UCU Left NEC members welcome today’s decision by the President to call an emergency NEC to review the recently announced levy.
We want to see evidence of the union’s current financial position and we want an explanation from the General Secretary as to why this levy was actioned on 26 June without notice or further reference to the NEC. We will question the information previously provided by the union’s officers that UCU rules do not allow a levy to be graduated according to income or to be targeted at certain groups of members, and we want to know why actioning the levy was not on the agenda of NEC meeting of 19 June.