With the return of students, the University is gearing to adopt a “Covid-aware” approach, in line with what the government are saying. This is basically shifting the emphasis from the University dealing with Covid safety to individuals taking responsibility themselves, by washing hands regularly, wearing a face-covering “when moving around the University” (strongly advised at least) and being regularly tested.…
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A farewell collection for One World staff
A farewell collection for One World staff Helen Abrahams Student Advice Manager Hi, a paypal pool has been created for anyone wishing to make a donation towards a gift for the 11 staff working at the now closed One World nursery. If you would like to make a donation, please do so by using this link: paypal.me/pools/c/8BJRkdGQSS. You do not need…
Pay Ballot “hotline” is now open – 0800 0 857 857
If you haven’t received a pay ballot at your home address, like this, then this is what you need to do: Ballot paper for pay ballot Call 0800 0 857 857, listen to the boring message and choose option 1. They should be able to update your details where necessary and they will post you a new ballot paper. Please…
Nursery Ballot Result
Thank you to every member who voted in our ballot over One World Nursery. 74.8% of members who voted were willing to take strike action, but unfortunately, the turnout, at 48.5%, was a handful of votes short of achieving the 50% we needed to give us a legal strike mandate. There’s lots we can say about this, starting with the…
Nursery Ballot is now closed
Thanks to everyone who voted in our postal ballot over One World Nursery. We are still yet to find anyone who thinks closing the Nursery makes sense and we are determined to find a way to keep it open, if the University is willing to discuss that, rather than maintain the fiction that £83,000 or £40,000 a year is a…
Nursery Ballot – just a few days to go
Our postal ballot over the plans to close One World Nursery closes at 10am on Thursday 17th June, so any remaining ballot papers would need to be posted by Tuesday, or very early on Wednesday morning, depending on the post box. So, if you haven’t yet voted, please do it as soon as you can and please vote YES in…
Nursery Postal Ballot is now live!
Our ballot over the closure of One World Nursery is happening now. If you work directly for the University, please look out for your ballot paper and return it as soon as possible. There’s more information in our June newsletter and we’ll be contacting members to check you have voted. Please let us know when you’ve posted your vote. If…
Emergency General Meeting 27th May 2021
Thanks to everyone who made it to our Emergency General Meeting yesterday. It was great to see so many people attend at such short notice and we think it shows the strength of feeling of our branch members in relation our dispute over One World Nursery. After three dispute meetings with the University’s management, we have tried to discuss the…
One World Nursery consultation
Thanks to everyone who responded to our consultation over industrial action to support the nursery workers at One World. Sorry for the multiple emails to ask you all to vote, but it was and still is important that we have an accurate assessment of the branch’s feeling over this issue. On a 54.6% turnout, 86.7% of members who voted were…
Consultative Vote – please make sure you vote!
Stop the Closure of One World Nursery! All our University-employed members – please vote in our consultative ballot. it’s important to get a decent turnout to accurately gauge how our members feel about the impending closure and how willing members are to fight it. Eleven jobs and a valuable service are resting on this. Please have you say and…