Members of the UCU who want a direct say on the issue of an academic boycott of Israel will need to lobby those who are supposed to represent us on the NEC.
You can find out who is on the NEC here and you can see who represents your sector and your region. Some members of the NEC strongly favour a ballot. But those who stood on the slate of the "UCULeft" tend to oppose a ballot, preferring to decide on the issue at Congress, without members having a direct voice. Members who want a direct vote need to tell UCULeft to stop blocking a ballot.
UCU Left say "we are strongly opposed to any attempts that might be made to peremptorily ‘resolve’ this issue which would involve bypassing UCU’s democratic structures or undermining properly-constituted decisions made at Annual Congress by branch delegates."
UCU members will be able to work out what this means: UCU Left do not want a ballot of the whole membership - they want the matter to drag on until next Congress, or beyond. And then they want to exclude the vast majority of the memebrship of the union from any direct say. They want the often self-selecting delegates to that Congress to make the decision for the members.
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If you are lobbying the NEC members, lobby those who have not signed
Posted by Jimmy Donaghey | September 26, 2007 2:04 PM
Posted on September 26, 2007 14:04