MMUnion - Campaigns

Campaigns

The main campaign for MMUnion in 2012 has been 'The Real Cost' campaign. This is based around students being given the real cost upfront of being a student at MMU and revealing everything considered a 'hidden cost' this included things such as work books, club and society memberships, printing and technical supplies. MMUnion is currently looking at working with MMU to banish these to allow MMU students better control of their finances.

In recent years the students' union have successfully campaigned against Business School exams being held in a tent, and supported Shane Ward on his way to winning The X Factor. It also started a scheme of co-operative housing for students in Manchester.

The union also successfully lobbied for access privileges to be reinstated, for students of MMU, at the John Rylands University Library of the University of Manchester.

The union is currently campaigning on the £2.7 million of bursaries that the university predicted to, but hasn't, paid out to its students in the last year. This is part of a wider campaign on education funding and the union is supporting and promoting the National Union of Students' Broke & Broken campaign.

The union won a campaign in 2008 to extend the library hours until midnight and is currently working on to make 24 hour computer drop-in-centre available for students.

The union, together with the MMU LGBT society and the National Union of Students, are running the Please Give Blood Because I Can't campaign, lobbying and demonstrating against the National Blood Services lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men from giving blood. They are running a series of demonstrations in Manchester city centre to raise awareness and encourage people to give blood on behalf of a healthy gay man who cannot, in which the President of the union and Chair of Student Council gave blood. Debates are also being held on the issue.