Research staff are not self-employed sole traders
For National Postdoc Appreciation Week (16-20 September), many staff received an email from the Careers Service including a message about “The search for professional security as a researcher”. This message correctly identifies the precarity of short, fixed-term contracts as a major concern among researchers. However, it then goes on to suggest that research staff should…
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Joint UCU branch statement on the Oxford and Cambridge Palestine solidarity encampments
On Monday 6 May 2024, students from both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge set up encampments in protest at their institutions’ complicity in the Israeli assault on Gaza and Israel’s longstanding violations of international law through the crimes of occupation and apartheid. Since October 2023, Israel’s bombing of Gaza has resulted in a reported…
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Introduction to Oxford UCU
Why you might want to join UCU and how to get involved in your local Oxford branch.
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UCU Rising Strike Action : University Response
I read with dismay, the University’s seemingly harsh reaction to the University and College Union’s (UCU) planned strike action in the next few days. The Gazette, published last week, led with the Notice that any employees participating will have their pay docked for each day they participate. Whilst some people may sympathise with the UCU…
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UCU Rising Campaign – Ballot Closes October 21st
3 weeks ago my #UCURising campaign poster was removed from our staff noticeboard. It must have taken some effort as it was firmly affixed with sticky tape. I’m curious as to why someone would deliberately remove it and leave all the old and mainly out of date notices about yoga classes, meal deals etc….. My…
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Response to the Vice-Chancellor’s Announcement of a One-off Payment
Given the scale of the cost of living crisis, we welcome the announcement on 7 June of a one-off payment that many – but not all – of our colleagues at Oxford will receive. The payment is an implicit admission that many of you employed at a world-leading university are facing financial difficulties. This is…
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Fair Pay for College Teaching
The Oxford UCU Anti-Casualisation Network is today launching a petition calling for improved pay and conditions for hourly-paid and stipendiary College teaching staff. The petition is addressed to the current chair and co-chair of Conference of Colleges (the Oxford Colleges’ “forum”) and the 39 college senior tutors. It outlines three demands: A pay rise Clear…
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Tutor Pay and Contracts at the Department for Continuing Education
Notes from an open meeting for tutors held on Monday 14 February 2022 Oxford UCU has organised a second open meeting at 1pm on Monday 14 March to report on outcomes from the meeting with ContEd management and to consider next steps. All ContEd tutors are encouraged to register and join the discussion. Mikal Mast,…
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