Tuesday, July 14, 2026 | Branch News, Dispute, Home Page, Local Dispute, Stories
Despite commitments to avoid compulsory redundancies and clear risks to September teaching, Sheffield Hallam University Executive Board has shown no leniency in their current raft of job cuts. Staff affected by the current wave of redundancies have faced what UCU...
Sunday, June 14, 2026 | Branch News, Dispute, Home Page, Local Dispute, Stories
Sheffield, 14 June 2026 Sheffield Hallam University’s University and College Union (UCU) branch has welcomed a significant victory after the University Executive confirmed it will no longer pursue plans to move academic staff into a subsidiary company. The proposed...
Friday, October 17, 2025 | Branch News, General News, Home Page, Member Update, Stories
In the last academic year, the university moved to a new system of pay claims for Associate Lecturers (ALs). Under this system, instead of ALs claiming only for their face-to-face teaching hours and then having this number multiplied by 2.5, they are expected to claim...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | Branch News, General News, Local Dispute, Stories
Tuesday 10 September 2025 A strike ballot has opened at Sheffield Hallam University as staff fight against job cuts and worsening working conditions, the University and College Union (UCU) confirmed today. The ballot for strike action and action short of strike (ASOS)...
Sunday, December 1, 2019 | Dispute, Local Dispute, National Dispute, Stories
Anonymous Academic Reproduced here courtesy of @PrecariousUni I passed my Viva 7 years ago. Since then I have had over ten fixed term contracts of varying lengths and pay. The best (and worst) contracts were ones where I was paid a decent wage for a...
Thursday, November 28, 2019 | Dispute, Local Dispute, National Dispute, Stories
Dr Jonathan Bridge, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography. Reproduced here with the kind permission from Dr Bridge, for whom we offer our thanks for allowing us to do so and solidarity. Why I’m striking #1: the point of exploration Well, it is 6.30 am on...
