{"id":690,"date":"2022-10-24T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=690"},"modified":"2022-10-24T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:26:06","slug":"local-negotiations-update-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2022\/10\/24\/local-negotiations-update-important\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCAL Negotiations Update &#8211; Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Important Progress &#8211; LOCAL Negotiations are Continuing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2022\/10\/12\/kent-ucu-votes-to-ballot\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because you voted to ballot for LOCAL industrial action if necessary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, EG have now offered a \u2018commitment to all Arts and Humanities staff that there will be no compulsory redundancies as a result of the current review.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This represents good progress. Negotiations are continuing between UCU and senior management over the issues members are concerned about. The UCU committee have suggested a four week pause to the LOCAL dispute and ballot processes to allow time to make further progress in negotiations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are pursuing commitments around fractionalisation for hourly paid lecturers, improvements to WAM and workload and the option to restart joint-honours programmes (among other issues).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The committee will keep you informed with further substantive updates about LOCAL issues soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>What you need to do now<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use the anonymous form in your email if you have information that could inform UCU negotiation over A&amp;H<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Attend our in-person Meeting:<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhy join UCU? Protecting your security, pay and conditions at Kent\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">16:15\u201417:30, Wednesday November 9th<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 (GLT3)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No booking required<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Join your local University &amp; College Union branch for a glass of wine and a meet-and-greet immediately after the virtual induction session for new staff. In this informal wine reception we\u2019ll be explaining the benefits of UCU membership, the protections you will receive immediately upon joining, and telling you about our successful recent campaigns to protect your job security and negotiate improvements in your pay and conditions. All are welcome and there is no need to book\u2014feel free to pop in for fifteen minutes for a glass of wine to meet us and your new colleagues!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Additional Opportunities<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Get training to become a UCU caseworker<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thurs 3rd Nov 1-4pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once you have completed such a training, by convention you can represent members of the branch in casework. You will continue to be supported by existing caseworkers.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoom link in email.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important Progress &#8211; LOCAL Negotiations are Continuing &nbsp; Because you voted to ballot for LOCAL industrial action if necessary, EG have now offered a \u2018commitment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2022\/10\/24\/local-negotiations-update-important\/\">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\/690"}],"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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}