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Congratulations聽and thank you to you and all 香港六合彩中特网 UCU members who took part in the reballot on our two disputes! Many thanks also especially to those members who contributed to the GetTheVoteOut campaign/activities. We聽beat the turnout threshold with a bigger turnout than the last ballot! UCU members voted overwhelmingly (over 80%) in each ballot to give the union a mandate for industrial action聽(see the full results at the end of this email).

Consultative Ballots聽 - vote 'REJECT' on Four Fights

颁耻谤谤别苍迟濒测,听two formal consultative ballots are taking place聽on the next steps in these disputes. You should receive details on how to vote in these soon. You will be asked whether you accept or reject the UCEA proposals on the Four Fights and whether you accept or 鈥淣ote鈥� the employers statements on USS (there is no employer offer on USS, so to 鈥淣ote鈥� is equivalent to requiring negotiators to push employers further).

The Higher Education Committee of the UCU nationally is the elected body democratically charged with leading our disputes, and has voted to recommend 鈥楻EJECT鈥� in the pay and conditions (UCEA) ballot, and 鈥楴ote鈥� in the USS pensions consultation.

Your 香港六合彩中特网 UCU Executive Committee聽have studied the proposals carefully and recommend that you vote 鈥淩EJECT鈥� in the Four Fights/pay and conditions consultation. It is ultimately your decision, but it would not be responsible of us to fail to warn members of the negative consequences of accepting the employer proposals which we think are decisive.

At present, the only commitment from employers in the Four Fights dispute is to discuss the core issues in the future. The employers have already stated that these discussions will be limited to stating goals, rather than setting binding commitments.聽

For example, the employers say they will consult their members on a recommendation to take action on 鈥渮ero hours contracts鈥�. However, they also say individual contractual arrangements are ultimately down to each employer. Note also that the bulk of UCU members on casualised contracts are not on zero hours contracts. They are on as-and-when or fixed-term contracts, or on contracts which are fixed-term in all but name (鈥渆nd dates subject to funding鈥�). On our other demands such as pay gaps and workloads, the commitment is simply to talk (a commitment employers have made before).

On the immediately pressing issue of pay, the employers have simply聽imposed a 15% real-terms pay cut on all of us. In the middle of a cost of living crisis this means sacrificing our living standards for the sake of vice chancellors' aspirations.

Not only are employers offering very little on the other three fights, their offer is conditional on our giving up our pay dispute for at least a year. We cannot recommend our members giving up a dispute over something so fundamental in exchange for so little.

Not only are these Four Fights (pay and conditions) proposals meagre pickings, they are聽. For this reason and as a matter of sound industrial strategy it makes no sense to accept the offer, especially when we have a decisive and powerful mandate from our reballot and聽notice served on the employers for a Marking and Assessment Boycott聽starting in April.

You may be interested in聽casualised members in the sector, which highlights how accepting the employer proposals would abandon them and their claims.

USS Dispute

The 香港六合彩中特网 UCU EC is not making an explicit recommendation on the USS dispute at this stage. However, it is worth considering the different views on this issue.聽

• Two of the three national negotiators have聽聽stating that they think there is nothing else on the USS pension to be won at this point.

• At the same time the third negotiator, who did not agree with the statement, together with a UCU ex-negotiator, has produced a short blog together with another ex-negotiator:聽聽This argues that we have not achieved what we can or need to.

• The original joint UCU-UUK statement on this can be read here for reference:聽

To repeat, the Higher Education Committee of UCU, the body democratically elected to determine strategy in our disputes, is recommending members vote 鈥榯o NOTE鈥� in this consultative ballot on USS. This is to give negotiators more time to push further on USS.

香港六合彩中特网 UCU Executive Committee

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Results of Re-ballot

Pay and Conditions dispute (UCEA)

Are you prepared to take industrial action consisting of strike action?

• Yes: 85.65%
• No: 14.35%

Are you prepared to take industrial action consisting of action short of strike action?

• Yes: 89.92%
• No: 10.08%

Turnout: 56.41%

USS pensions dispute

Are you prepared to take industrial action consisting of strike action?

• Yes: 89.05%
• No: 10.95%

Are you prepared to take industrial action consisting of action short of strike action?

• Yes: 91.61%
• No: 8.39%

Turnout: 58.40%