UNIVERSITIES and Colleges Union (UCU) delegates descended on Glasgow on Saturday for their first face-to-face congress since lockdown during a rare weekend of uninterrupted sunshine.

“First things first, Glasgow is my favourite UK city, and it’s great to be back,” the union’s general secretary Jo Grady told the Morning Star during a discussion on industrial organising and international solidarity.

“As you know, we took a firm stance as a union on the pandemic to keep people safe, so it’s great to have everyone back in one room, making decisions, having debates, having votes, having fringes.”