皇家华人

鈥淲e reject the pitiful excuses given by overpaid decision-makers both within UCL and beyond. We value the work that you do and with that in mind I can honestly say quite happily that our grades and feedback can wait!鈥�

Second year BASc student

Please see the information below and听听to tell us whether you will be a boycott volunteer or, if you cannot, a Solidarity Pledger, donating half a day鈥檚 pay a week to support a boycotter.

1. Covering the costs of the Boycott

We are confident that we can stop UCL鈥檚 draconian plan to deduct 36.5 days of pay for everyone taking part in the MAB. But we need to ensure that people can afford to take part in the boycott, even in the worst case scenario.

That鈥檚 why we are setting up a听Solidarity Pledge scheme. Here鈥檚 how it works:

• We are asking you to pledge to donate half a day鈥檚 pay for each week of the marking period (currently 5.2 days of pay in total -听)

• For every 6 people who make the pledge, we can cover 1 person to join the MAB

• And those 7 people will share the cost of UCL鈥檚 ridiculous deductions between them, so that each person only loses 5.2 days of pay

In order to coordinate this, we need everyone who is taking part in the MAB or willing to donate to听fill out this form:听.

The information will be stored securely and not shared with anyone outside the branch Executive Committee. It will be used for the sole purpose of informing individual MABers that they are covered and expediting payments at the time that such payments are needed.

It is important to remember:

• Do not fill out the main UCL form.听Whatever management have said, the Government says听听until you have actually done so.

• These are听only pledges听at this stage. Last summer,听18 out of 20 MABs were concluded with no deductions听whatsoever, and this will be a central part of UCU鈥檚 national negotiations going forward, so we may not have to make any donations at all. But we also have to be clear-eyed about the threat.

• We have a听significant amount of money in our local strike fund听which we will also use to support people taking part in the MAB. But because of the scale of UCL鈥檚 deductions we need donations from members. If you don鈥檛 think you can pledge half a day鈥檚 pay per week for the whole MAB period, please donate as much as you can to the听.

Here鈥檚 a link again to the form:听听

Please fill it out. People will only take action if they know their colleagues are ready to stand with them!

2. Challenging UCL鈥檚 deductions scheme

We are continuing to challenge UCL鈥檚 scheme. We wrote a formal dispute letter to the Provost on Friday听which you can read here.

But we need you to help resist their plan:

• Join our Emergency General Meeting on Thursday April 27, 1-2 pm听where we will be discussing whether to go on strike in protest at 皇家华人鈥檚 plans

• Sign our听

• Remind colleagues that听not accepting work from MABing colleagues is covered by 'ordinary ASOS'听(no voluntary work) for which 皇家华人ill not deduct salary.

• Speak to your听local UCU rep听and听organise a departmental meeting to discuss strategy. We need to ensure maximum disruption while minimising people's exposure and protecting our most vulnerable colleagues. Think about where the marking and assessment 鈥榗hoke points鈥� are at a local level, and ask your colleagues not to cover for other people, or take on other people鈥檚 work.

• Organise an听听to your Head of Department听in support of the boycott (HoDs are already coming under huge pressure to identify potential MAB participants [basically a blacklist] and organise strike-breaking).听听available听.

• Organise a meeting with students听to discuss the boycott. We want to end this boycott by winning the dispute 鈥� for our sake but also for theirs.

Here鈥檚 a听.

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Please get in touch with us by replying to this email if you have any other questions.

UCL UCU Executive Committee

@ucl_ucu