Ideas
(Please note I wish to remain entirely anonymous)
The Unison branch is currently in dispute with the University over the imposition of a new contract and erosion of terms and conditions. Unison represents the lowest paid staff, often on precarious terms of employment and disproportionately from marginalised backgrounds. The behaviour of the University is unreasonable on its own terms and the Guild should support the action on the basic principles of fairness - that the university should negotiate, not impose, and should not remove allowances, force workers to accept working unsociable hours, or seek to circumvent collective bargaining.
However, more troublingly, the Guild's own policy is clear - unless instructed otherwise by a REFERENDUM (note not any other kind of vote), It MUST support lawful industrial action by PUBLICISING the action, EDUCATING students about why the action is called, ENCOURAGING students to join picket lines and LOBBYING the university to negotiate. To date, there is no public evidence of the same or any calling of a referendum, which is a shameful breach of democratically decided policy and ignores the plight of marginalised and casualised workers. The Guild must urgently rectify this failure to follow its own policy and the Officer Team must issue a public apology explaining why they have failed to act in accordance with Guild policy.
Policy
Scrutiny
Why, given strike action first take place weeks ago, why was Guild policy ignored and no statement made?
Questions