{"id":573,"date":"2021-07-21T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=573"},"modified":"2021-07-21T17:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:27:29","slug":"kent-ucu-victory-university-commits-to-no-compulsory-redundancies-of-ucu-members-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2021\/07\/21\/kent-ucu-victory-university-commits-to-no-compulsory-redundancies-of-ucu-members-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent UCU Victory! University Commits to no Compulsory Redundancies of UCU Members in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#x1f389;Congratulations! &#x1f389; You have defended your job and those of fellow UCU members!<\/h3>\n<p>Our agreement with the University gives UCU members protection from job cuts in 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>E-Vote Result:<\/p>\n<p>Do you accept the agreement between UCU and the university to resolve the dispute over compulsory redundancies in 2021?<\/p>\n<p>Yes: 96%<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to your vote in the ballot and your agreement to accept a deal, our dispute over compulsory redundancies in 2021 is now closed.\u00a0Your ballot beat job cuts!<\/p>\n<p>Before your vote in the industrial action ballot, Kent University was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drawing up redundancy selection criteria for academics.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Aiming to cut \u00a32 million from staff \u201ccosts\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Refusing to rule out compulsory redundancies (CRs) in 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What have we won?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No CRs as part of 2million \u2018cost savings\u2019<\/li>\n<li>No CRs due to recruitment\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>No CRs due to any shortfalls in income<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/UCUJointStatementCRs2021\">UoK UCU &amp; senior management\u2019s full dispute resolution statement can be read here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f389;Congratulations! &#x1f389; You have defended your job and those of fellow UCU members! Our agreement with the University gives UCU members protection from job cuts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2021\/07\/21\/kent-ucu-victory-university-commits-to-no-compulsory-redundancies-of-ucu-members-in-2021\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39717,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155772,177089],"tags":[1067,229865,229884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"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\/39717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}