{"id":848,"date":"2023-11-09T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=848"},"modified":"2023-11-17T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T10:58:52","slug":"local-asos-starts-today-thursday-9-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/11\/09\/local-asos-starts-today-thursday-9-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Local ASOS starts today (Thursday 9 November)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1O5PpQ5ssgCouKb9jaR80DwxgiMMKTavFdJ9O48jsAQU%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&amp;data=05%7C01%7CC.Hall-515%40kent.ac.uk%7C72108924df0e49cfe3e508dbe0f9f3dc%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638351136379762453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=aOeLJRoukgyKg9WtjZCe4SiBekgVyRwZ4KeGcekIZiw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u2018Working to contract\u2019<\/a> commences at Kent today (Thursday 9th November), in response to elements of Kent 2030 and to senior management\u2019s demand that virtually every module in the university be redesigned, to fit <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1wPtCIo0lwbRBbZCK2oN_5B6SOvFlMamnXDks_RZcjPY%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&amp;data=05%7C01%7CC.Hall-515%40kent.ac.uk%7C72108924df0e49cfe3e508dbe0f9f3dc%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638351136379762453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=DTBERe1aYF3%2F7MRqJ0bRYxWUPDPU5ArknTjUPCRQw%2Bo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\">their financially unproven proposal for the academic year<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Working to contract represents staff formally withdrawing their goodwill from senior management. Stop volunteering \u2013 stop overworking: senior management do not deserve it while they fail to meaningfully engage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucu.org.uk%2Fworking-to-contract&amp;data=05%7C01%7CC.Hall-515%40kent.ac.uk%7C72108924df0e49cfe3e508dbe0f9f3dc%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638351136379762453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=1UH8RwdValWlSmRaZCZN30wEgKnFibLfz4l%2Flif5JLw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Click for an introduction to this kind of \u2018Action Short of a Strike\u2019<\/a> (ASOS) (references to the national dispute, marking &amp; assessment boycotts and full strike action do not currently apply to this local dispute, which is legally and politically separate.)<\/li>\n<li>Note \u201cIf the ASOS called consists solely of \u2018working to contract\u2019 [as in this case], then an employer cannot impose pay deductions when you are fulfilling your contract.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You may wish to set <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1r08VnFEb85rKSFyLpOL9k_6N1BttPgy5QHNhl2SmY-0%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&amp;data=05%7C01%7CC.Hall-515%40kent.ac.uk%7C72108924df0e49cfe3e508dbe0f9f3dc%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638351136379762453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GFdZXFxI5WwYTEeFatWIHeNepH2tgkFFT6Bn7MtXMFA%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\">an auto-reply along these lines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Working to contract\u2019 commences at Kent today (Thursday 9th November), in response to elements of Kent 2030 and to senior management\u2019s demand that virtually every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/11\/09\/local-asos-starts-today-thursday-9-november\/\">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\/848"}],"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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}