Welcome to all our members as we go into the new academic year 2024-25, and especially to any new members joining us this month. Remember that you can contact us anytime on ucu@canterbury.ac.uk for advice and support on workplace issues.

We hope to develop this website over the course of this academic year to improve the information and resources we can share with members, and make it more functional. You may see messages such as “Please note that this website is in the process of being updated. Please bear with us as we work to make improvements for you” on various pages in the meantime.

We have updated the ‘Your Local Branch page’ with the new Executive Committee members for 2024-25, and will soon be adding a poster of the Exec so you can put a faces to the names.

Members will receive an invitation to the first General Branch Meeting, scheduled for a rearranged time of 1000-1130 on Thursday 19th September 2024, hybrid on Teams and in Lg41a on the Canterbury Campus. The agenda has been updated to focus on the Vice Chancellor’s recent all-staff announcement at: https://cccu.canterbury.ac.uk/notices/2024/Important-All-Staff-Briefing-%e2%80%93-Plans-for-202425.aspx and will precede his all-staff briefing, but will also include updates from the summer SCANDI redundancy consultation, a reminder of the new Executive Committee for 2024/25, and a discussion on the final offer for the pay and pay-related joint unions claim for 24-25 from UCEA (see attached UCEA offer and UCU National Negotiators Report), including the questions UCU want branches to answer at a forthcoming Branch Delegate Meeting on 24th September 2024.

We hope to see as many of you as possible at the first Branch Meeting, and good luck to all for the forthcoming academic year!