Author: QMUCU

This week all of our members received an invitation to fill out the QMUCU Covid-19 Attitudes Survey. Put together by our health and safety representatives, the survey is designed to gather evidence about the issues staff are facing and demonstrate how widely shared these concerns are. It will only take a few minutes to complete, … Continue reading Fill out the QMUCU Covid-19 Attitudes Survey to strengthen our health and safety demands QMUL

At our last branch meeting, on September 16th, the branch approved, with none against, a motion to be submitted to the UCU special Higher Education sector conference (HESC) taking place on September 30th. This motion calls on UCU to include demands that Graduate Teaching Associates’ work occur on contracted basis in our national bargaining, and … Continue reading UCU Special HE sector conference: protecting GTAs work and acknowledging PGRs as members of staff

Many postgraduate students and early career academics experience precarious and insecure conditions in their teaching and research work. QMUCU want to change that. We have tried for many years to make progress on this.  Below are our Proposed Terms of Reference for a Anti-Casualisation Working Group which we propose should form a sub committee of … Continue reading Proposed Terms of Reference for working group on casualisation

Facing pressure to return to campus? Worried about Covid-19 hazards at the workplace? Struggling with unbearable workload and stress? The only way to fight these issues is if we join together. Your union can help. In response to the increasing pressure for QMUL staff to return to campus, QMUCU is organising a health and safety … Continue reading Health and Safety meeting taking place on Wednesday, 23rd September 1 pm on Zoom

Do you want to learn how to organise more effectively against the structural changes happening in our universities? We have a brilliant training opportunity to all our members. You can join the UCU “Organising School” led by Jane McAlevey. Jane is a brilliant activist and writer who has had major success in leading successful union … Continue reading Training opportunity to members: UCU Organising School (register by 14th September)

Please find below the latest QMUCU branch motion, passed at an all members branch meeting on 19 August 2020. The Queen Mary branch of the University and College Union (QMUCU) notes  that: QMUL states ‘that the overarching endeavour of the Queen Mary recruitment policy is to facilitate a transparent, fair and equitable recruitment process for … Continue reading QMUCU branch members support the motion on collective grievance and ending the ‘recruitment freeze’

The murder of George Floyd and the return to popular prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement, alongside the clear impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black, Asian, and People of Colour (BAPoC), has given renewed impetus to an essential discussion over the systemic racism pervading our institutions. We, the newly elected representatives of QMUCU, … Continue reading Joint Statement from QMUCU, QM Unison & QMSU on Systemic Racism on Campus and Beyond

Over the past couple of weeks, QMUL management has started the return to campus. This has been done without proper consultation with the campus unions and without proper plans and provision in place. It is not safe to return to campus. No-one should be on campus except those who are already living there and those … Continue reading QM management has not adequately quaranteed the safety of staff on return to campus