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We are Ready to Picket on Wednesday
 We have everything in place to PICKET on Wednesday 1st December. Information on the GSA UCU Picket line Top tips to make the strike effective Top tips for members with management responsibility, Take a look at our new linktr.ee/gsaucu PICKET – We have everything in place to PICKET on Wednesday 1st December. We will be there from 8:30 am till 1 pm. Meet outside the Reid Building, and we will send a team to Stow. What we need you to do: Wear a mask, Maintain social distance, Do a Lateral Flow Test before attending the picket line. Get yours here: https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests Anyone with Covid-19 symptoms should not attend and should self-isolate and book a PCR test, Dress for the weather. What we will do:Collect names and phone numbers for contact tracing purposes, Have hand sanitiser available, Inform UCU Scotland who will inform Police Scotland that we will be picketing, A risk assessment. It will be great to see as many of you as possible on Wednesday! If you can’t make it in person: there will be a ‘virtual picket’ at 10 am on Zoom; details to follow. Join the Picket – Wednesday 1st December, 8:30 am till 1 pm. If you don’t feel able to participate in the picket, then strike. If you don’t feel able to strike, then take Action Short of Strike. Top tips Highest impact: Join the picket line on Wednesday the 1st, Simple – Don’t inform your manager of your intentions regarding the strike, More challenging – Don’t anticipate the action by rescheduling teaching, Most important – Look after yourself, Support students – Let them know why you are going on strike; our working conditions are their learning conditions. When it is over – If your line manager asks if you took strike action, then answer truthfully, What Next – ASOS. More details to follow. Top tips if you have management responsibility. Highest impact – Go on strike yourself, facilitate your colleagues by supporting the action, and join the picket line, Simple – Don’t ask colleagues if they intend to strike, More Challenging – Don’t anticipate members striking action by putting in mitigation before the action, Most Important – Don’t add workload to yourself or non-members! The strike is about workload. Look after yourself and your colleagues, Support students – let them know why we are on strike; our working conditions are their learning conditions., When it is over – don’t ask staff to reschedule activity affected by the strike unless you can remove something else from their work plan to make room for it, What next – ASOS. More details to follow. Take a look at our new linktr.ee with links to useful resources for the strike and ASOS GSAUCU Committee https://linktr.ee/gsaucu https://www.gsa-ucu.org.uk/ twitter.com/gsaucu |
We have everything in place to PICKET on Wednesday 1st December. Information on the GSA UCU Picket line Top tips to make the strike effective Top tips for members with management responsibility, Take a look at our new linktr.ee/gsaucu PICKET – We have everything in place to PICKET on Wednesday 1st December. We will be there from 8:30 am till 1 pm. Meet outside the Reid Building, and we will send a team to Stow. What we need you to do: Wear a mask, Maintain social distance, Do a Lateral Flow Test before attending the picket line. Get yours here: https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests Anyone with Covid-19 symptoms should not attend and should self-isolate and book a PCR test, Dress for the weather. What we will do:Collect names and phone numbers for contact tracing purposes, Have hand sanitiser available, Inform UCU Scotland who will inform Police Scotland that we will be picketing, A risk assessment. It will be great to see as many of you as possible on Wednesday! If you can’t make it in person: there will be a ‘virtual picket’ at 10 am on Zoom; details to follow. Join the Picket – Wednesday 1st December, 8:30 am till 1 pm. If you don’t feel able to participate in the picket, then strike. If you don’t feel able to strike, then take Action Short of Strike. Top tips Highest impact: Join the picket line on Wednesday the 1st, Simple – Don’t inform your manager of your intentions regarding the strike, More challenging – Don’t anticipate the action by rescheduling teaching, Most important – Look after yourself, Support students – Let them know why you are going on strike; our working conditions are their learning conditions. When it is over – If your line manager asks if you took strike action, then answer truthfully, What Next – ASOS. More details to follow. Top tips if you have management responsibility. Highest impact – Go on strike yourself, facilitate your colleagues by supporting the action, and join the picket line, Simple – Don’t ask colleagues if they intend to strike, More Challenging – Don’t anticipate members striking action by putting in mitigation before the action, Most Important – Don’t add workload to yourself or non-members! The strike is about workload. Look after yourself and your colleagues, Support students – let them know why we are on strike; our working conditions are their learning conditions., When it is over – don’t ask staff to reschedule activity affected by the strike unless you can remove something else from their work plan to make room for it, What next – ASOS. More details to follow. Take a look at our new linktr.ee with links to useful resources for the strike and ASOS GSAUCU Committee https://linktr.ee/gsaucu https://www.gsa-ucu.org.uk/ twitter.com/gsaucu |
We have everything in place to PICKET on Wednesday 1st December. Information on the GSA UCU Picket line Top tips to make the strike effective Top tips for members with management responsibility, Take a look at our new linktr.ee/gsaucu PICKET – We have everything in place to PICKET on Wednesday 1st December. We will be there from 8:30 am till 1 pm. Meet outside the Reid Building, and we will send a team to Stow. What we need you to do: Wear a mask, Maintain social distance, Do a Lateral Flow Test before attending the picket line. Get yours here: https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests Anyone with Covid-19 symptoms should not attend and should self-isolate and book a PCR test, Dress for the weather. What we will do:Collect names and phone numbers for contact tracing purposes, Have hand sanitiser available, Inform UCU Scotland who will inform Police Scotland that we will be picketing, A risk assessment. It will be great to see as many of you as possible on Wednesday! If you can’t make it in person: there will be a ‘virtual picket’ at 10 am on Zoom; details to follow. Join the Picket – Wednesday 1st December, 8:30 am till 1 pm. If you don’t feel able to participate in the picket, then strike. If you don’t feel able to strike, then take Action Short of Strike. Top tips Highest impact: Join the picket line on Wednesday the 1st, Simple – Don’t inform your manager of your intentions regarding the strike, More challenging – Don’t anticipate the action by rescheduling teaching, Most important – Look after yourself, Support students – Let them know why you are going on strike; our working conditions are their learning conditions. When it is over – If your line manager asks if you took strike action, then answer truthfully, What Next – ASOS. More details to follow. Top tips if you have management responsibility. Highest impact – Go on strike yourself, facilitate your colleagues by supporting the action, and join the picket line, Simple – Don’t ask colleagues if they intend to strike, More Challenging – Don’t anticipate members striking action by putting in mitigation before the action, Most Important – Don’t add workload to yourself or non-members! The strike is about workload. Look after yourself and your colleagues, Support students – let them know why we are on strike; our working conditions are their learning conditions., When it is over – don’t ask staff to reschedule activity affected by the strike unless you can remove something else from their work plan to make room for it, What next – ASOS. More details to follow. Take a look at our new linktr.ee with links to useful resources for the strike and ASOS GSAUCU Committee https://linktr.ee/gsaucu https://www.gsa-ucu.org.uk/ twitter.com/gsaucu |
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Rep 1 – UCU reps induction
Rep 1 – UCU reps induction: 15, 22, 29 November & 6 December 2021, online, Scotland
This online course is aimed at new reps/caseworkers and activists who will be undertaking this role in the near future. Existing reps who have not attended training before are also encouraged to attend. The course will cover all aspects of your role as a rep including your rights as a rep, union democracy, recruitment and communication. You should complete this course prior to applying for the Rep 2 course.
Course details
| Nation/region: | Scotland |
| Course meeting dates: | 15, 22, 29 November & 6 December 2021 Please ensure you can attend the entire course prior to submitting your application form. Please further ensure you have secured time off from your employer to attend. |
| Course meeting times: | All course meetings are held from 10:30am to 12:30pm unless otherwise directed by the course tutor and will be held on the dates above. Some courses may also offer an afternoon debrief. This is not mandatory, however we would recommend you take the tutor up on the offer where available. It is an opportunity to review your days work and discuss the topics you are working on. |
| Course time commitment: | 21 to 25 hours including the course meetings |
| Location: | Weekly zoom/teams meeting and distance learning pack. Expect some group work outside of course meetings. |
| Course content this Rep 1: Introductory course will cover the following: overview of trade union movement history UCU organisation and democracy your rights as a rep and how to apply them communication with members recruitment members’ issues collective responses. The course will give you a good grounding in the role of a UCU rep. You will be expected to complete this Rep 1 course prior to applying for the ‘UCU Rep 2: Handling complex cases’ course. | |
| UCU courses are funded via members’ contributions and public funding. |
Facility time
Online courses are no different to face-to-face courses in terms of time off for training. Time off for training is a right and one which should be exercised as part of normal industrial relations. For more info please see Facilities and time off for UCU reps.
We recommend that you take your facility time on the same day as your course meeting. This will allow you to complete the course activities, and to contact the tutor/attend the course debrief where offered.
When you apply for a course we will assume that are making a commitment to attend the course as advertised, and have secured time off from your employer. Please contact your branch/region if you are having problems securing time off.
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UCU Workload Survey 2021
Timely here at GSA, that HR sent an email regarding Learning Needs Analysis – do fill it in, and tick the boxes you feel you may need support with.
UCU has sent out a request to fill out a Workload Survey.
We urge you all to fill it in too and make sure UCU has the data from across the sector to help us collectively and individually lobby for a workload model, that works.