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  • AGM Tuesday 7 July at noon – final agenda

    AGM at noon on Tuesday 7 July, online Zoom link has been sent by email. Agenda Apologies, quoracy and minutes of last year’s AGM (attached to email) Reports by President, Treasurer and Membership Secretary Election of officers   UH Branch Committee nominations received for 2026-27 President Dragan Plavsic Co-Vice-President Keith Seed Co-Vice-President Jane Say Secretary/Press…

  • Extraordinary General Meeting, Tues 30 June, noon; AGM postponed to Tues 2 July, noon

    Dear members, Given the VC’s announcement on 23 June, we have taken the decision to postpone the scheduled AGM until the following week, and instead hold an Extraordinary General Meeting on Tuesday 30 June, at noon, to discuss the University’s proposals. UCU and UNISON have been attending SBU staff briefings and are supporting members. We were…

  • VC’s announcement 23 June and staff briefings

    While we are still in the consultation process for redundancies in Creative Arts, Humanities, Education, Health, and our UNISON colleagues deal with redundancies in Estates, we are concerned that staff across the University now face the sudden news that the University seeks to cut up to 200 jobs through voluntary severance to save £20m. Please…

  • VC’s announcement 23 June

    Members, you will have received the VC’s announcement by email. We encourage you to attend this afternoon’s “Town Hall meeting”. Some SBUs are arranging their own meetings. We will add the VC’s announcement as an item to discuss at next week’s AGM, 30 June at noon.

  • Humanities programme closures – support for members

    The branch committee is very concerned about the University Portfolio Review’s announcement that the undergraduate programmes in English Literature and Linguistics, English Language, Philosophy, History and Creative Writing will be closed and taught out. We are supporting our members in the Humanities Department, and have the support and advice of Regional Office. If any members…

  • 500,000 march against the Far Right

    500,000 march TOGETHER against the far right  Dear members Half a million of us were on the streets of London on Saturday in what’s been called the biggest demonstration against the far right in British history. Every major trade union – including UCU – supported the TOGETHER Alliance march which was joined by a feeder march…