*reminder* General Meeting, Thu 27 Jan, 1-2pm – next steps for USS & Four Fights + motions

Colleagues should have read the General Secretary’s email on Friday. Your Executive Committee met yesterday and agreed that the motions below (Appendix 1) should be put to our General Meeting for debate.

The first motion is a confirmation of our branch policy that both disputes should be prosecuted concurrently, but recognising that should this happen, we will only be taking lawful strike action over the Four Fights demands (pay, workload, casualisation and inequality).

It is worth noting that across London alone, 18 university branches have legal strike mandates on either Pay (17) or USS (8). The National Union of Students (NUS) has called a national demonstration on 2 March 2022 calling for a New Vision for Education.

The second motion adds our branch’s name to the calling of a Special Higher Education Sector Conference.

Members are invited to submit amendments to ucu@ucl.ac.uk by Thursday 27 at 10am for circulation in the morning and consideration in the meeting.

UCL UCU Executive Committee