University And College Union
The University and College Union (UCU) is a British trade union formed by the merger in 2006 of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE).
The union was formed on 1 June 2006. For the first year a set of transitional rules was in place until full operational unity was achieved in June 2007. The union has around 116,000 members and is the largest further and higher education union in the world.
During the first year of the new union the existing General Secretaries (Sally Hunt and Paul Mackney) remained in post, managing the union’s day to day business jointly. Paul Mackney did not stand for General Secretary of UCU owing to ill-health and Sally Hunt was elected General Secretary of the union on 9 March 2007, and took office on 1 June 2007.
The logo of the new union was designed by London design group sans+baum.
The UCU is regularly criticized for its repeated boycotting of Israeli academics and is subject to claims of institutional antisemitism.
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