The MIE Anti-Racist Education Network invites you to a seminar with Professor Vini Lander on Wednesday, 13 November, from 1:30 to 3:00 pm. This will be our first seminar of the academic year, with additional seminars and workshops planned in the coming months.
Please see the attached leaflet for information on future events and register here for the first seminar.
Date: Wednesday 13 November
Time: 1.30pm – 3pm
Venue: Ellen Wilkinson, A3.7
We look forward to seeing you there.
There is a joint academic workload task-and-finish group that is jointly chaired by Allan Pacey (Acting Dean FBMH) and Simeon Gill (UMUCU). It has met seven times since the end of November 2023, charged to investigate the challenges of workload for academics.
The group wishes to use six focus groups to help refine ideas and identify priority areas for change. We would like your help to collect nominations for members to contribute. There will be 12 participants in each to balance input from three faculties, comprising 6 people nominated by UCU and 6 people nominated by the faculty. The make-up of each group of six should ideally be as diverse as possible, including members on fixed term contracts, lecturers, senior lecturers, readers and professors, on T&S, T&R and R contract types. See here for more detail.
Please could you register your desire to attend by filling in this form or by emailing ucu@manchester.ac.uk with the subject Workload Focus Groups, before Dec 2024.
Additionally, Employee Relations are happy to receive comments to employeerelations@manchester.ac.uk clearly marked AW Focus Group Comments in the subject field.
To celebrate new hybrid equipment for our offices at Crawford House, we will be using the big screen to host UMUCU’s first ever film night on Thu 7 November from 4pm (film starts 4.30pm), followed by drinks in SandBar from 5.30pm.
The film is a 45m documentary about one of the high points of trade union history, the rank and file organised ‘Teamster Rebellion’ in Minneapolis in 1934. This was a mass strike which won big on pay and union recognition, unionised the town, and ultimately led to winning the legal right to collective bargaining across the U.S. This fascinating and inspiring documentary was made back in 1980 and features interviews with people who actually participated in the strikes.
Directions: Crawford House, Booth Street East, under the tunnel opposite the Aquatics Centre, door on right, then first door on left when inside.
If you can’t make it on the 7th but are interested in watching the film you can find it here
It is World Toilet Day on 19th November and TUC are running a quick survey on toilet access for workers. Please could you complete this short survey about your workplace toilets.
A speaking tour, organised by BRICUP & University & College Workers for
Palestine, to address scholasticide and its to impact on students and educators in
Palestine, how Palestinian institutions are resisting erasure through efforts to
resume education on the land, and the role of transnational solidarity in
promoting the rehabilitation of Gaza’s education sector and boycott, divestment
& sanction campaigns.
*This event is exclusively for UoM & MMU staff & students.
https://manchester.web.ucu.org.uk/files/2024/10/Solidarity-Against-Scholasticide.pdf
Date: Monday 4th November 2024
Time: 4 – 6pm
Location: room C5.1, Ellen Wilkinson, University of Manchester M15 6JA
Sundus Hammad (Right to Education, Birzeit University)
Ahmed Abu Shaban (Al Azhar University, Gaza online)
Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Scholars for Palestine (online)
Please register using the link or QR-code below:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/umucu/t-avgvgee
We’ll be holding an online joint campus trade union meeting to raise awareness about the support and help that’s available on Monday 25th November at 12-1pm. Here are the joining details:
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 951 6912 4410
Passcode: 352412
For more information please see: Menopause | University of Manchester UCU branch
We want to draw your attention to a University survey that is now live. It will inform a Menstrual Health Toolkit which aims to provide colleagues and managers with key information about menstrual health and peri/menopause support. The StaffNet article and survey can be found here:
Complete our Menstrual Health Survey | StaffNet | The University of Manchester
The survey runs until Oct 30th 2024
There is a members’ meeting Wed 9 Oct, 12:30pm on Zoom.
Agenda:
The UCU Exec will be piloting a members drop in to our Crawford house offices to ask questions and feed into our strategy or ask any questions. We have set two dates and hope that members will come to meet members of the Exec!
Session 1 – 12:30 -2pm Thu 3rd Oct, UCU Offices Crawford House, Booth Street East
Session 2 – 12:30-13:30 Wed 30th Oct, UCU Offices Crawford House, Booth Street East
