UCU pitches recruitment drive to ‘shift balance of power’

Union wants over half of university staff as members as it eyes battle over ‘casualisation’

The University and College Union has set out its ambition to “massively increase” membership as it gears up to fight casual working in universities.

Speaking at the UCU’s interim congress on 13 February, general secretary Jo Grady said the union’s membership level was “still not enough to shift the balance of power in our favour and start winning improvements in our working conditions rather than defending what we already have”.