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Motions for Wednesday’s extraordinary general meeting + other news

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Text of email sent to all members 5 July. (Agenda not published on the website; if you’re a member and haven’t received the agenda please email ucu@leeds.ac.uk)

Extraordinary general meeting 12pm Wednesday 10 July

The committee called this ‘EGM’ for all members because of a load of urgent issues going on now which they think members should have the opportunity to take a collective position on.

It’s 12pm – 1pm on Wednesday 10 July in Michael Sadler seminar room LG15

The attached agenda includes all motions on those subjects for members to decide if they agree these should be branch policies/strategies. The meeting was called to discuss:

  • USS pensions dispute
  • Pay and Equality dispute
  • Head of School appointments
  • Misuse of lecture capture by the university
  • UniForum (another round of collecting benchmarking data on “the efficiency and effectiveness of administration and support services”)
  • Discussion boards for in-course feedback
  • Timetabling (which includes a motion on workloads negotiating principles)
  • Centralisation of admissions

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Leeds Trades Unions Council conference on climate change

Members may be interested in ‘How can trade unions meet the challenge of climate emergency?’ a conference on 19 October organised by Leeds Trades Union Council.

Council of Europe LGBTI survey

The UCU equality and participation unit is encouraging LGBT+ UCU members to participate in the Council of Europe LGBTI survey / Enquête de l’EU sur les LGBTI to help the survey reach as many people as possible.

Support: sexual harassment, stress, debt, migration issues

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This page was last updated on 5 July 2019

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