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🚨Important update on @ucu fighting fund!🚨
An email has gone to branches detailing changes to the @ucu FF. Unfortunately it still contains errors & doesn't reflect what has been voted for by NEC. An all member email has gone out today which also looks to be incorrect 🧵
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An email has gone to branches detailing changes to the @ucu FF. Unfortunately it still contains errors & doesn't reflect what has been voted for by NEC. An all member email has gone out today which also looks to be incorrect 🧵
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Before addressing this, pls sign & share this open letter detailing the NEC motion on extending the fighting fund. We need this implementing *now*. The MAB has started & members need to know exactly what they can claim for:
bit.ly/UCUFF2023
#UCUrising
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bit.ly/UCUFF2023
#UCUrising
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The scheme proposed in the latest HQ email is ambiguous but seems to suggest that members can now claim for:
▶️20 days *in total* for strike/MAB deductions (this is against policy)
▶️But you can only claim for MAB if you're facing 100% deductions (this is against policy)
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▶️20 days *in total* for strike/MAB deductions (this is against policy)
▶️But you can only claim for MAB if you're facing 100% deductions (this is against policy)
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For anyone confused about how #ourUCU came out of #UCU2018, some quick background information: Two motions (10 & 11, below), which were critical of the General Secretary's part in the #USSstrike, were passed by branches. They were submitted to Congress & ruled onto the agenda. 1/ 
At #UCU2018 delegates from the two branches @KCL_UCU & @ExeterUCU were pressured to withdraw these motions. See their accounts here: kcl.ac.uk/unions/ucu/KCL… and exeterucu.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/exe… 2/
This was due to pressure from the local @unitetheunion branch, which represents @UCU staff, including Sally Hunt. The General Secretary is the most senior elected representative in UCU, but they argued that because she is an employee, #UCU2018 could not discuss motions 10 & 11 /3
30 min suspension of #UCU18 is up. National Head of Democratic Services (staff member) has come back (not elected President) to tell us staff not willing to come back in yet: we've been told Congress cannot continue. Bedlam now as ppl work out if absent chair can be challenged >>
Being argued rules allow for #UCU2018 Congress2continue in these circs but mics are off. Impossible to hear properly. Also being proposed can't have proper Congress now, so could have a discussion about what's going on instead. Counterargument "Go Congress or go home" 🤦🏻♀️
Staff working at venue have confirmed mics can't be turned on as Unite walkout means the ppl they've been working with aren't wiling to return. Delegates attempting human mic. Discussing continuing #UCU2018 Congress vs discussion way fwd noting democratic issue + quorum (150)
