{"id":731,"date":"2023-04-04T09:48:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T08:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=731"},"modified":"2023-05-17T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T08:59:54","slug":"biggest-ever-ucu-meeting-in-kent-branch-history-passes-strike-ballot-motion-to-defend-ps-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/04\/04\/biggest-ever-ucu-meeting-in-kent-branch-history-passes-strike-ballot-motion-to-defend-ps-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest ever UCU meeting in Kent branch history passes \u2018strike ballot motion\u2019 to  defend PS jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>137 people attended the emergency general meeting on Tuesday 4 April to vote 96% in favour of this motion (see email for link).<\/li>\n<li>The motion defends professional services (PS) job security in light of the restructure. It also addresses other concerns, like the catastrophic effect on PS and academic workloads.<\/li>\n<li>The motion begins the process of launching an industrial action ballot.<\/li>\n<li>Your strong turnout today has already hugely strengthened your elected negotiators\u2019 leverage. There is significant scope for a good negotiated deal for members &#8211; if you stay organised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>137 people attended the emergency general meeting on Tuesday 4 April to vote 96% in favour of this motion (see email for link). The motion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/04\/04\/biggest-ever-ucu-meeting-in-kent-branch-history-passes-strike-ballot-motion-to-defend-ps-jobs\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53579,"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\/731"}],"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\/53579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}