July 2024 Newsletter
- University changes and lack of consultation
- Health and Safety inspection on work-related stress
- Workload Rep Training available
- Deferral of Launch of Academic Promotions Round for 2024/25
- Subscription rates for 2024-25
March 2024 Newsletter
- Three dystopian futures – The Big Conversation/Y Sgwrs Fawr
- Stealth restructures?
- Update on negotiation on relevant factors –improving contracts for people on precarious contracts
- Info & meeting about grading Info on freedom of speech regarding Palestine
- Anti Racism March Sunday 17th March
- Graduate Tutor/Demonstrator contracts – info and survey
- Resource on bullying and harassment
- Letter on fossil fuels
- UCU worker’s café – AI Discussion
- Open Democracy article on money poured into UK universities
- Anti-Casualisation – Cardiff unimpressive in new UCU ranking on working conditions for researchers
- And in case you missed it, Cardiff University fixing apparent recruitment problems with new font and shade of red
February 2024 Newsletter
- Call for General Meeting
- Update on the last General Meeting
- Update on The Big Conversation / Y Sgwrs Fawr – Unions meeting with the VC
- UCU Campaign for University Democracy – last chance to vote in the ballot
- Affiliation to Trades Council
- Solidarity & Events including local hustings for candidates in the ongoing UCU elections
November 2023 Newsletter
- Our participation in Y Sgwrs Fawr – The Big Conversation
- Help us tackle precarity – Members meeting on ‘relevant factors’ – 1pm Tue 21 Nov
- Workload and wellbeing
- Reply from Jane Bryant MS to our request for an Enquiry into HE in Wales.
- Academic Related and Professional Services (ARPS) Staff
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
- Solidarity with Palestine
October 2023 Newsletter
- Upcoming General Meetings
- University governance campaign – please vote
- Callout for members to respond to the consultation on USS pensions scheme
- Callout on collective and individual grievances
- Get the vote out campaign
- Llanelli Unites Community Fun Day on Sunday
18th September Strike Update
- Welcome week Strike called off – What now?
- Fighting fund
- Reballot
September 2023 Newsletter
- Welcome and reflections
- PGR contracts
- Get The Vote Out – a new ballot
- USS Pensions consultation
- Get involved with Cardiff UCU
- Workload Reps Training
July 7th 2023 MAB Update
- Graduation week strike 17-21 July
- Update on our dispute – the MAB and upcoming negotiations
- Communicating about the MAB with students
- Support student-led petition for fee refunds
- Solidarity Badge making + The Alternative Graduation Party
- Next MAB Solidarity Meetings
- MAB Whatsapp Group
June 23rd 2023 MAB Update
- Update from meeting with VC and communications from UEB
- Upcoming Strike Days
- Banner-Making Workshop – Wednesday 28 June at 5pm
June 15th 2023 MAB Update
- Erosion of academic standards during the MAB
- Boycotting exam boards
- Attending exam boards to uphold standards
- Contributing to the local fighting fund
May 25th 2023 MAB Update
- MAB survey
- Branch fighting fund GoFundMe
- Don’t make it easier for our employer to make deductions!
May 17th 2023 MAB Update
- Contributing to the local fighting fund
- Participating in the boycott
- Solidarity meeting for Welsh speakers on Friday at midday
- MAB Solidarity Meetings
March 2023 Newsletter
- Industrial action
- Workload
- Challenging sexual harassment and sexual violence workshop
- Dim diolch – submissions to University ‘Diolch’ initiative vetoed
- February Town Hall Meeting
- CO2 monitoring in buildings
- Branch fundraising
January 2023 Newsletter
- Industrial action
- Letter to the Vice-Chancellor about industrial action
- Challenging sexual harassment in the workplace
- New working group – Environmental Sustainability – please join working groups!
- Cardiff UCU Equality, Diversity and Inclusion survey – closing 31st Jan
- Improvements to University Parental leave policy
- Contribute to the branch – facilities time available!
- Report from the branch’s Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and the UK Delegates General Meeting (DGM)
December 2022 Newsletter
- Report on our EGM ahead of strike action in November
- Report on strike action
- Reporting your strike action
- Accessing the strike fighting fund
- Action Short of Strike (ASOS)
- Cardiff University Students’ Union votes to support UCU strikes
- Our branch’s commitment with equality and inclusion during the strikes and beyond
- Workers can win book launch
- DivestUSS
- Network to challenge racism – call to participate
- Diolch initiative – put your reps forward!
- Protest to save St. David’s Hall
November 2022 Newsletter
- Ballot outcomes and next steps in disputes
- Cardiff University Students’ Union vote on support for industrial action
- Branch meetings for ARPS members
- General Members’ Meeting motion on module evaluation scores passed
- University Research Culture Survey and Target Operating Model Feedback
- Mechanical Ventilation of teaching spaces/offices/ meeting rooms
October 2022 Newsletter
- Branch president’s message for the new semester
- Industrial action – please vote!
- Correspondence over summer agreement
- Academic Related Professional Services – New Rep
- PrideCymru and the trans* solidary group
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Priorities Survey
- Events, Solidarity and Wider Campaigns
