UK-Wide Strike Meeting
6pm Monday 21st February 2022
This coming Monday, branches involved in the Four Fights will join those already on strike over USS.
Meanwhile, there is excellent news from City University of London, where Unison members are due to join the UCU on strike on Monday. Management offered security guards a bonus to work on the 21st and 22nd. After staff rejected the bribe, City announced on Thursday that it will close on both days.
We are pleased to confirm that a City Unison rep will join the speakers at our UK-wide online strike meeting next Monday evening. We also hope to hear from the students who have now occupied four University of Sheffield buildings in solidarity with us.
This meeting is the place to be for UCU strikers, activists and students and others who want to build support for our action.
We need that action to be effective, well supported and successful. This event provides a forum to take stock, and to address important debates. How do we fight threatened pay deductions over ASOS? In the USS dispute, the employers will soon decide whether or not to accept the UCU proposals. Do members have enough say on industrial action strategy? How best to strengthen links between activists and branches? How best to win?
Opening speakers:
- Vicky Blake (UCU President)
- Tara Povey (Goldsmiths UCU)
- Mike Rosen (author/Goldsmiths UCU)
- Juliana Ojinnaka (Chair UCU Black Members Committee)
- Cecilia Wee (RCA UCU)
- Jess Edwards (NEC, National Education Union)
- Jordy Lea (City Uni of London Unison rep)
Please note that the Corona Contract network also has an important meeting next Wednesday 23 February at 6pm, at which striking branches will discuss reports and vote on proposals for the next stage of the dispute. We hope that you can also promote and attend this event.
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