Check Your Holiday Pay! (You could be owed money)
Oxford UCU members are encouraged to check whether any overtime or additional hours they have worked have been properly taken into account when their holiday pay is calculated. The rules differ depending on your contract and working pattern: *12.07% is the statutory minimum, corresponding to the 5.6 weeks minimum annual leave requirement. It is worth…
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Draft calling notice for committee nominations for 2026-2027
Nominations are invited for Oxford UCU Committee and associated posts given below, to take office on 1st September 2026 and serve until 31st August 2027. The new Committee will be announced at the Branch AGM taking place at 1 pm on Tuesday 23rd June 2026. We will be holding an informal information session where members…
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Response to University Ethical Investment Representations Review
Following a delay of several months, the University has published the summary of its Ethical Investment Representations Review into its investment policies relating to arms manufacture. Five recommendations were made in the report of the Ethical Investment Representations Review Subcommittee, which were, in turn, evaluated by the Investment Committee before being put to Council.
Both…
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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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