Askham Bryan Branch UCU

I am emailing in support of your actions against the horrendous proposals made by Chesterfield College.

All the best for your strike,

kind regards

Helen Burley, Chair, Askham Bryan Branch UCU

Helen

UCU Member

Dear Colleague

I support your planned strike action on Tuesday 29th May.at Chesterfield College.

Regards

Nasim Hasnie

UCU Member

UCU Branch at Leeds Metropolitan University

Good luck with the strike on Tuesday.

Solidarity with you and your colleagues on the day from the UCU Branch at Leeds Metropolitan University

London Metropolitan University UCU (Chair) UCU National Executive Committee

Dear colleagues,

I wish to send solidarity greetings on behalf of myself and London Metropolitan University UCU to you in your struggle with your management.

The attempt to cut your pay and impose worse terms and conditions upon you is an outrage that the whole union has to stand firm against. Your decision to take strike action, starting next Tuesday, to signal to your management that you will resist them is an inspiration to us all. Particularly as it is clear many other college (and university) principles are looking to see the outcome of your fight as they contemplate similar attacks on their own staff.

As unfortunate veterans of many such attempted management attacks at London Met we know both how difficult and how essential your fight is, and as such we pledge to do everything in our power to provide you with solidarity. Your fight truly is a 'local dispute of national significance' and as such you will have the steadfast support of London Met UCU and myself as a member of the UCU National Executive.

In solidarity

Mark...

Mark Campbell

London Metropolitan University UCU (Chair) UCU National Executive Committee

UCU Branch Secretary, Regent Branch, University of Westminster

Solidarity from UCU at the University of Westminster, and good luck on Tuesday.

Yours

John Baker

UCU Branch Secretary, Regent Branch, University of Westminster

Cambridge Regional College UCU

Dear Colleagues

Please pass on this message on behalf of  our Branch -

Solidarity & Support for your action on

29^th May against the attacks on your pay & conditions

From Cambridge Regional College Branch

Unity Is Strength !

Regards

Pete Monaghan

Cambridge Regional College

UCU Branch

Daniel Pearce

Hello

I support your strike against the proposed pay cuts.

Thanks

Daniel Pearce

UCU Joint Branch Secretary , Barnsley College

The proposed cuts at Chesterfield are disgusting and yet another example of college management using the austerity measures as a convenient excuse for cutting pay.

You’ll be aware - and indeed you were supportive of- our action in Barnsley last year re redundancies, and so I would like to return that solidarity by wishing you and your members good luck with your action on May 29.

I realise how busy you will be but please let our branch know how things go and if and when further action takes place.

I won’t be able to make the picket line but I’ll be there in spirit.

In solidarity,

Lee Short

UCU Joint Branch Secretary

Pheeba Baxendale

Hi  There,

I completely support you regarding the pay cut. I think it is outrageous what your college is doing. It is a major pay cut on your wages and it needs to be stopped.

Good luck and keep up the fight!!

Pheeba Baxendale

UCU University of Hertfordshire

UCU University of Hertfordshire

Please convey this message of support to all at Chesterfield and wish them luck in their fight against this entirely unreasonable and unwarranted attack on the part of the employers.

In solidarity

Jon Berry (pc)

Jon Berry

Senior Lecturer

UCU Branch Secretary

University of Hertfordshire

Sheffield College UCU

Sheffield College UCU

As Chair of Sheffield College UCU, can i send our solidarity in your action against the attacks introduced by your vicious management.

 I intend to visit your picket line next week and will encourage others here to join me.

 cheers

 Andy smith

Newton Rigg College Penrith.

Hello

I just read the background to your decision to strike and would like to offer the full support of our branch here at Newton Rigg College Penrith.

I am copying in my Chairperson Helen Burley at Askham Bryan College York who I'm sure will also send a letter of support.

Good luck with your strike and if you'd like me to send a letter condemning the management's action I'll be happy to do so.

Regards

Tony Myler

Branch Secretary

Unite

I was horrified to read the details just now of the totally unacceptable situation at Chesterfield College in respect of pay cuts.
On behalf of the Unite members at Steria, Chesterfield I should like to wish you support with your union's fight against these cuts.   We hope you succeed in reducing the severity of the current proposals.
Bill Eyre
Accredited Workplace Representative
Unite

York College UCU

I would like to convey to you the wholehearted support of York College UCU in your fight against the attacks your members are facing. I think all branches need to know the details of what your management are trying to achieve, and the national union has to take on the responsibility for building widespread solidarity.

Please send us any leaflets and collection sheets that will help us bring home to our members the kind of struggle we may well face here. If you are holding a rally we can probably send along a speaker and the banner, and if you are in this area we will help do a bucket collection round staff rooms.

Good luck and best wishes from all here at York.

In solidarity, John westmoreland

Senior Lecturer in Business

Good Luck with your struggle. I have  worked with private contractors and those proposals could be the first step, whose final one is their type of conditions where as a Tutor I ended up earning less in money terms than as and FE Lecturer 13 years earlier.

Regards,

Hugh (Meyer)

Senior Lecturer in Business

Barnsley UCU

The proposed cuts at Chesterfield are disgusting and yet another example of college management using the austerity measures as a convenient excuse for cutting pay.

You’ll be aware - and indeed you were supportive of- our action in Barnsley last year re redundancies, and so I would like to return that solidarity by wishing you and your members good luck with your action on May 29.

I realise how busy you will be but please let our branch know how things go and if and when further action takes place.

I won’t be able to make the picket line but I’ll be there in spirit.

In solidarity,

Lee Short

UCU Joint Branch

Glasgow University and NEC

Congratulations on an excellent ballot result and the determination of members at Chersterfield to fight against pay cuts and threats to jobs and to education itself. 

I would like to send a message of support and wish you success for your industrial action on Tuesday and in winning your campaign.  Chesterfield College UCU and all other branches fighting cuts are doing it for all of us and showing management at Chesterfield and elsewhere that we will fight back.  Otherwise all colleges and universities will be cutting pay and increasing workloads.

Marion Hersh, Glasgow University and NEC

Fraternal greetings from Warwick UCU

Fraternal greetings from Warwick UCU 

 Extremely aggressive management to say the least.

Solidarity from Leeds Met UCU

Solidarity from Leeds Met UCU - these attacks are an outrage.
Best,
Paul

Emergency UCU Update

Emergency UCU Update…..

On Wednesday afternoon the college management put forward their new proposals on pay.

They plan to…

1. Impose a 1% PAY CUT on all staff who are on or above point 18 of the salary scale. (This means the vast majority of lecturing staff)

2. Impose a two year pay freeze on all staff.

3.  Impose Performance Related Pay  by only allowing progression above point 32 to lecturers who get a grade 1 or 2 in lesson observations and take on a “junior management role”.

4.  All three of the above would remove Chesterfield College from nationally negotiated pay and conditions. Whatever you might think of Chesterfield College in the past, they have always implemented nationally agreed pay and conditions.

5.  They are also still proposing to cut the rate of pay for hourly paid lecturers by up to 15.3%.

6.  What “concession” is being offered to sweeten the pill? Very generously the college is stating that it intends to add one additional “directed day’s” annual leave. 

Your UCU negotiators, along with the representatives of the other academic staff unions at the meeting, have rejected the college’s proposals.

COME along to the

Emergency UCU Branch Meeting, this Thursday from 4 pm in the Recital Room, Infirmary Road.

Agenda:

Consideration of management pay proposals (above)

Decision on Strike Action Tuesday May 29th