University were on strike on 21 October against the de-recognition of the union by the university management, writes Steve Score.

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29 October 2008

Fighting cuts at Northampton Uni

Professor Dave Hill, University and College union (UCU) member and supporter of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party, reports for The Socialist on the sackings of two history lecturers at the University of Northampton:...

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17 September 2008

fastnews

PCS pay ballot begins: 270,000 PCS members will soon be voting in a ballot for a national civil service-wide one-day strike over pay...

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18 June 2008

Workplace news in brief

PCS member Eddie Fleming's Employment Tribunal is taking place on 25 June, and the union is organising a lobby in his support. Eddie, the chair of the PCS union branch at the Child Support Agency (CSA), was sacked for his union activities on trumped up charges...

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18 June 2008

Victory against bosses at Keele

Staff at Keele University have won a modest victory at a time when working conditions are being attacked right across the higher education sector. It shows that even when management are fighting from a position of strength, they can be forced to retreat...

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14 May 2008

Socialist fighter honoured by lecturers' union

Socialist Party member Andrew Price is retiring from work next February, so he is standing down from his position as the UCU national executive member for Welsh Further Education...

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29 April 2008

A week of strikes shakes government

Editorial: The strike on 24 April by hundreds of thousands of teachers, civil servants and college lecturers shook the government...

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25 April 2008

Reports of the 24 April strikes

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12 March 2008

Wales further education pay dispute: Vote 'yes' in strike ballot

Andrew Price speaking at Socialist Party congress 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Andrew Price speaking at Socialist Party congress 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Welsh members of the University and College Union (UCU) employed in the Further Education (FE) sector, are currently voting in a strike ballot in a pay dispute declared by their union with the Welsh employers' body fforwm, writes Andrew Price, UCU Wales lay negotiator on FE pay.

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26 April 2007

No victimisation - support Deeside college lecturers

TOWARDS THE end of 2006, the University and College Union (UCU) rejected a pay offer from the Welsh employers' organisation Fforwm, declared a dispute and began to ballot for strike action....

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