AGM 2026 will be held on 16 September at 1pm and followed by the branch meeting. It will be an online meeting and the branch will send a reminder email with the meeting link a week before the AGM.
Knowing your rights at work
The TUC publish a series of guides, and have a website ‘work smart’ which is dedicated to giving information about rights at work. Please see here:
https://www.tuc.org.uk/know-your-rights
UCU also has some ‘know your rights’ information for groups of workers in the union, specifically those on casual contracts, and graduate teaching assistants. Please see here:
https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/2966/Stamp-Out—know-your-rights-card/pdf/know_your_rights_card.pdf
https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/11018/GTAs-know-your-rights/pdf/ucu_gta-rights_jul20.pdf
Useful Equality and Diversity resources:
Equality Challenge Unit: https://www.ecu.ac.uk/
ACAS Advice on Equality at Work: http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1363
Stonewall advice on supporting trans staff in the workplace: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/supporting-trans-staff-workplace
Gender at Work: http://www.genderatwork.org/
UCU report (2016/2017) on the gender pay gap in higher education: https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/8620/The-gender-pay-gap-in-higher-education-201516—full-report-May-17/pdf/ucu_2015-16genderpaygapreort_full_may17.pdf
I would like to update my membership details. Where can I do this?
Membership queries
I’m not a member, but would like to join. Can I do it online?
Yes, you can. You’ll need to have your bank details to hand:
https://join.ucu.org.uk/
Where can I find out about UCU, national or regional goings-on?
Where can I find out about UCU, national or regional goings-on?
You can check the UCU’s News page here
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