emergency all members’ meeting, Tuesday 10 January, 11am
We’re holding an emergency all members meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, at 11am to decide what we as a branch think the next steps in our dispute should be.
A discussion and a vote will be held. As your delegates, we will submit the results to the national Branch Delegate Meeting (BDM) taking place tomorrow at 4pm. The results of the BDM will then be transmitted to UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) which meets on Thursday, 12 January to decide what the next steps will be.
Please make every effort to attend the discussion and to vote. This is your chance to have your say and to influence what UCU does next to win our dispute. Zoom link in email.
The three questions which national UCU has drafted and asked us to discuss and vote on are as follows:
- Strike action
Do you support either:
(i) A strategy of escalating strike action, involving a pattern of escalating days of action through February, March, and April, engaging members again in March/April to take stock of the dispute situation and to agree any further strike action if needed.
Or:
(ii) A strategy of all-out indefinite strike action, involving taking industrial action every day, starting in February and continuing until members vote to end the action, or the ballot mandate expires.
- Marking and assessment boycott (MAB)
Do you support either:
(i) A MAB beginning on January 23.
Or:
(ii) A MAB beginning on April 17 to target all final/end of year summative assessments beginning that month.
- Re-ballot
Do you support sending the strongest possible message to the employers by immediately announcing our intention to re-ballot to renew our mandate for further action?