The ballot packs from Civica (CEC) went into the post yesterday and some will already have been delivered. You should also be receiving your #ucuRising campaign material, including a poster in the post.
You will receive two ballot papers in one envelope and with one return envelope for both ballots. Please complete and return your ballots at the earliest opportunity.
Our key demands are
- a fair pay rise
- meaningful commitment to tackle casualisation
- meaningful agreement on workloads
- action on equality pay gaps
- restoration of pension benefits
- moderately prudent evidence based USS pension fund valuations in future
The full Higher Education Joint Unions’ Claim for 2022/23 can be found at https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/12528/HE-unions-claim-2022-23/pdf/TUJNCHESclaim202223FINAL.pdf
Deliveries may be delayed by industrial action being undertaken by CWU on Thursday and Friday. If your ballot has not arrived yet, please be patient. We need supportive of our posties #StandByYourPost.
Can we ask that that you take a selfie when posting your ballot, with your poster in shot if possible, and post online with the hashtag of #UCUrising and tag/mention HWUCU branch on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/UCUHWU/ or Twitter at https://twitter.com/UCU_HWUBranch. If you don’t have social media email your photos to John at the local branch committee.
No problem if your paws are camera shy, please just post your ballot and let our GTVO team know that you have voted when they get in touch. This is a big national aggregated ballot this time so there may be communications from both the local branch and UCU HQ but we will do our best to avoid asking you again once you have already notified that you have voted.
This is a great time to get involved with union activity at branch level. If you would like to help spread the word please contact Joss at the local branch committee.