Mark Pendleton

According to the joint statement and what negotiators are saying, aim is to do both, but first priority is restoring benefits.

It’s the athletes parade now, so tuning out for the next 536 hours

You forgot the most appropriate emoji…

Welcome to the branch secretary club!

Thanks for all your work Imogen, and best of luck for what’s next!

Glad to hear those Sheffield classes are coming in for some good use!

Great to see you there Caroline, and full agreement on that from me!

Lol. They didn’t even bother to send it to me this time.

Not that I’m aware of yet but I’m very interested in this. My current focus is on the data bros driving student number forecasting but I’m aware of similar orgs operating in lots of other areas too. Happy to chat to anyone about how we advance this work.

I think Sussex has to deal with the grotesquely named The Knowledge Partnership - different badge but the same approach from what I can tell

This was her first attempt at distracting me from the laptop this evening

Thanks Adam. I’ve at no stage vilified anyone, but simply asked a question about how members’ subs are being spent, in this case £400k worth. This may well be a justified payment, but from the response today members will never know. That is disappointing to say the least.

Absolutely! It’s very frustrating. The language used today sounded very much like an NDA is in play, but I really have no idea.

Accept that UCU comms is a mixed bag (and the website is a mess), but five tests for FE came out in early June, and HE shortly thereafter, so I think people were doing stuff. Could have been better communicated to members though for sure: ucu.org.uk/article/10781/Uni…

Or that over the year before, between 350k and 900k civilians were killed in “conventional” bombings of 26 major cities with about 13 million made homeless. In just one night in March more people in Tokyo died than in Hiroshima, and double the number killed in the Blitz

I’m not sure it is always constructive to flood people’s inboxes. Vicky has made a public commitment - it’s important to hold her to that, but let’s give her a little time to get things moving.

The President has said she is calling an NEC. That seems the quickest way to get one happening, rather than going through a formal requisition process. If needed, I would sign onto such a request though.

I have no evidence to dispute Jo’s account, but do find it hard to get to a 2/3 majority of the old NEC without at least some UCULeft votes... unfortunately votes aren’t recorded, so we’re back to a need for greater transparency!

I wasn’t on the NEC when the decision was made, so I can’t really comment on that NEC’s decision. But calls to contribute to the fighting fund have been in every UCU correspondence since last year, and members haven’t been, at least not in any real numbers

Nice thread - thanks! Tomoko Seto at Yonsei university has also been doing some academic research on this “scandal” and I’ve heard her give a couple of talks - will be interesting to see what she publishes about it.