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November, 2016:

National Recruitment Week: University of Reading

Nov 24th, 2016
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The RUCU Committee ran a series of activities this week for UCU National Recruitment Week, including

  • a recruitment stall in the Palmer Building (blown in by the rain!) on Tuesday 22nd November
  • a recruitment stall in the Agriculture Building, Thursday 24th November
  • an all staff drop in session within the School of Archaeology, Geography and Environment lunchtime on Thursday 24th November.

 

Thursday 24th was also the Anti-casualisation day of action and nearly 60 branches have confirmed activities aimed at unionising staff on precarious contracts and calling for more secure employment in education. UCU’s high profile campaign is getting widespread coverage in the national media. The RUCU committee included promotional material relevant to this campaign on our recruitment stand in the Agriculture Building.

Thank you to all the members and non-members who stopped to chat and take information!

Who’s Spending Britain’s Billions?

Nov 3rd, 2016
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For anyone who missed the BBC documentary ‘ Who’s Spending Britain’s Billions?’ please click the link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0803b0s/whos-spending-britains-billions

As Britain continues to spend less on the public sector, do we really know where our taxes are being spent? Peretti uncovers what is happening behind closed doors in cash-strapped Britain and finds that local councils across the UK are signing contracts with management consultancy firms who can take a percentage of any savings they find. This documentary also reveals that hundreds of the millions of taxpayers’ pounds spent on these contracts are covered by confidential deals meaning very little detail is known about them. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) features within this documentary. In this revealing insight Peretti asks if the public deserve to know more about how those charged with managing Britain’s billions are spending it.