2023 Industrial Action info for members
Week 1 strike [Week 3 term]: Wednesday 1 Feb. We will picket from 8.30-10.30 then make our way together the national demonstration, assembling at Portland Place from 11am. Some GUCU …
Updates
Goldsmiths Casualised Staff Petition
On 15 December 2022, Goldsmiths UCU officers sent the following statement to Goldsmiths Senior Management Team on behalf of casualised staff at Goldsmiths. We are casualised academics working across Goldsmiths …
GUCU Statement on the Non-Payment of Casual Staff
In the middle of a cost of living crisis, Goldsmiths College has withheld salary payment for two months from scores of casualied teaching staff. This has thrown many members of …
2022 Industrial Action info for members
Strike Days The days of our National Strike are due to take place on Thurs 24, Friday 25 and Weds 30 November 2022. Given how short the strike period is this term, …
Info for Students on UCU Industrial Action
What do I need to know about the strike? Many of the staff at Goldsmiths are part of the University and College Union (UCU). You will have heard that UCU, …
GUCU statement on the reinstatement of Des and Gholam
07.11.2022 On Friday 28 October, 115 days after the Head and Deputy Head of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS), Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany, were suspended for emailing students …
Solidarity and Donation Motion for Anthony Braithwaite’s Eviction Resistance Campaign
Passed at a quorate branch meeting 26.10.2022 Proposer: Vincent Møystad Seconder: Roberto Mozzachiodi This Branch Notes Anthony Braithwaite, Lewisham resident, bus driver, trade unionist, and father, has been struggling to …
Motion: Supporting the People’s Assembly Demonstration on 5 November
Passed at a quorate branch meeting on 26.10.2022 Supporting the People’s Assembly Demonstration on 5 November Proposer: Feyzi Ismail Seconder: Marian Carty This branch notes: 1. The financial …
London Weighting Increase to Reflect Cost of Living
Passed unanimously at GUCU branch meeting on 26.10.2022 London Weighting Increase to Reflect Cost of Living This branch notes: 1. Joint Goldsmiths UCU-UNISON negotiations with SMT in 2018 …
Proposed Motion: Faculty for “Women, Life, Freedom”
This motion was passed at a quorate GUCU branch meeting 26.10.2022 This branch notes: The latest uprisings in Iran which began in protest against the murder of a young Kurdish …