Author: QMUCU

The failure of senior management to include QMUCU with respect to key decision-making, and their failure use the HR-JCF mailing list for updates and consultation (in part required by law), leaves QMUCU no choice but to call for an emergency Joint Consultation Forum (JCF). Not to do so would be a failure of our duties … Continue reading Covid-19: Emergency Joint Consultation Forum (JCF) called

The campus unions – Unite, Unison, and UCU – are disappointed with the response of QM senior management to the Covid-19 pandemic. The unions, elected representatives of all QM Staff, have been excluded from decision-making. It was only after pressure that we were invited to (informal) discussion of the handling of the pandemic, and promised … Continue reading Covid-19: Letter to Management re: Health & Safety Reps and Key Documents

Moving to alternative teaching and assessment is tricky. Here are some of the challenges and our pledge to students.

This is a longer update from Friday's branch meeting.

QMUCU demands an immediate halt to face-to-face teaching, one week suspension of classes for preparation, union inclusion in response groups.

Many of you will have already heard that, at yesterday’s well-attended EGM, QMUCU decided that - due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic - we would cancel physical picketing and associated activities (e.g. teach-outs) on the final four days of the current strike action. It is imperative to note that this does not change the fact … Continue reading Important Strike Update: QMUCU Moves to e-Pickets Due to Covid-19 – New Demands to Management

Strike action at QM continued today with plenty of early morning picketers! Today's pickets were largely themed around a national UCU-affiliated Preventing Prevent campaign.  As well as showing support for the campaign on the pickets, QMUCU members attended a teach-out on the subject led by Nivi Manchanda from the School of Politics & International Relations.  … Continue reading QMUCU Strike Gathering Steam – Preventing Prevent on the QM Pickets

Our recent flyer highlighted that QMUL generates plenty of money and management could use it to improve both staff working and student learning conditions. Read the details behind the headline figures.