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Advice sheet: Claiming the government furlough scheme   The Basics The government has introduced the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Under the scheme, any employee out of work due to the coronavirus will have 80% of their wages paid by the…

One of the main takeaways is that there is no substitute for internal organisers. This is true in all campaigns, but particularly within tight knit communities such as courier workforces. External organisers are treated with suspicion and unless you are a paid organiser you don’t have the time to earn trust.

  It’s not been a full 4 months since the UCU ended its last strike action which pushed employers back to the negotiating table. At the time, strike action was taken by 60 universities across the UK for 8 days…

Teachers at Delfin English School in London will be walking away from their jobs with an enhanced redundancy after a vocal and energetic campaign that spread to cities around the UK. The entire teaching staff at Delfin was made redundant…

Christmas 2019 was cancelled for a dedicated team of teachers at Delfin School.

On the evening of the 23rd of December 2019, prisoner Kevan Thakrar, a member of the IWW’s IWOC (Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee) called to inform IWOC that a known racist attempted to take his life that afternoon. Please call and/or…

On Friday 6 December 2019, IWW members from Reading branch were joined by IWW members from Bristol at a demonstration on the Campus of Reading University.  The demonstration involved other students and members of the UCU and was in support…

Parliamentary democracy has encouraged us to believe that all we need to do to be politically engaged is to vote every few years. But then what? We hope that the people we’ve elected make the decisions we want and we…

University staff represented by the UCU at 60 universities across the UK are on an 8 day strike starting November 25! Why? Universities have failed to uphold promises about pension contributions and pay, equality, casualization, and workload. According to the…