Delays in UCU strike ballot leave marking boycotters ‘exposed’

Union has just weeks left to call vote on whether to extend industrial action or members will face being forced to clear assessment backlog

Published on
August 10, 2023
Last updated
August 10, 2023
Tom Williams
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Source: Eleanor Bentall
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Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by kkim88 on August 10, 2023 - 9:41am
Not necessarily the case participants will be forced to mark. Many 23/24 workloads are already full (because universities are critically understaffed because they are critically underfunded by the gov’t) leaving no room for additional work (like 22/23 marking) to be allocated by those institutions who deducted on the basis of not accepting partial performance. And many academics will have moved onto different institutions.
#2 Submitted by ... on August 10, 2023 - 10:29am
Beginning to sound like a Trade Union that can’t organise a sherry party in the SCR…

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