Dear University of Kent UCU members,<\/p>\n
This is the latest news that the branch has about the USS action:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/defenduss.web.ucu.org.uk\/2015\/branches-prepare-for-action-to-restart\/<\/a><\/p>\n It is a very short article, so I quote it in full here:<\/p>\n “Branches prepare for action to restart<\/p>\n 8 January 2015<\/p>\n UCU branches have been asked to prepare members to recommence the assessment boycott on Friday 16 January, to be confirmed after a specially arranged Higher Education Committee (HEC) has met on 14 January.<\/p>\n UCU has also served a fresh notice on the employers that continuous action short of a strike in the form of an assessment and marking boycott will restart; this comes after the suspension of action to allow negotiations following an HEC meeting on 19 November 2014.<\/p>\n The special HEC called for 14 January will allow negotiators to provide an update on progress. A report of this meeting will be communicated to branches as soon as possible.<\/p>\n In the meantime branches have been advised to prepare for the action and reconvene industrial action committees.”<\/p>\n Therefore we expect to have further news in the next few days, but we anticipate the assessment boycott will restart THIS Friday.<\/p>\n We will hold a branch meeting next week, Thurs 22nd January (week 13), at 1pm in the Peter Brown room, The Missing Link, Darwin College.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=D.PeterBro<\/a><\/p>\n Please attend if at all possible.<\/p>\n We will primarily discuss the latest news on the USS dispute, but if members would like to add other items to the agenda, please contact me as soon as possible.<\/p>\n Best wishes,<\/p>\n Owen Lyne<\/p>\n Branch secretary<\/p>\n University of Kent UCU<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear University of Kent UCU members, This is the latest news that the branch has about the USS action: http:\/\/defenduss.web.ucu.org.uk\/2015\/branches-prepare-for-action-to-restart\/ It is a very short … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}