The University and College Union at Durham University
Durham University is not being fully transparent about its financial situation. Durham UCU calls on the University Executive Committee (UEC) to provide detailed financial data for an external expert to review. On 7 February, we requested financial data related to, … Continued
The below leaflet has been developed by members, focusing on management agency in staff costs and encouraging colleagues to join a union and participate in action for a fighting chance to save jobs and protect workloads. Any Durham University staff … Continued
Durham UCU are appalled by the proposals of the Durham University management to cut staff costs by £10 million in the current academic year (2024–25), with a further £10 million in the following academic year (2025–26). These cuts are targeting … Continued
Letter from DUCU negotiators to members, 28 January 2025 Dear colleagues The employer served us with a Section 188 notification of proposed redundancies at Durham University on Tuesday 21 January at 16.31. The employer prevented us from disclosing this information … Continued
We write in dismay over the resignation of our Durham University colleague and UCU member who is resigning from the university over issues of equality and diversity – more specifically, over university management’s inadequate response to the South College incident … Continued
Durham UCU members, in a General Meeting following a consultative ballot, have voted to end industrial action under the current mandate, in recognition of an agreement made with the employer. The agreement covers: a joint statement on USS pensions a … Continued
What is the dispute about? There are two ongoing disputes – on the cuts to pensions, and on the general degradation of pay and conditions in universities (the “Four Fights” of pay, inequality, casualisation and workload). We are asking the … Continued
UCU branches at 149 universities, including Durham, will be involved in fresh ballots over the USS and pay and conditions disputes (Four Fights). The ballots opened on Wednesday 16 March and will close at 5pm on Friday 8 April. Please … Continued
Following senior management’s refusal to publish the recommendations from Professor MacNaughton’s report into the events at South College, we have agreed a joint statement with the Durham BAME network, Durham Intersectional Feminist Society and Durham University Labour Club, which has … Continued
While UCEA, representing Higher Education employers generally, refuses to negotiate nationally on the pay, inequality, casualisation or workload aspects of the Four Fights, many of these are also matters which can be negotiated locally. Following contributions to drafting by many … Continued