{"id":594,"date":"2021-10-14T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=594"},"modified":"2021-10-14T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:36:50","slug":"notice-of-failure-to-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2021\/10\/14\/notice-of-failure-to-agree\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Failure to Agree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our regional rep., Mike Moran, has today sent the following notice of failure to agree to Karen Cox. It is the preliminary stage of a ballot for industrial action in our defence of jobs and working conditions, although we sincerely hope to get these reassurances without the need to go to ballot.<\/p>\n

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Dear Professor Cox,<\/p>\n

Re: Notice of Failure to Agree<\/p>\n

UCU hereby give notice of a \u2018Failure to Agree\u2019 on the following issues, having requested a positive response by no later than 5pm on the 13th October to the letter from the branch committee to you on 7th October 2021.<\/p>\n

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  1. We seek a commitment from you that no one within the UCU bargaining group will be made compulsory redundant in the calendar years 2022 and 2023.<\/li>\n
  2. In consultation with UCU, an urgent review of PS and academic workloads under the new OFS structures must be undertaken in 2021, and published by March 2022. This review must include a survey to all staff and consider all options in improving working conditions, including hiring more staff and reverting back to previous School\/ Department specific PS roles. This review must also take into account the different\u00a0workload\u00a0capacities of staff from different marginalised groups.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  3. No detriment to the WAM of academics under the new standardised Divisional WAM structures, in the calendar years 2022 and 2023.<\/li>\n
  4. All staff workloads are affected by how many precarious staff the university employs. We therefore require a commitment that, in the academic year 22-23, the University will preserve 100% of the budgets for precarious teaching staff within each School\/ area compared to the academic year 2019\/20 (pre-pandemic). If the budgets have increased in some areas in the academic year 21\/22, the higher figure should be maintained.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We sincerely hope you are able to provide the assurances we have requested and there is no need to enter into a formal trade dispute. Please formally respond by 5pm on Wednesday 20th October 2021.<\/p>\n

    Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n

    Michael Moran
    Regional Official HE & FE South East Region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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