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Strike ballot for fair and equal pay is now open

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The strike ballot opened 30 August and will close Friday 19 October. The union’s national and local committees are both urging members to vote YES for both strike action and action short of a strike up to and including a marking and assessment boycott. To strike we will need to get the 50 percent turnout required by the Tories’ anti-strike law, while the law forbids us from using methods which would make that easier such as secure online voting or workplace ballot boxes. So union reps and members will be reminding everyone to vote throughout this period to make sure we’re not prevented by a biased law from taking action if members want to. Please make sure the details on your My UCU account are up to date. If you haven’t received your ballot paper please check My UCU to see which address you asked it to be sent to. If you haven’t received it there or you can’t get to that address please follow this link to request a replacement ballot paper. Keep an eye on leedsucu.org.uk/pay and @leedsucu on Twitter for the latest updates. Please tell us when you’ve voted We’re emailing all @leedsucu members eligible to vote … Read more

New UCU branch committee members

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The new UCU branch committee for the 2018-2019 academic year takes office from 1 August. Thanks to everyone who served on the committee for the last year, especially those of you who haven’t stood for re-election, who have done a great deal to help UCU members over many years. Members who were on the committee last year but aren’t this year are Andy Stafford, Charles Umney, Gavin Reid, Jill Edwards, Kyle Griffith, Simon Hewitt, Stephen Lax and Steven French. We’re welcoming new members to the committee: Alan Roe, Andi Rylands, Chloe Wallace, Dima Barakat Chami, Lata Naranaswamy, Laura Loyola Hernandez, Peter Tennant and Rachel Walls. The full list of members elected to the committee for this academic year is at leedsucu.org.uk/committee-members-2018-2019 The full list of department representatives, including postgraduate reps, anticasualisation reps and workload reps, is at leedsucu.org.uk/about-us/departmental-representatives. There are still some departments without a UCU rep – email ucu@leeds.ac.uk if you would like to nominate a colleague to be a UCU rep or if you’d like to do it yourself.

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