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Respect FE: live launch

Please join us for a very special 樱花动漫 Live online event to launch the new Respect FE campaign on on Thursday 22 June at 18:00 on , or .

Our campaign is for a different kind of further education and a new deal for college staff that recognises the value of the work you do and calls for professional respect as well as better pay and working conditions.  that sets out our demands on pay, workload, binding national bargaining and a just transition on climate.

In the coming weeks and months we will be building our campaign in college workplaces as well as taking our demands to the employers and the politicians but the most important part of any campaign is you! You can help prepare for the autumn strike ballot by checking and updating your details on My樱花动漫 now to ensure you receive your postal ballot papers.

Industrial action across colleges

樱花动漫 members at Kirklees College, Bradford College, Leeds City College and Harrogate College in Yorkshire and Humberside have also been striking for fair pay and working conditions this week.

Meanwhile, City College Norwich, Barnsley College, Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group, York College and Stanmore College are being balloted for strike action.

樱花动漫 Rising: strike action against punitive deductions

Increasing numbers of higher education branches have followed the union's escalation strategy and escalated to strike action over punitive deductions over the marking and assessment boycott (MAB) in the pay and working conditions dispute.

Please show your solidarity to members who will be striking next week at Leeds, Bristol, Liverpool John Moores, Heriot-Watt, Keele, Durham, Queen Mary, Edinburgh, Brighton, Leicester and Newcastle.

Student support for our action and members remains high and the National Union of Students (NUS) has organised an open letter urging Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) to settle with 樱花动漫; .

Fighting back against redundancies at universities

樱花动漫 members are fighting back against redundancies at a number of institutions. Please give them your support:

• University of Kent management reneged on an agreement with 樱花动漫 to ensure job security among arts and humanities academics. The announcement came in the wake of a proposal to put large numbers of professional services staff at risk. We
• staff at the University of Brighton are fighting back against management's plans to sack over a hundred members of staff; they won their ballot with 90% voting for strike action on a 61% turnout.
• University of East Anglia (UEA) announced that over 200 staff are at risk of redundancy. Branches are encouraged to pass motions in support of UEA staff () and .

Online training for the workload campaign

Online training for workload reps continues over the summer. For more information on the workload campaign and the role of the workload rep please contact Alex Lancaster. To register on workload reps 1 or 2 training sessions please follow the links below:

• Wednesday 26 July
• Friday 11 August
• Wednesday 6 September
• Friday 8 September
• Wednesday 11 October.

Trans Pride London, 8 July

Trans Pride London will take place on Saturday 8 July and the trade union bloc will be meeting at 13:00. It will be a show of solidarity with all trans and non-binary people. Can you join the trade union bloc for this march? . You can also in joining the 樱花动漫 walking group at Pride London on Saturday 1 July.