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- Southampton UCU General Meeting – 19th October 2023
- Correspondence with University regarding MAB-related Grievances
- Please be very careful if you use MyEngagement
- Southampton UCU Emergency General Meeting – 19th September 2023
- Data Breaches, Fraud, and USS
- Southampton UCU 2023 AGM – Motions
- USS data breach
- Modernising the Governance Consultative Ballot
- Report from today’s General Meeting
- UCU Rising – Why are we in dispute and why you should vote yes in the reballot – members’ testimonies
- Modernising the Governance – Ballot information for UCU members
- Southampton UCU Branch Statement to Students about Strike Action
- Exams marks release dates – continued concern from UCU members
- A SUCU member in IT explains to non-academics why strike has become the last resort
- UCU HE dispute: UCU Rising – USS communication to Vice-Chancellor
- University fails to move on exams release dates
- Reasons to vote YES in the HE ballots – USS
- Reasons to Vote YES and YES from a local member
- Why academic related professional staff should vote YES in the HE ballots
- Reasons to vote YES in the HE ballots – Gender Pay Gap
- University management’s response to the USS consultation
- USS – SUCU clarifies VC’s claim relating to UCU’s alternative proposals
- USS – UCU’s alternative proposal and UoS response
- Further communications with management about in-person exams…….continued
- Further communications with senior management about in-person examinations
- Reasons to vote YES in the USS ballot
- UCU concerns about returning to campus – email to senior management
- UCU communication with VC and VP Operations re students’ travel plans over the winter break
- SUCU workload survey – summary of results
- Higher Education ballots – Four Fights – say no to spiralling workloads!
- Higher Education ballots – Four Fights – staff deserve a pay RISE not another pay CUT
- Higher Education ballots – Four fights – Experiences of a casualised teacher
- Higher Education ballots – Four fights – why you should vote YES!
- UCU motion on returning to face to face teaching – a response from UEB
- Southampton UCU – motion on returning to campus and our comms with UEB
- Feedback from Special Higher Education Sector Conference (SHESC) on 9th September
- A bonus for some…… further response from University management
- A bonus for some ….. further update
- A bonus ….. for some – update
- A bonus……for some
- UCU Congress 2021 – Motion Results
- Future Ways of Working – UCU concerns
- Cuts to Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Funding – response from senior management
- USS – UCU concerns regarding member survey
- UCU concerns on contributor content on University’s Strategy Consultation padlet
- The Story of Resurrecting Thoughts from Beneath the Glass Ceiling – Mahesan Niranjan
- Comms with senior management about returning to campus on 12 April
- General Meeting Motion – Support for Funded Extensions for PGRs
- UCU Interim Congress – Feedback
- Victimisation of trade union representatives – motion passed at EGM 26 February 2021
- UCU’s concerns about equality during the current (3rd) lockdown – response from management
- UCU concerns about long-term planning for teaching – correspondence with senior management
- UCU equality concerns during the 3rd lockdown – correspondence with management
- Correspondence with senior management regarding return of students in 2021
- Results of Southampton UCU survey of PGR and Hourly Paid staff
- Correspondence with management regarding in-person teaching, and return home of students
- Report from the Higher Education Special Sector Conference (30/09/20)
- UCU concerns regarding blended teaching and Tier 1 status – correspondence with senior management
- UCU, UNITE and Unison survey – how safe do you feel on campus?
- Correspondence with senior management following the EJJNC
- COVID-19: Health and Safety Correspondence with University Management following EJJNC (29/9/20)
- Position statement: COVID-19 Safe return to Campus
- EGM motion – Return to campus and in-person teaching plans
- COVID-19: Health and Safety correspondence with University management
- SUCU Requests for information: Active Campus and University Finances
- Motions passed at Extraordinary General Meeting 22nd July 2020
- Correspondence with University management re postponement of sabbatical leave and promotions 2020-21
- UCU support for #BlackLivesMatter
- COVID-19 Communications with the University
- Motions passed at General Meeting 10 March 2020
- OPEN LETTER TO MUSIC STUDENTS ON UCU INDUSTRIAL ACTION – Southampton, 19 February 2020
- UCU trustee, national officer and NEC elections – ballot now open
- UCU meets V-C to discuss current strikes
- Strike Deductions
- Southampton UCU EGM – 2 December
- UCU Strike Action – A letter to students from a member of staff
- UCU Southampton strike action – branch guidance
- The case for climate action
- Counting the cost of casualisation
- Climate strike rally – thanks for supporting our event
- #climatestrike 20th September, 1200-1230, Jubilee Plaza
- 20th September – support the climate strike
- Climate Strike – 20 September 2019
- UCU letter to employers’ assertions about the USS dispute
- Support the climate strikes
- USS update
- Southampton UCU BBQ
- It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day…
- Taking the PIP? Some concerns about appraisal, line management and performance improvement plans
- Wellfest and a wish list
- The Dinosaur is extinct, but Solidarity is forever.
- General Secretary elections #1 – we put member’s questions to Matt Waddup
- Mental health – top tips from Ruby Wax, but can we also fix the structures?
- General Secretary ballot – Don’t moan ‘bout the leader if you don’t bother to vote
- New VC. New Direction?
- Half time report – how are the senior managers doing with their response to the staff survey?
- Strike ready. An update on USS, and a warning.
- Branch action plan update
- Appraisal guidance – a welcome pause
- No place for racism at our University
- International women’s day: when do women start working for free?
- International Women’s Day 2019 – our embarrassing gender pay gap
- Another one bites the dust (but the top team is still the problem)
- Visa concerns, and pushing back against the hostile environment
- It doesn’t mean we aren’t angry.
- Senate and the Staff survey – update
- What is wrong with ‘the University’ (senior managers’) reaction to the 2019 staff survey
- Staff survey confirms substantial collapse in confidence in senior leadership of the University
- NEC elections and voting – why bother?
- Health and safety – shared concerns
- Groundhog Day 2019 – Appraisal revisited
- New Year – New Hopes
- Open letter from Southampton UCU Executive Committee to University of Southampton President and Vice-Chancellor regarding the USS Pension Scheme
- University rankings, markets and spin
- The Story of Returning to the Tea Estate
- Gender matters
- My name is bond, university bond…
- Workloads matter
- All we want for Christmas … is better senior management and a new VC
- University Governance – Time to take back control?
- Recruitment week and beyond – upcoming Branch activities from 24 September 2018
- Who pays to work at the University? or ‘A different kind of expenses scandal’
- Vote YES for a fair pay deal
- Something for the holidays – brief update on the USS Pension ‘holiday’
- More on USS pensions (and why the USS consultation is just a paper exercise).
- What do you people do all summer?
- University Governance part #1: the one where UCU met the new Chair of Council
- If you can’t stand the heat?
- Settling in – new branch president but #WeAreStillTheUniversity
- #WeAreTheUniversity, part 3 – The One During Mental Health Awareness Week
- #WeAreTheUniversity 3 – Report from Congress
- Warped appraisal process – what went wrong?
- #WeAreTheUniversity – Part 2, The One With You in It
- #WeAreTheUniversity – Part I
- More on Clarity Travel and AirBnB
- “Don’t let our pensions go extinct” – Or, it’s not over ’til it’s over
- UCU consultation on UUK proposals – information for Southampton UCU members, 5 April 2018
- Our working conditions are your children’s learning conditions
- Vice-Chancellor’s Response to letter of 16 March 2018
- Members’ update – 19 March 2018
- Members’ open letter to the President and Vice-Chancellor, 16 March 2018
- How digital communication transformed activism
- It’s still on, and we’re still out.
- ACAS proposals and members’ briefing
- Interview with a Dinosaur
- Another Monday. Another strike day.
- Letter to the Chair of Council, Dr Gill Rider, and all members of Council
- Please sign our Open Letter to the President and Vice-Chancellor
- Picket and Teach-Outs Schedule, Strike Week 3, 5-8 March!
- Cake and misdirection. The VC’s chat with the students
- Gold for Southampton Strikers
- The Pensions Strike: A Personal View
- Southampton UCU Pickets and Activities Schedule, 22-28 February 2018
- An open message from a member in Medicine: The USS Pension Hypothesis
- All Level 4-6 members: Check your final 2016 moderated Appraisal score!
- UCU Industrial Action: a message to our members and colleagues
- It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it – our problem(s) with senior management at University of Southampton
- Collegiality and Communication
- Hands off our money – fight to defend our pensions
- Why pensions matter (and why you really must vote to save USS)
- Get The Vote Out: Pensions update, and just who/what is Mercer?
- Don’t just be in the Union: Be the Union
- An Open Letter to the Chair of Council, from a concerned member of the community
- Friday update: We can demand better
- Through the looking-glass
- Local UCU Friday update
- Our communication with the Vice-Chancellor regarding Warwick’s response to UUK’s proposals for USS
- A torrid time
- Why I’m a UCU representative – a personal account
- What’s it for?
- The student as consumer II: what happened to academic teams?
- Outcomes of the General Meeting, 24 October 2017
- The times, they are a-changin’
- Your pension in their hands
- “And all for Love, and nothing for Reward”
- The problem with treating students as customers, or how module evaluation questionnaires and our timetabling policy damage the student experience
- “What’s a JNC, then?” What your union has been doing for you this week
- USS pensions update: a conversation and a quote
- A very busy week, and lots of progress to report
- Southampton UCU consultative ballot on new contract of employment
- September update: Pay and priorities
- Mid-August briefing from the Branch President
- International staff survey
- UCU advice and support related to appraisal process
- National Senior Management survey for UK University staff
- Claim Tax Relief on UCU subscriptions
- Southampton UCU General Meeting – 29 March
- Universities are International – Open meeting 1 March
- 1 Day Without Us – 20/2/17
- UCU Elections – PLEASE USE YOUR VOTE
- It couldn’t happen at a university?
- Festive drinks with officers from your local branch – 14 December
- UCU caseworker training
- UCU Anti-casualisation Open meeting – 23 November 2016
- Southampton UCU General meeting – 12pm 9 November
- Fighting racism in Southampton – 1 October 2016
- Open meeting for academic-related, professional staff
- Anti-fascist demo – 11am 2 July
- Successful strike action at Southampton
- Strike Action – 25 and 26 May
- Important local update – Changes to Ordinances and Pay Claim 2016
- Southampton UCU Extraordinary General Meeting 1pm 19 May 65/1175
- Higher education committee (HEC) agrees programme of action
- Higher education (HE) ballot: your pay is shrinking, please vote today
- Local update for members
- On the run
- Today’s general meeting
- TUC heartunions campaign – Big Workplace Meeting
- The Big Workplace Meeting – 12.30pm 9 February
- `Rate for the Job’ – are you paid fairly?
- We need you to help Build the Union at Southampton
- UCU national workload survey
- Academic Related Professional Service staff news
- Southampton UCU General Meeting – 1pm, 3 December
- University Induction
- Day out: Sunday 4th October at Twyford
- Love your library
- Volkswagen: Taking the p***
- Pub: The Butcher’s Hook
- Change
- Being at the table
- Pub: The Guide Dog
- The Higher Education profession
- That Monday feeling
- Summer casework: why we all need to be in UCU
- Carbuncle Cup
- Flexible retirement: get it while you still can
- More on the PwC review
- Update on university action against a union representative
- Workload, “Time Off in Lieu” (TOIL) and Unusual Hours
- PwC Business Model Review
- Pay Claim Consultation
- My response to the USS consultation
- Things an individual can do to maximise their pension
- USS Pension Consultation
- University of Southampton refuses requests for information on V-C pay and perks
- UCU Elections
- Commentary on the USS ballot
- The USS pensions dispute
- EGM – Wednesday 21 January
- The Universities UK pension landscape
- Today’s informal Pensions meeting
- Progress with the USS Dispute
- How to value a pension fund for an ongoing pre-92 higher education sector that is not about to become insolvent
- USS – Vice-Chancellor accepts UCU petition
- LSE Pensions Advisory Group respond to USS valuation
- Imperial College London challenges the USS methodology
- Press coverage of USS dispute in/ around Southampton
- Southampton Academics Put Pressure on the VC over USS
- False assumptions of the USS
- Pensions: are the proposed changes legal?
- USS Pensions and VC’s Letter
- Recording of USS presentation by Malcolm Ace
- Special General Meeting – USS proposed changes
- Employers’ Proposed USS Pension Changes
- Tolpuddle Festival
- Southampton UCU Annual General Meeting – 1.00pm, 19 June 2014
- Losing our Ace
- Southampton UCU General meeting – 1pm Weds 26 March, room 27/2003
- Living Wage – the University’s recent statement on SUSSED
- Day of Action – 6 February 2014
- IMPORTANT: Information on strike action Thursday 6 Feb and feedback from 28 Jan
- Two-hour strike on 23 January
- Information for Thursday’s action
- The Vice-Chancellor’s Pay Rise
- MEETING WITH UCU’S NATIONAL PENSIONS OFFICIAL – 21 JANUARY, 2014
- Strike action feedback
- A little something to boost your Christmas spirit
- Strike action is on at the University of Southampton
- PRESS RELEASE – 3 December set for second strike day at University of Southampton
- Southampton UCU General meeting – 1pm Wedneday 27 November
- 31 October 2013 Industrial Action
- UPDATE: Statement on contracts forthcoming
- On the health of our USS pensions
- The 2014 pay ballot – why you should vote YES YES
- Special General meeting – 13:00 – 14:30 Wednesday 18 September room 58/1007
- Happy 65th Birthday NHS!
- UCU letter to VC – Improving Staff Community
- Draft Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 27 June 2013, Room 58/1009
- Southampton UCU AGM – 27 June 2013
- UCU member survey
- General Meeting – 24 April 2013
- Dr Jenny Rohn and the Science Is Vital Campaign
- 6 March – Anti-Casualisation Day of Action
- Article about casualisation in academia from The Guardian
- Anti-Austerity Demonstration in Southampton, 12PM on 26 January
- University 2011/12 Finance Report
- Public meeting on student fees
- Public Meeting on the Climate Emergency
- Researchers, Fixed-Term Contracts, and Universities
- New issue of our newsletter — Collegiality
- Happy Birthday, Fixed Term Regulations 2002!
- Result of Higher Education Sector Conference, 13 September 2012
- UCU Career Development Seminar and Strategy Day – 1 August
- Information for managers of fixed-term contract researchers
- Southampton UCU AGM – 1pm Thursday 28 June
- UCU Congress Report From Your Delegates
- Why Women Don’t Want to Work Here
- USS – changes in pension tax. Are you affected?
- What’s Wrong With DAP?
- The Top-50: Is This A Place Southampton Wants To Be?
- UCU Goes Green
- Rethinking performance and reward at the University of Southampton
- Southampton UCU join SUSU at anti fees demo
- ‘Come Clean’ NUS day of action on March 14th.
- UCU launches ‘Union Cities’ question time video
- Southampton UCU Spring Seminar Series
- Tying pay to performance does not work!
- What Are You Worth? The University’s Proposed Pay and Reward Plans
- Save our NHS!
- Invitation to Southampton and Eastleigh Question Time Event
- Southampton and Eastleigh Question Time – 6:00pm 20 January 2012
- Attention early-career academics: UCU training courses are being offered in Spring 2012!
- University of Southampton Reward Strategy
- UCU Union Cities Christmas Party – 14 December
- Researcher’s Workshop: Great attendance and great feedback!
- 30 November – A fantastic day of solidarity in Southampton
- 30 November – A statement from the branch President
- 30 November – Professor Catherine Pope’s speech
- Don’t turn back time: women and the cuts – 19 November 2011
- 30 November – Picket lines
- Day of Action — 30 November
- Workshop for Researchers — 7 December 2011
- University of Southampton and Southampton UCU team up for ‘Bully or bullied?’ workshop
- UCU Anti-Stress and Bullying week 7 – 13 November 2011
- Daily Echo covers Southampton UCU march
- Southampton UCU Marches to Defend Pensions
- 31 October – March to Defend USS
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- Southampton UCU Newsletter — Collegiality Issue 1
- Let’s Meet For Lunch Campaign flyer
- Southampton UCU featured on Winchester News Online
- “Let’s Meet For Lunch” Campaign
- Fighting for public services: TUC Open Meeting 31 October
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