UCU Rising ballot results announced

Posted on 26 October 2022 by kingston

The results for the UCU Rising ballot have been announced and UCU nationally has smashed the anti-trade union threshold, with a turnout of 57.8% in the pay & conditions ballot, with 81.1% members voting in favour of strike action and 88.8% in favour of action short of a strike. This means we can take national action as a union over the issues this dispute is about. See the full results here

Thank you to all members who helped campaign to get the vote out at Kingston. We will be discussing as a branch what action we want to see and taking this to national branch delegates meeting 31st October.

Members can read General Secretary Jo Grady’s discussion document on how she thinks we should proceed in this dispute.

Four Fights Ballot results: KU UCU smashes threshold again and members vote strongly for further strike action

Posted on 16 April 2022 by kingston

In the recent ballot over renewing our mandate for strike action and action short of a strike (ASOS) in the Four Fights dispute, Kingston UCU once again smashed the anti-union threshold, with 59% of members voting. The results were also again emphatically in favour of continuing our industrial action, with 71% voting for strike action and 85% for action short of a strike.

In total 39 UCU branches will have a mandate for strike action running until October 2022 and 41 for ASOS, with the national vote closely matching our local one. The next steps are to take our branches’ views to the a special higher education sector conference on April 20th.

We are holding a branch meeting 19th April 11am online to gather Kingston UCU members opinions and ideas for the delegates from our branch to bring to the special conference. See inboxes for the Teams link.

Four Fights ballot result: Kingston staff vote for industrial action

Posted on 7 November 2021 by kingston

Our branch has achieved a phenomenal 60% turnout in the national Four Fights ballot over over unsafe workloads, casualisation, pay deflation, and the gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps. This was in spite of the incredibly short ballot period and issues with missing ballot papers, and is a huge increase on our turnout of 32% in the last ballot in 2019.

92% of members endorsed some form of action, with 70% voting in favour of strike action and 92% in favour of action short of strike.

We will be talking through what this means at our branch meeting Wednesday 10th November 1-3pm on Zoom, with our discussion feeding into a national delegates meeting before the UCU Higher Education Committee convenes on Friday 12th. Please come along if you can. Check inboxes for links.

Thank you to everyone who voted and all those departmental contacts and activists who helped out with the Get the Vote Out campaign