UCU has joined with partners to form Knowledge Economy, making an economic case for investment in education.
Arts Emergency Service is an organisation that promotes access to arts education beyond those who can pay for it.
Let us know if there are other campaigns that would be of interest to UCU@UEA members!
Saturday 9th March – Rally at North Walsham 12.00 (within Norman Lamb’s constituency) to call for the NHS to remain public http://norfolkcoalitionagainstcuts.org/
Monday 11th March 7pm in Lecture Theatre 2, University of East Anglia – Coalition of Resistance UEA have organised a public rally in order to raise awareness of the damage that austerity is doing to society and to build for the People’s Assembly that is due to take place in June.
Talks from:
– Owen Jones (author and journalist)
– Natalie Bennett (leader of the Green Party)
– Vicki Baars (NUS Vice-President)
– Chris Nineham (CoR National Officer)
– Elliot Folan (CoR UEA activist)
UCU@UEA was pleased to welcome union general secretary Sally Hunt to UEA on 31st January.
Sally spoke to our General Meeting about some of the priorities for the union at the moment:
Questions from members pulled out the workload issue some more, and discussion of the Research/Teaching academic career pathways.
Sally’s message at the end was that despite the challenges facing us she feels positive! And she encouraged members to recruit colleagues because trade unions are more relevant than ever.