{"id":751,"date":"2023-05-18T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=751"},"modified":"2023-05-18T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:56:37","slug":"arts-and-humanities-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/05\/18\/arts-and-humanities-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts and Humanities update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">Kent UCU negotiators have continued to engage with senior management about the possibility of a \u201cmass selection process for redeployment\u201d in Arts &amp; Humanities (A&amp;H).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">Negotiators have made it clear to senior management that the mass selection process would be unfair, unworkable and needlessly escalatory. Such a process would not yield the \u201ccost savings\u201d senior management talk about either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">Letters initiating mass selection processes for redeployment have not been sent at the time of writing, but no agreement has been reached on this matter between senior management and UCU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">Negotiators are confident that this situation <i>could<\/i>\u00a0be resolved through continued talks and transparent information sharing. We very much hope that senior management shares this commitment to continuing dialogue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">Any further updates will be circulated as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent UCU negotiators have continued to engage with senior management about the possibility of a \u201cmass selection process for redeployment\u201d in Arts &amp; Humanities (A&amp;H).\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/05\/18\/arts-and-humanities-update\/\">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\/751"}],"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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}