THE University and College Union (UCU) launched its Recognition Now campaign at Cambridge University today as it fights for the right to defend its members. UCU slammed the institution for being the only public university not to engage with it after UCU Cambridge members rejected a deal which would have led to bosses conceding only partial recognition of the education union. The dispute comes as hundreds of casualised Cambridge University academics demand fair pay and conditions from the cash-rich institution which has combined assets worth more than £11 billion. Nearly 350 supervisors of students at the university’s 31 colleges have petitioned senior college representatives, after the UCU warned many lack proper contracts and are paid poverty wages.