Annual General Meeting Tuesday 8th December 1.15 pm

University of Bath UCU Annual General Meeting takes place next  TUESDAY 8th DECEMBER  1.15 PM  Wessex House Council Chamber.

Agenda

If you wish to nominate yourself or another member (with their agreement) for any position please contact me before Tuesday.

There will be light refreshments from 1 pm, and after we have disposed of the routine business of the meeting we will have a chance to discuss the recent Green Paper on HE, which

  • threatens to put up tuition fees,
  • imposes a Teaching Excellence Framework that will have exactly the opposite effect and
  • creates a cowboys’ charter (‘provider exit’ will be permitted) for HE

We will be joined in that discussion by Jamie Melrose (University of Bristol UCU)

Trade Union Bill threat to unions

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The Trade Union Bill is a threat to all workers.  Next Thursday the three recognised campus unions and the Students Union are co-hosting a meeting to explain this and to discuss how we can oppose it.   Our main speaker is Baroness Jan Royall, former Labour leader in the House of Lords and currently a Pro-Chancellor at the University.   The Bill is currently working its way through the Lords, after receiving support in the House of Commons (see the news item from the South West TUC below for more information about the Bill).

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