An experienced campaigner, a tough negotiator. Committed to bringing people together to fight for our rights.
Passionate about UCU and how it can help all of us working in Higher, Further, Adult, Prison, and Clinical education.
Endorsement of Maria for UCU Vice President
This branch endorses Maria Chondrogianni for Vice President and recommends that all members vote for her in the forthcoming UCU elections.
UCU University of Westminster branch
I have known Dr Maria Chondrogianni as a union colleague for many years. She is a committed and hardworking union activist at branch, regional and UK-wide level, with substantial local and national negotiating experience. I believe that Maria will make an excellent President.
Dr Elizabeth Lawrence, UCU National President 2014-16
I have known Maria since I was employed at the University of Westminster, where she has been chair of the UCU Westminster Coordinating Committee. Over the years, Maria has worked tirelessly and passionately, devoting herself to our members, to our union, with exemplary consistency, reliability, and integrity. Her expert knowledge and experience on negotiations, both local and national, on pay, contracts, workloads, and equalities matters has proved, time and time again, to be vast and invaluable … Multiple times Maria offered me and other members invaluable advice as part of case work. I am now employed at Leeds Beckett University, and her unwavering strength continues to be an inspiration for the work I do together with other dedicated organisers in my UCU branch.
Lara Rettondini, UCU Leeds Beckett University
I have worked closely over the last year with Maria on day to day UCU business and in preparing for the ballot and the recent industrial action. Maria lives and breaths the union … She is hugely experienced in matters concerning the union, thoroughly knowledgeable about all things to do with the needs of members in relation to their employers and is the person everyone turns to for advice. She acts with authority but always democratically … She would make a fantastic president of the UCU and I fully endorse her candidacy.
Prof. Sean Griffiths, UCU University of Westminster
I will be voting for Dr Maria Chandrogianni … Not only because I have worked with her for many years, but also because Maria, working at a Post 92 inner city university, understands the link between FE and HE in some of the most disadvantaged communities in our nations.
Peter Evans, LGBT+ FE NEC member, Vice Chair UCU Equality Committee
I am endorsing and voting for Maria Chandrogianni for UCU Vice President because I have worked with her in the Women’s Members Standing Committee and in other capacities in the UCU. My experience of working with Maria convinced me that she would be an excellent candidate for UCU VP in her work with all sectors of our union. Vote for Maria and see standards in all sectors of post 16 education and rights of members in UCU strengthened in the fight for better pay and closure of all pay gaps
Juliana Ojinnaka, Sheffield College, Chair of UCU Black Members Standing Committee
Maria is an excellent union activist who is member-focussed and committed to making UCU a truly member-led union. As a fellow member of HEC, I have seen Maria take the chair on a number of occasions, including when discussion has been heated. She has always carried out these duties impeccably, and always in a calm, considered and comradely manner. Maria takes and advocates principled positions and does so in the same manner, showing a clarity of thought and articulation while remaining respectful and non-condescending towards others who take a different view.
Grant Buttars, President UCU University of Edinburgh, member of NEC and UCU Scotland Executive
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