Welcome to UCL UCU
UCU is the trade union and professional association representing
university staff across the sector, formed in June 2006 by the amalgamation
of AUT and Natfhe.
UCU is UCL’s recognised trade union for lecturing staff,
research staff, administrators, computer staff, librarians, and
related staff grades. PhD students who carry out teaching duties
can join on a special rate.
UCL UCU is a large trade union branch with over 1,500 members.
Some of our members have permanent ‘core funded’ positions,
while others - mainly research staff - are on what UCL
refers to as “open-ended contracts on fixed funding”.
In short, if you are employed at UCL, teach, research or support,
but are not currently a member of UCU, we would encourage you to
join.
Staff
on clerical and manual grades should join UNISON,
those on technical and scientific support roles, UNITE.
We support our colleagues in the other UCL trade union branches,
and encourage all college workers to join their appropriate trade
union.
Statute 18 'reform'
UCL management has announced to staff that it wishes to 'reform'
the relevant Statute which lays down procedures for considering
the dismissal of academic staff, whether by redundancy or for any
other reason. They have initiated a consultation web page for staff
comment and have met with representatives of the trade unions, including
UCU.
We believe that the current proposal is not fit for purpose and
would be extraordinarily damaging for the future of UCL. UCL is
a world-class University which has prided itself in providing a
supportive environment for genuinely novel and often difficult research.
This means that staff employed by the university may find themselves
- questionning policy assumptions of governments and their spokespeople
in the media
- exposing poor quality research published by commercial enterprises
- critiquing their own research and those of colleagues
All of these activities are premised on the notion of 'academic
freedom'. If the job of an academic is to question authority, then
they need institutional safeguards from interference by government
and commerce. Likewise, internal academic disputes must not become
the basis for selection for dismissal.
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