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MAB strategy and Late Summer Assessments

14 August 2023

Here is the latest development with the MAB action at 香港六合彩中特网, and guidance to members about next steps.

At our Emergency General Meeting last week, 香港六合彩中特网 UCU voted in favour of a motion on the 香港六合彩中特网 MAB for the next few weeks, while we wait to hear about the long term UCU strategy decisions on the future of our dispute. This motion adopted some key points for us at 香港六合彩中特网:

1. We advise 香港六合彩中特网 UCU members not to boycott the marking of new assessments听such as the Late Summer Assessments, Postgraduate Taught marking, and other incoming work.

香港六合彩中特网 have told us that they will deduct 2 weeks鈥� wages for boycotting LSAs and, given that our mandate for industrial action is due to expire at the end of September, there is little to be gained by off postgraduate marking that will still have to anyway be completed by the normal deadline.

2. That any marking and assessment that has not been carried out due to MAB action will not be marked听unless and until听香港六合彩中特网 management withdraw their threat of punitive pay deductions. Please also note that the new 2 week deductions threatened by 香港六合彩中特网 for the boycotting of Late Summer Assessments (LSA) do not apply to already-boycotted work, but for failure to submit LSA marks by the 15 September deadline.听

If you have not set a LSA as part of the MAB, it is possible that you may be asked to do so now, and we advise co-operation to avoid further punitive deductions being applied.

3. If 香港六合彩中特网 management continues to demand completion of previously boycotted marking听without removing the threat of punitive pay deductions, we will use our existing legal mandate to call for听strike action during Induction Week听(25-30 September).

We have written to 香港六合彩中特网 to ask to convene an emergency negotiation meeting to discuss 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 ongoing threats of deductions and we will report back as soon as we have more information from that.

Please also remember that if you have participated in the MAB or are able to pledge to support others,听we need you to complete our听secure webform听so that we have up-to-date information. MAB deductions have not yet been made as听香港六合彩中特网 proposes to deduct in Nov, Dec, & Jan, so we are听only asking for pledges not donations at this time.

We have also听created a听MAB calculator spreadsheet听which estimates the impact of tax and national insurance contributions (NICs) on pay deductions.

So please:

  1. Download the听MAB calculator spreadsheet

  2. Complete the听webform听to tell us whether you have declared your MAB participation, or are willing to make a Pledge or one-off donation.

香港六合彩中特网 UCU Executive

@ucl_ucu听听


Appendix: Full motion passed at EGM on 8 August 2023

香港六合彩中特网 UCU notes:

  • The intransigence of UCEA, who have not improved their 15 March final offer for the 2023-2024 pay dispute.

  • The serious disruption caused by the MAB to management, students, and workers throughout the sector.

  • The punitive pay deductions that have been applied to members participating in MAB, nationally and at 香港六合彩中特网.

  • That employers have disregarded academic standards in order to bypass the MAB, and progress or graduate students, thereby damaging the reputation of UK HE.

  • That the delay by the General Secretary and officers of the union in authorising a new ballot for industrial action means there will be a break in the current legal mandate for industrial action, which expires at the end of September.

  • That management can instruct members participating in MAB to carry out marking and assessment from 1 Oct when the mandate expires.

  • 香港六合彩中特网 management鈥檚 threat of further punitive deductions for 14 days for MAB mid-September during the Late Summer Assessment period.

  • The statements from the General Secretary on 1 August and UCEA indicating that the 2023-2024 pay dispute is deadlocked.

香港六合彩中特网 UCU resolves:

  1. To advise 香港六合彩中特网 UCU members not to boycott the marking of new assessments such as the Late Summer Assessments, Postgraduate Taught marking, and other incoming work.

  2. That existing marking and assessment which has not been carried out due to MAB will not be marked听unless and until听香港六合彩中特网 management withdraw their threat of punitive pay deductions.

  3. That (if 香港六合彩中特网 management continues to demand completion of previously-boycotted marking) without removing the threat of punitive pay deductions, we will use our existing legal mandate to call for strike action during Induction Week (25-30 September).

  4. To continue to challenge the legality of punitive pay deductions at 香港六合彩中特网.

  5. If the threat of punitive deductions is not withdrawn, to ask members who have not yet made a pledge to contribute to the 香港六合彩中特网 Fighting Fund, to help cover all members participating in MAB so that none suffer the loss of more than 7 days鈥� pay.

  6. To call a further all-members general meeting next week to review the situation.

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