Members, together, will get wins in spite of our leadership; we will take what is ours.

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Ballot papers for upcoming industrial action will be delivered to members across the country next week, and I will be organising and campaigning across my two branches for a YES vote, and encourage all members to do the same in their branches. Militant industrial action is the only strategy. (cont…)

colleagues.

We cannot allow them a single inch more than they’ve already got their grubby, hoodwinking mitts on.

Personally, I am done with being patient and playing nice. For the sake of all our members and their jobs, all our students, and all the sector, the gloves are now off. (cont…)

endlessly pandering to VCs in the hope for some scraps in return. Otherwise, their primary functions seems to be to behave as sycophants for the most deceptive and egotistical members of our senior leadership, and act in their own self-interest rather than fight to protect our sector and (cont…)

she needs to remember to keep her own house in check.

Many parts of our union are trying to address these concerns, but factions such as UCU Commons & Campaign for UCU Democracy seem happy with the status quo. In truth, their industrial strategy appears to amount to little more than (cont…)

she is capable of leading us into nationwide industrial action. To this end, she has launched a campaign to ‘expose’ UK Vice Chancellors, but her own leadership and treatment of her staff copies and employs some of the UK VCs’ very worst tactics. As her support among the membership wanes, (cont…)

motions from branches, and emails from lay members imploring her to resolve it. Her/UCU’s treatment of these workers, on whom the running of our union relies, is bringing disgrace upon UCU and the trade union movement as a whole. However, Jo simultaneously believes (publicly at least) that (cont…)

upcoming strike ballot, and the aforementioned wing of the union have been busy publicly undermining and attempting to scupper it.

Hanging over all of this is the ongoing Unite UCU dispute, and Jo Grady continues to ignore letters signed by hundreds of members, pressure from our NEC, (cont…)

“something something genuine concerns”…..?

Same folks who seem unbothered by the mistreatment of our UCU Staff…what do you expect? Undermining the ballot before it’s even started is a great strategy . . . . . . .

That would require a) humility, and b) morals . . . Neither of which these people have.

Sickening (but by now not surprising) behaviour from so-called fellow trade unionists. Solidarity, comrades.