Dear Member
Please vote for the UCU Left candidates in the NEC elections, which open today. Please vote for me as Vice-President and for Dr Deepa Driver as Honorary Treasurer.
Members in UCU, in all sectors, are very busy with supporting students, teaching, research and administration. Local union officers do vast amount of negotiations and casework, making a real difference for their work colleagues. UCU members in HE and in many parts of FE are also busy with industrial action over pay, pensions, pay equality issues, and working conditions.
With all these demands on our time, it’s important to find the time to breath, to take some time to think about the future, to see family and friends, to live our lives, and to vote in union elections.
It makes a difference who gets elected as National Officers and as NEC members.
All members, whether in further, higher, adult, or prison education, or retired have a vote in the elections for Vice-President and Honorary Treasurer.
It matters who is Vice President because the Vice-President will:
- Chair HE Sector Conferences
- Chair UCU’s Higher Education Committee
- Chair UCU’s team of Higher Education Negotiators
- Authorise local industrial action in HEIs
- Serve on UCU Committees, including Education, Equality, Recruitment, Organisation and Campaigns and Strategy and Finance
- Become President of UCU, after two-years as Vice President and President-Elect.
Every vote counts. We are all equal as UCU members in having one equal vote on who serves on our NEC and as our National Officers.
Best wishes
Dr Maria Chondrogianni
Maria Chondrogianni 