Election candidates
| Post & recommended voting order | Candidate Click name for election leaflet | |
|---|---|---|
| Trustees | 1 2 | Chris Jones Mike Barton |
| Vice President (FE) | 1 | Juliana Ojinnaka |
| North East HE | 1 2 3 | Matt Perry Mary Ellen Large Nick Emmel |
| London and East HE | 1 2 3 4 | Sean Wallis Maria Chondrogianni Roddy Slorach Paul Anderson |
| UK-elected FE | 1 2 | Dharminder Singh Chuhan Nina Doran |
| UK-elected HE | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Peta Bulmer Alan Barker Julie Hearn Richard Wild Roddy Slorach Maria Chondrogianni |
| Women | 1 2 | Julie Hearn Maria Chondrogianni |
| Migrant members | 1 | Khizer Saeed |
Posts
- VP & NEC Election Campaign Launch
Come to UCU Left’s election launch and hear from John McDonnell and some of our candidates on why you should vote for UCU Left candidates and what you can do to help the campaign. Call strikes now over USS and Four Fights Confusion surrounds the future of UCU’s two disputes in Higher Education. The General Secretary’s email to … - UCU Left report from Wednesday’s HEC meetingHEC must listen to members –Start the fight now on USS and Four Fights No decoupling of the disputes Escalating action now The Higher Education Committee (HEC) met on Wednesday 18 January to take decisions about further action in the two linked USS and Four Fights (casualiation, equality pay gaps, pay and workloads) disputes. The USS …
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- HE disputes – No Time To Delay: Escalating and indefinite action needed now.The re-ballot results over USS and the Four Fights are now public and the Branch Delegates Meetings have been held. They tell a consistent and determined story. UCU rightly chose to immediately reballot branches who narrowly missed the 50% anti-union threshold in the initial ballots before Xmas. In both sets of re-ballot results we see a …
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- NEC Elections 2022UCU Left calls on members to vote for candidates who are committed to fighting for Health and Safety, workers’ rights, equality, and protecting the planet. In the coming UCU NEC elections it is important all members vote. Low polls comfort only the employers, who use them as an argument for ignoring union reps. For a fighting union …
- The ‘Big Squeeze’ needs huge resistance.
As the new year begins the UK becomes the first country in Europe to record 150,000 deaths due to Covid 19 and one of only five countries globally to have hit this catastrophic milestone. Johnson and his cronies are determined to make working people pay for this pandemic, not only with their lives but with their … - Strikes and solidarity show that we can win
Thirteen of the fifteen FE colleges that balloted and/or took action have resolved their disputes. All have succeeded in getting more out of their employers than when they started. At my college, Capital City College Group (CCCG), members voted to accept the latest offer on an observation policy, pay and workload after taking ten days of strike …Continue reading “Strikes and solidarity show that we can win”
- Build the Strikes – All out 1-3 December – Build the Solidarity
UCU members in 58 universities are mobilising to take action over the Four Fights and Pensions. Across the sector, branches are organising strike meetings, general meetings, department meetings. Despite the pandemic, the union is shifting into gear at the grassroots. Alongside the physical pickets, union branches are learning how to do virtual pickets to ensure that …Continue reading “Build the Strikes – All out 1-3 December – Build the Solidarity”
- COP26: A devastating missed opportunity.
Despite all the pomp and ceremony and the promise of responding to the most significant climate and ecological crisis facing humankind, COP26, hosted by Johnson’s UK government, failed miserably. The People’s Summit taking place at the same time, organised by the COP26 Coalition, a coalition of campaign groups, NGOs, trade unions and faith groups, put the … - Action stations!
The first bout of action in our USS and Four Fights disputes has been announced. UCU has called three days of strike action on 1st, 2nd and 3rd December for 58 branches which achieved a mandate for action in the recent ballots. At the same time, 64 branches will start a work-to-contract. The Higher Education Committee … - Branches criticise the General Secretary’s strategy for the HE disputes
UCU Left report on the Branch Delegate Meetings, 12 November The two Branch Delegates’ Meetings (BDMs) took place on Friday. These had been called after the ballot results on USS and the Four Fights campaigns had been released and over 100 branches were represented. BDMs do not have constitutional status in UCU but emerged in the …Continue reading “Branches criticise the General Secretary’s strategy for the HE disputes”