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Please join our picketing from 07:30 at the Quad entrance on Gower Street. The forecast is for warmer weather next week but it will be very cold in the mornings so please wrap-up warm.

At a very well attended meeting yesterday members discussed their experience of the strike. The mood was positive but determined to see the dispute through to a negotiated agreement. We debated two motions (appendices 1 & 2 below). Motion 1 was defeated (no votes for and six abstentions). Motion 2 was passed unanimously, nem con.

Also on Monday there will be a lobby of the UCU / UUK talks facilitated by ACAS from 8.30am, at , 66 Portland Place. The aim of the lobby is to support our negotiators and remind all parties that there is no pension deficit!

We need to prioritise picketing Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø, so we will arrange for a delegation to visit on the day. But if you can make it in to Central London early on Monday, you could go straight there.

We have scheduled a further formal EGM meeting next week, Friday 9 March to consider the progress of the dispute, 13:00-14:00, venue TBC.

Please keep your non-union colleagues updated, encourage them to join in the action and of course to join UCU.

Keep up-to-date by following us on @Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø_UCU and . You can also see details of the teach-outs that are happening during the strike on our Facebook page.

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Appendix 1 - first motion discussed at 1 March Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø UCU EGM

Suspend the strike while new negotiations between UCU and UUK with ACAS are underway.

Appendix 2 - second motion discussed at 1 March Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø UCU EGM

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø UCU congratulates UCU national officers, staff and the thousands of reps and members who made our first five days of strikes such a success.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø UCU believes the union's campaign has fundamentally undermined the employers arguments for the attack on USS.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø UCU therefore resolves to continue the present strike programme and believes that we need to announce plans to escalate our industrial action if no settlement is reached.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø UCU confirms that there is no deficit. With the employers arguments collapsing, our negotiators must demand that the status quo prevails.