Negotiation not Imposition

Plackards spotted at the UEL UCU demonstration at Stratford campus today read

UCU members demonstrate at Stratford

• Negotiation not Imposition
• ‘UEL – the Wild West East ;
• ‘Wanted – a Fair Deal at UEL‘;     and
• ‘Bottom of the League – Sack that Management‘.

UCU members made it clear that they were willing to undertake further industrial action until such time as the UEL senior management team changed their approach from an impostion (and some said a bullying) management style to one  where negotiation and consultation were the normal way of operating at UEL.

The demonstration at Stratford today was to get UEL senior management to agree to

• a fair and transparent means of allocating work
• equal distribution of work across the university
• equal treatment of staff – no favourtism or bullying
• a fair appeals system
• a positive educational experience for our students