{"id":899,"date":"2019-02-01T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=899"},"modified":"2019-02-01T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:44:45","slug":"get-the-vote-out-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/02\/01\/get-the-vote-out-again\/","title":{"rendered":"GET THE VOTE OUT… AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University and College Union is yet again balloting its members over industrial action – not over pensions this time, but rather over casualisation, workload, pay inequality, and… well, pay. Union members are said to be scratching their heads as they walk around campus in a daze (that’s just the standard academic habitus, mind you), wondering whether they hadn’t already done one of these about six months ago. And indeed they did – but only a small handful of institutions reached the magic 50% figure imposed by recent trade union legislation, so there really wasn’t much of a solid platform for industrial action. This time, after some ill-tempered shouting (or should that be well-reasoned debate?) at a national union conference, UCU has gone for an aggregated ballot, which means that all branches are lumped together and the 50% threshold must be reached across the board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Opinion seems divided on whether this will succeed – on the one hand, the last, ill-fated ballot still achieved the highest turnout of any ballot over a national pay & conditions negotiation ever. On the other, there is nothing like the sense of unity and anger that surrounded the pensions dispute. Is this a case of people only voting when their own interests are at stake?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University and College Union is yet again balloting its members over industrial action – not over pensions this time, but rather over casualisation, workload, pay inequality, and… well, pay. 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