Today was our second day of the UCU Coventry strike against the #RottentotheCORE performance management system at Coventry University. We were out on the picket lines from 7.45 this morning which gave us a lot of time to have meaningful conversations with concerned and supportive students! Thanks to all the students who stopped by to have a chat, picked up leaflets to hand out, asked … Continue reading UCU Coventry Strike Day 2 – A big thank you to our students!

Thank you!! to all who attended the strike yesterday and to all the staff and students who stopped by to chat, who helped us hand out leaflets, who asked questions, and who asked us how they can support us! You and your support are greatly appreciated! We were honoured to have our UCU General Secretary Jo Grady speak as well messages of support and solidarity … Continue reading Coventry UCU Strike – Day 1 #RottentotheCORE

The first of a series of five one-day walkouts commence on Thursday 21st November. Subsequent one-day walkouts are on Tuesday 26th November, Friday 29th November, Tuesday 3rd December and Wednesday 4th December. This will be followed up by action short of strike commencing on 5thDecember. Strike day briefings will take place at 7:45am on the morning of each one-day walkout. Rallies will also take place from 10am to 12noon. Meet … Continue reading Strike Action to Begin 21st November – UCU GS Jo Grady Joining the Picket!

Coventry University UCU Annual General Meeting Please come along to our AGM which has been scheduled as follows: Date: Wednesday 12th June 2019 Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Room: GEG32 (George Eliot Building) Come and vote in a committee which will represent and fight for you in the coming year. If you would like to become a member of the committee or a rep, please e-mail ucu@coventry.ac.uk or just come along on the day and … Continue reading AGM – Wednesday 12th June 2019

Please come along to the Coventry University UCU Annual General Meeting which has been scheduled as follows: Date: Tuesday 27th November 2018 Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Room: JA153 Come and vote in a committee which will represent and fight for you in the coming year. If you would like to become a member of the committee or a rep, please e-mail ucu@coventry.ac.uk or just come along on the … Continue reading AGM – 27th November 2018

Remember when Coventry University were in the papers for sacking a group of English pre-sessional teachers – employed by a ‘wholly-owned subsidiary’ of the University CU Services – for exercising their legal right to collective representation by UCU? Well, they are at it again – union busting that is – this time at CU Coventry. Sham union On 8 March, UCU officials met with the … Continue reading #CovUniShame (again)

Last week The Guardian newspaper published a letter from UCU general secretary Sally Hunt – scroll down to the bottom if you haven’t yet read this. This letter made the point that public outrage about University leaders paying themselves outrageously high salaries is not the full story of what is happening in universities today. It also concerned the new terms and conditions staff working in these institutions are … Continue reading Coventry University blasted in The Guardian

In May this year, Coventry University UCU published a pamphlet entitled, ‘Growth is ok…but what about quality?’ You can download the pamphlet here: UCU Pamphlet April 2017 w Equality Charter This pamphlet criticised Coventry University’s Corporate Strategy 2021, which we see as unsustainable for a number of reasons articulated in the pamphlet Financial risk – the corporate plan aims to invest ‘at least £350m, with a surplus … Continue reading Growth is ok … but what about quality? (May 2017 edition)

Coventry University UCU expresses its solidarity with our colleagues in Warwick UCU in its ‘Save Our Statue’ Campaign.  This campaign concerns the way the University Management at Warwick are currently seeking to remove Warwick University’s ‘statute reforms’; which involves the repealing of current provisions for redundancy, discipline and dismissal.  These changes makes it quicker and easier to sack and discipline members of staff at the … Continue reading SOLIDARITY WITH COLLEAGUES AT WARWICK UNIVERSITY

On the 22nd February 2017, Coventry UCU were honored to have co-organised a screening of I Daniel Blake with Unite Community (Coventry and Warwickshire Branch) along with supporting organisations Peoples Assembly and Coventry Recovery Centre. Our aim was to raise awareness of the sanctions regime in the benefits system and to highlight the desperation and indignity that this imposes on thousands of people in Britain … Continue reading Ken Loach at Coventry University