UCU Northern Region Podcast

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This podcast is produced by the Northern Regional Office of UCU - the University and College Union

  1. An interview with Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber

    06/17/2025

    An interview with Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber

    Our podcast returns from an extended break, with an interview with the newly appointed TUC Regional Secretary for the Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber - Dave Pike. Jon Bryan (UCU Regional Support Official) asking the questions. Dave Pike appointed https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/dave-pike-appointed-new-regional-secretary-northeast-yorkshire-and-humber-tuc Regional TUC comment on Higher Education in the NE: https://www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/stakes-are-high-if-university-funding-crisis-continues TUC Reps Courses https://www.tuc.org.uk/training/TUCcourses Anti-Right and Populism Briefings: MIDDLESBROUGH 24/06/25 https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/tuc-education-anti-right-and-populism-regional-briefing-middlesbrough SUNDERLAND 27/06/25 https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/tuc-education-anti-right-and-populism-regional-briefing-sunderland

    20 min

  2. 12/19/2022

    Industrial Action in December 2022 - voices from the picket lines

    In the last episode of our podcast for 2022, Jon Bryan (UCU Regional Support Official, Northern Region) visits a number of picket lines involving different trade unions, who are all in dispute with their employer. More details on the disputes that are mentioned in this episode can be found here: UNITE at Shelter: www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2022/december/shelter-strike-suspended-following-improved-offer RCN in Newcastle: www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/151222-the-newcastle-upon-tyne-hospitals-nhs-foundation-trust GMB, Baker Hughes, Newcastle upon Tyne: www.gmbneyh.org.uk/more_than_200_newcastle_energy_workers_over_miserly_pay_offer RMT Strikes: www.rmt.org.uk/news/picket-line-details-december-13 Darlington College UCU: www.ucu.org.uk/article/12629/Staff-to-strike-at-Darlington-College Furness College UCU: www.ucu.org.uk/article/12635/Furness-College-staff-to-strike-over-low-pay

    28 min

  3. 11/06/2022

    Pay and Industrial Action in Further Education: Strikes and Pickets at Newcastle College; Balloting for Action at Darlington College

    In this episode, we have put together some clips to inform listeners about the disputes in our region on pay in Further Education at Newcastle College and Darlington College. This episode contains an extract from a speech by Neil Stockton, Branch Chair at Darlington College. It also has extracts from an interview given by the Branch Secretary at Newcastle College, Emma Campbell. Finally, there is an interview on a lively picket line at Newcastle College where one of those on strike tell BBC Radio Newcastle what the issues are. Be warned, this last interview is from a noisy picket line which the Branch had dubbed "Wild Wednesday". People's Assembly, Darlington Coverage: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23103801.we-members-cant-heat-homes-darlington-protestors-demand-general-election/ Full Speeches: https://www.facebook.com/thenorthernecho/videos/830444605077178 Darlington College UCU Press Release on Ballot for Industrial Action on Pay: https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/12597 YouTube Story about Newcastle College Strike Action: https://youtu.be/xVy4Oae6qhs

    16 min

  4. 10/14/2022

    Pay and Industrial Action in Further Education

    In this episode, we cover current industrial action in further education, as well as a look back at previous disputes and what we can learn from them. UCU Regional Support Official, Jon Bryan, speaks to UCU representatives at Carlisle College (Matthew Cookson) and Emma Campbell from Newcastle College. They tells us about their current action, and we also hear from people on the picket line. This episode also includes an introduction that Jon Bryan recently gave to a meeting of the Socialist Education Association (North) on current and previous industrial action across the FE sector.

    29 min
  5. Branch President of Durham University UCU, Sol Gamsu, talks about the last 12 months and the future.

    07/02/2022

    Branch President of Durham University UCU, Sol Gamsu, talks about the last 12 months and the future.

    In this in-depth interview, Sol Gamsu talks to Jon Bryan about the last 12 months of organising and action by UCU members and reps at Durham University. Sol explains how they have built on the good work of others, and outlines some of the ways that they have managed to keep members engaged through the prolonged industrial disputes that Higher Education has seen.

    39 min
  6. Low Pay in the FE Sector and the dispute and Industrial Action Ballot at Furness College

    04/14/2022

    Low Pay in the FE Sector and the dispute and Industrial Action Ballot at Furness College

    In this episode, Jon Bryan speaks to Neil Stockton, the UCU Chair of the Northern Region for FE, about the scale and impact of low pay in Further Education. We then speak to the UCU Branch Secretary at Furness College about pay and what they are doing to challenge the below-inflation pay awards that they have been getting. Amanda Rotherham tells us about their ballot result and what’s next for the Branch.

    15 min
  7. A local dispute about job roles and contracts at Northumbria University - March 2022.

    03/03/2022

    A local dispute about job roles and contracts at Northumbria University - March 2022.

    In this episode, recorded on the picket lines (02/03/22), Jon Bryan talks to Joe Street about the national Four Fights campaign by UCU. Adam Hansen then explains why the Branch are balloting for action on local issues of concern.

    8 min
  8. Industrial Action: Strike, Ballots, Action short of a strike

    12/15/2021

    Industrial Action: Strike, Ballots, Action short of a strike

    In this episode, we speak to trade union reps about industrial action. Speaking to us are Matt Perry from Newcastle University UCU on the Trade Union Act and why they are re-balloting; Laura Campbell from Durham University UCU about their ballot results and strike action; Andy Feeney from Northumbria University UCU talks about the issue of workload - a key part of their industrial action campaign; John Hall from the NASUWT talks about a long running strike at Furrowfield School in Gateshead; and the National Education Union's Brian Metcalf tells us about the attacks on pensions in the independent sector.

    37 min
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This podcast is produced by the Northern Regional Office of UCU - the University and College Union

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    UCU Northern Region
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    38
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