You will have seen in an email from UCU general secretary Jo Grady this week that further decisions as to the progression and escalation of our industrial action will be taken in a meeting of UCU’s higher education committee (HEC) in the week beginning 17 January, and that there will be a branch delegate meeting on 18 January for branches to feed in views and positions. As a result, I am calling an extraordinary general meeting for 1pm on Friday 14 January, for the purpose of discussing our feedback and views on the progression of our industrial action. 

If you wish to propose a motion to that meeting please send it to ucu@leeds.ac.uk by 12 noon on Thursday 6 January – that will ensure that we can circulate any motions to members in good time to allow for people to propose amendments. As before, I will only accept late motions if they relate to developments subsequent to the motion deadline (for example, proposals made by HQ after that date for consideration by branches). Link to follow.

This post is based on an email to members from branch president Chloe Wallace on 10 December 2021