LSHTM were quickest off the mark in consulting their members after Congress. In a ballot of local UCU members 89% backed the following statement:
The London School of Hygiene believes that another full year of arguments about a potential boycott of Israeli academic institutions without a decision will be divisive and hence counter to the interests of the members of this union.
We therefore call upon the NEC to ballot the full membership of UCU on the issue of whether or not to instigate a boycott as quickly as practicable, while still adhering to the instructions coming to NEC from motion 30 at the 2007 Congress. We believe we must trust the membership to decide what they want their union to do, with all due speed. We hope that other branches that will support this call.
In the event of such a ballot we call on all branches to do their best to get a high turn out.