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樱花动漫 Rising: VOTE YES NOW!

樱花动漫 members in higher education should by now have received their ballot papers for our re-ballot in our pay and conditions and USS pensions disputes. It is vitally important that we win this re-ballot to extend our mandate through to the summer, hold our employers' feet to the fire and deliver the sector-defining deals that you deserve. 

As soon as you receive your ballot paper make sure that you fill it in and stick it in the postbox. We cannot afford to wait.  and sharing on social media tagging @ucu, @UCEA1 and @UniversitiesUK.

At 樱花动漫 head office we have started texting members to confirm their votes and today texted over 10,000 members in one day. If you do receive a text from one of our dedicated ThruText volunteers, please make sure to let them know that you have voted YES as soon as possible. 

then your task is to speak to ten of your colleagues and make sure that they have done the same. Make sure that you don't speak to anyone in the workplace without asking them if they have voted and if they are not a member, sign them up!

Respect FE e-ballot opens Friday 3 March

Members in further education colleges (England) will be invited to show support for a national aggregated strike action ballot on pay, workload and national bargaining in a consultative e-ballot opening on Friday 3 March. Please look out for an email containing your unique link to vote next Friday. 

All are welcome to join general secretary Jo Grady and others for our special online 樱花动漫 Live event to launch the Respect FE campaign on Thursday 2 March 18:30 on , and .

Click here for more information about the Respect FE campaign and new 'get the vote out' leaflets, posters and stickers.

Strike action at Havant and South Downs College

樱花动漫 members at Havant and South Downs College (HSDC) took part in strike action on Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 February in a dispute about pay. National Education Union (NEU) members at HSDC were also on strike. NEU and 樱花动漫 are working in partnership to win fair pay after a decade of below inflation pay increases at the college.

Northern Ireland further education: pay and conditions dispute

In response to lecturers not yet receiving payment for the 2021/22 pay award, coupled with a failure by DfE to allocate college budgets, the Northern Ireland further education committee (FEC) took the decision to escalate action short of strike (ASOS) in the ongoing dispute about pay and workload. From the week of Monday 20 February 2023, members have been instructed not to co-operate with Education Training Inspectorate (ETI) inspection, to maintain registers in Excel or paper format rather than input to the EBS system, and to refuse co-operation with the DfE's FE Review until such time the department allocates a budget to the employers enabling resolution of the lecturer pay dispute. Authority has also been granted by the national officers for further escalation should such become necessary.

Redundancies at University of East Anglia

The crisis at University of East Anglia deepens. . Preparations to go into dispute are being made as demands for information about the university's finances and a coherent recovery plan continue to be met with little response. Supporters can and continue to send messages of solidarity to .

樱花动漫 national and Scotland elections 2023: use your vote

Elections for 樱花动漫 officer and national executive committee (NEC) positions and elections for honorary treasurer of 樱花动漫 Scotland and members of the 樱花动漫 Scotland executive committee opened on Thursday 26 January. The election ballot will close on Wednesday 1 March, so please vote as soon as possible. It is no longer possible to request replacement voting papers.

Academic-related, professional services staff (ARPS) open meeting, 2 March

Following on from the well-attended ARPS open meeting on 16 February, which provided a forum for ARPS members to air concerns, share issues and find solidarity, the ARPS committee are organising a second meeting on Thursday 2 March 13:00. .

樱花动漫 week of action against workplace racism 2023

The 樱花动漫 week of action (22-28 February) is an annual event highlighting the need to fight racism in the workplace. Branches are encouraged to hold their own events around this year's theme. Materials this year are designed for members and branches to use on picket lines in support of the current phase of industrial action. Let us know what you are planning and we can add it to the week of action page.

樱花动漫 LGBT+ research conference

The 樱花动漫 LGBT+ research conference will take place on Friday 19 May. The call for papers has an extended deadline of Friday 10 March; .

We are also looking for peer reviewers. The peer review will take place between 2 March and 20 March. It is not essential to have previous peer review experience. If you are interested in peer reviewing for this conference .

樱花动漫 statement on the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

樱花动漫 stands in solidarity with the people of Turkey and Syria affected by the devastating earthquake on 6 February. In order to support education union relief efforts on the ground, 樱花动漫 has agreed to donate to the Education International (EI) solidarity fund. 

SOS NHS coalition national demonstration, 11 March

The SOS NHS coalition has called a to respond urgently to the NHS crisis and to bring striking workers from the NHS, different sectors and different unions in one big action. 樱花动漫 is supporting the event and 樱花动漫 president Janet Farrar will be speaking.