International Boycott of London Met Following a strong vote in favour by London Met UCU members, and an evaluation that negotiations to date had failed, UCU’s Higher Education Committee has actioned a full-scale international academic boycott of London Metropolitan University. We recognise this is an extreme step but the behaviour of London Met management has…
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We are the University and College Union at London Metropolitan University
Anti-casualisation week of action at London Met
You can find the PDF version for printing here: flyer-staff-anti-casualisation Here is the PDF version for printing: flyer-students-anti-casualisation
Fighting the commodification and casualisation of Higher Education
This Monday, London Met UCU published the damning conclusions of a workload survey we recently conducted. It’s main findings were the shocking, health damaging, increase in workload – following continuing mass redundancies, now affecting London Met’s permanent substantive staff. Essentially, contractual workload protections have been subverted through the convenient mechanism of line-managers not recognising ANY…
Staff health at risk as London Met management rip up contractual agreements on working practices
Significant numbers of staff at London Metropolitan University are working the kind of hours known to be harmful to health. That was the conclusion of a new report released today by the London Met branch of the University and College Union. Most of the full-time lecturers who were surveyed for the report indicated that they…
London Met UCU Workload Survey 2016
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY For several years, evidence has been mounting of excessive pressures on academic staff at London Met. Stress surveys in 2010 and 2014 found, among other things, that London Met compared unfavourably with other national organisations on the measure of work demands, with bullying also an issue. A UCU survey in October 2013 showed…
London Metropolitan University – Management Spinning Away from Reality
We are living in a period where democracy is being undermined by the widespread use of lies and distortion in public debate. The controversies surrounding the EU referendum in Britain and the presidential election in America are the most obvious cases, though not the only ones. The right to freedom of speech brings with it…
In defense of education: a meeting in Lancaster and a letter in the Times Higher
Yesterday evening Mark Campbell spoke at a great meeting in Lancaster about a defence of education from the cradle to the grave and to help build for the National Demo for Education on Sat Nov 19. As well as Mark Campbell there was a brilliant local headteacher who spoke out in favour of boycotting testing…
Zero tolerance for zero Hours contracts
Londonmet UCU – with Unison and the Students union – anti-casualisation Campaign Zero tolerance for zero Hours contracts Universities employ 48% of teaching staff on insecure temporary contracts. Londonmet has 44-69% of its teaching staff (up to 1030 lecturers) on insecure zero hours contracts, many with no hours of work at all, with many having had no…
UCU Higher Education Committee unanimously agrees to the public ‘censure’ of London Metropolitan University and actions move towards a full international academic boycott
UCU Higher Education Committee unanimously agrees to the public ‘censure’ of London Metropolitan University and actions move towards a full international academic boycott. London Met UCU’s request to initiate ‘greylisting’ of London Metropolitan University was unanimously agreed by UCU’s HEC (Higher Education Committee) meeting on Friday 14 Oct 2016. The HEC agreed to formally ‘censure’…
