News

We won a better deal for members who were affected by the locations closures, including a rational London weighting, better support for home-working, agreement to maintain some level of regional infrastructure, and a co-operative approach to the move to shift-work.

We conducted a survey into the Group Tuition Policy and one of our Vice Presidents, Caitlin Adams, has written a report on the survey results. Thank you to everyone who responded to our survey.

The OU branch of UCU sent a letter to the Chair of the OU Council, Richard Gillingwater in November 2016 over the problems with the Group Tuition Policy - view letter.

Sally Hunt was the speaker at an OU branch of UCU Open meeting on 15th March 2017 in the OU Library.  She was recently re-elected as the General Secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), view press release.

You can view a recording of the meeting on the OU Stadium website.

We have created a blog website to be used in conjunction with our branch newsletter, the Spark - from time to time we add helpful and useful documents to the blog website.

The most recent items on the blog are comments from our Associate Lecturer (AL) members on what it's like to be an Open University AL.

The photo wall that we used during our regional campaign is to be resurrected for use with members comments on anti-casualisation.  

16 November 2016 - The results of the Executive Committee election were announced at the AGM, please view this page to see the new Executive Commitee from 16 November 2016.

June 2017 - We have launched a new branch website, with thanks to Caroline in the OU Communications unit. Our Branch Administrator has been using a Lotus Notes content management system since 2009, however the branch felt that it was time to get the branch website updated so we are now using an Open University Drupal template website. We really like it and hope you to too, please send your comments to ucu@open.ac.uk.