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The first (in this academic year) General Meeting of Lancaster UCU took place yesterday. The meeting took place in the ironically named Welcome Centre Lecture Theatre 1 \u2013 cold, airless, almost windowless, accessible only via a building site and acoustically unfriendly to boot. The gathering was an modestly well\u2013attended affair \u2013 many readers may feel glad to see UCU with a blossoming, increased membership and an active and vibrant executive. Only two main items were on the agenda, both seemingly sponsored by the letter A. USS Pensions: aghast and aggrieved plus ua92: against and aspersions (as in casting). The branch also voted for a couple of motions to be tabled at UCU National Congress in Manchester later this year, one on the pension crisis and the other on campaigning alongside other disputes and campaigns.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first (in this academic year) General Meeting of Lancaster UCU took place yesterday. The meeting took place in the ironically named Welcome Centre Lecture Theatre 1 \u2013 cold, airless, almost windowless, accessible only via a building site and acoustically … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,38],"tags":[120,70],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-official-meetings","tag-issue-167","tag-ucu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-1Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":666,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/06\/21\/musical-ucu-chairs\/","url_meta":{"origin":123,"position":0},"title":"MUSICAL UCU CHAIRS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"June 21 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Following our report in subtext 178 on the rather confused goings-on at the Lancaster UCU AGM we can report that things appear to have been sorted. 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