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One of the largest UCU branches, Oxford UCU is the bargaining representative for academic, academic-related, and research jobs at grade 6 or above.

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  • Know Your Contract Workshop

    Next anti-casualisation workshop taking place from 13.00-14.00 on Friday 22 January. On Friday 4 December, the Oxford UCU Anti-Casualisation Network (@OxfordAntiCas) and Fund the Future Working Group ran a second open meeting of the term, Fighting Casualisation at the University…

  • Fighting Casualisation at the University of Oxford: Identifying the Key Issues

    Next anti-casualisation workshop taking place from 13.00-14.00 on Friday 4 December. On Monday 16 November, the UCU Anti-Casualisation Network and Fund the Future Working Group ran a workshop, Opposing Fixed Term Contracts at the University of Oxford. Speakers from the…

  • Precarity in a Pandemic Age: Opposing Fixed-Term Contracts at the University of Oxford

    UCU workshop taking place from 13.00-14.00 on Monday 16th November One third of academic workers in the UK are employed on Fixed-Term Contracts (FTCs). At the University of Oxford, a self-described ‘world leader’ in so many areas, this figure is…

  • Oxford UCU position on face-to-face teaching

    With over 14,000 staff and over 24,000 students, the University of Oxford is a place of work and study for a quarter of the population of Oxford. Hence, safe on-site working and studying is a public health concern. Substantial teaching…

  • A thread on Oxford University’s position on USS pensions

    Two years ago on this day, after the walkout of congregation and against a backdrop of national #UCUstrikes on USS pensions, the VC of @UniofOxford acknowledged the depth of feeling around pensions and reversed the University’s position on the detrimental…

  • Oxford UCU statement on the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

    We believe that the University’s decision to accept £150 million from Stephen A. Schwarzman, the co-founder and Chairman of Blackstone, contravenes the University’s professed aims regarding (1) equality and diversity and (2) climate change. Stephen A. Schwarzman was an influential…

  • How to to get involved: Save the Language Centre Library!

    The University of Oxford’s commitment to an international outlook and engagement seems to end where it comes to funding the Language Centre. In its £2.237 billion budget (2017-18), the University can’t find money for an urgently needed refurbishment of the…

  • Language Learning at the Marketised University, or: Libraries do not generate income, that’s why they have to go

    The University of Oxford likes to see itself as being world leading and open to the world at the same time: “The University of Oxford is among the world’s most international higher education institutions. Oxford has benefited from its world-class…

  • Some HE pay myths de-bunked

    Myth 1: The UCU demand of a 7.5% pay rise is completely unreasonable Even IF our demand of a 7.5% pay rise was met – the wages in HE would still be lower than other public sector wages Myth 2:…

  • Are you working too much?

    Whilst pay has dropped in real terms by 21% over the past decade, workloads in HE follow a very different trend: More than 8 in 10 UCU members report a rise in their workload over the last two years. Universities…