UCU GS @DrJoGrady has emailed members about negotiations in the #FourFights dispute. Here is the text of the email and a short summary thread #UCUstrike #UCUstrikesback
ucu.org.uk/article/10661/…
UCU negotiators are meeting the employer representative UCEA today for further talks - but we need to see significantly more movement than employers have promised so far.
UCU negotiators have set out clear, reasonable targets for UCEA to improve the offer they made in January:
🔘Each institution needs time-bound, public action plans/agreements on workload, equality and job security
🔘Action plans should be implemented in collaboration with unions
On workload, institutions need accurate, realistic, comprehensive workload models that reflect the number of hours staff actually work.
On casualisation, we need firmer commitments on:
🔘Ending zero hours contracts
🔘Converting staff from fixed-term to secure contracts
🔘Converting hourly paid staff to fractional contracts.
On top of this, institutions need to provide better data than they currently do via @ukhesa to monitor progress and illustrate any ongoing problems regarding equality pay gaps, overwork, and precarious employment.
Our demands are completely reasonable and far from unaffordable - it is the employers who are at fault for continuing this dispute.
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