Your local University and College Union (UCU) branch at Queen Mary, University of London
In the past couple of weeks, QMUCU has received concerning information from participants in the QMUL Rent Strike about the high rates of eviction from QMUL residences. Between September 2020 and February … Continue reading QMUCU raises concerns over evictions from student residences during the pandemic
The QMUCU anti-racism working group is inviting you to join our second Anti-Racism Training and Workshop which will take place on 25 March at 1pm. You can register here. This workshop … Continue reading Community Accountability for Racial Justice: Anti-Racism Training and Workshop with Prof. Gargi Bhattacharyya, 25 March
It won’t have escaped your notice that management, at exactly the same time as ignoring your request for a collective Covid Allowance, has launched a bonus scheme supposedly designed “to … Continue reading QMUCU submits a collective application to the bonus scheme
We hope you are well. We’d like to take this opportunity to invite you directly to our next branch meeting on Thursday next week, 18 March, at 1pm. This is a … Continue reading Next Thursday – we meet
Yesterday, at a well attended branch meeting, QMUCU members unanimously passed a trio of motions demanding that university management offer more meaningful support to staff from all sectors of the … Continue reading QMUCU members demand more from management
Since March 2020, we have witnessed and experienced a substantial increase in childcare and other intensive caring duties at home. This has been accompanied by an increase of workload, leading … Continue reading Key findings from QMUL 2020 financial report – fact sheet
The Covid payment petition has now been signed by 568 people. This includes 528 members of staff and further 40 students and members of the wider community. Through our collective … Continue reading The Covid payment petition has been signed by 528 QMUL members of staff
Nearly two years ago Queen Mary comissioned a report into racism and other equalities issues at Queen Mary. Last summer the ‘Inclusion Report’ with appendices containing testimonies from members of … Continue reading How to turn an Inclusion Report into an Exclusion Report
Over the last two weeks you will have received messages from the Principal about the university’s plans for the next academic semester. In those emails it has been claimed that … Continue reading Management ignoring government guidance on return to campus
