Category: Advice
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Explainer: Redundancy meetings
As people are called to meetings about possible redundancies, we feel it is important not to attend alone. Everyone has the right to ask someone to accompany them to meetings. UCU branch committee members will do our best to attend as many meetings as we can (where members request this support). But, given the current…
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Dealing with academic workload planning
Many UCU Derby members will be involved in the Academic Workload Planning (AWP) system. In principle, the idea of having a workload planning system that can ensure some equity and prevent people from taking on too much is a good idea. But in practice AWP often ends up a way of overloading people. We would…
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Pension – Why it is important you stay in your scheme
On-line talk – 12th June 2024 – 6-7pm For FE and Post-92 institutions most members are in TPS if they teach and LGPS if they don’t. For Pre-92 institutions most members are in USS. A number of institutions are either now offering, or considering offering, alternative schemes. These schemes are often inferior but can have…
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Free online wills for UCU members
Being a member of the UCU offers you a wide range of benefits in addition to the collective negotiation around wages and conditions and representation in the workplace. Slater and Gordon offer UCU members a web-based facility to make their Will online through a legal document production website; please note that online registration is required.…
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Get tax relief for your union membership fees
Did you know that you might be entitled to some tax back for the fees that you have been paying to the UCU? UCU members can claim up to 67% tax relief on the annual subscription paid to UCU. Members have 4 years to claim tax relief for professional fees and subscriptions. Members need to…
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