{"id":687,"date":"2022-10-12T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=687"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:02:11","slug":"kent-ucu-votes-to-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2022\/10\/12\/kent-ucu-votes-to-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent UCU votes to ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kent UCU votes to ballot<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today you passed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/12AIiu0GqQPkqkVOS3-EBra_-ADBb2G9yqA4c1I-qO1k\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a motion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to launch an industrial action ballot over job security &amp; other issues at Kent, with 98% voting in favour.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was the highest ever proportional meeting turnout in the history of your branch.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leading organisers from the strongest UCU branches in the country &#8211; Sussex and Liverpool &#8211; passionately endorsed your local strategy, pledging further support for your campaign. You also passed a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1qRNvu3H3sZ7qvoEuEKYGTaHB0-T_lDCilMHSJswtGac\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">motion in solidarity with Iranians<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your elected committee are negotiating with senior management right now and they are immeasurably strengthened by your motion to ballot. Any potential industrial action would be subject to a further democratic vote by you and you can read <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">our website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for background on all of these issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>What you need to do now:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Attend the meeting for members in A&amp;H\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For both professional services &amp; academic staff<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">See your email registered with UCU for the zoom link<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monday 1pm (17th Oct)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Email <\/b><a href=\"mailto:krichardson-dawes@ucu.org.uk\"><b>krichardson-dawes@ucu.org.uk<\/b><\/a><b> to sign up for specific campaign tasks to defend jobs\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even half an hour of your time could make the difference <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent UCU votes to ballot &nbsp; Today you passed a motion to launch an industrial action ballot over job security &amp; other issues at Kent, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2022\/10\/12\/kent-ucu-votes-to-ballot\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78849,"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\/687"}],"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\/78849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}