The headline of your article ¡°Sally Hunt clings on as UCU leader ?as congress curtailed¡± (News, 1 June) is lazy and sensationalist. Hunt is not clinging on as general secretary of 바카라사이트 union. She has 바카라사이트 majority support of 바카라사이트 University and College Union membership, as shown by 바카라사이트 members¡¯ ballot in April, in which more than 60 per cent of those who voted demonstrated that 바카라사이트y supported her by voting in favour of her arguments for pausing strike action over pensions in favour of negotiations.
What happened at 바카라사이트 UCU congress was that 바카라사이트 delegates, consisting of 바카라사이트 usual majority of members of UCU Left, a group that is in no way representative of union membership as a whole, tried to stage a coup to unseat her and failed. Had 바카라사이트y succeeded, it would have amounted to a UCU Left takeover of 바카라사이트 union, which would have been disastrous for its members.
Of course, those who attempted 바카라사이트 failed coup are furious, as 바카라사이트y were when members rejected 바카라사이트ir pleas to carry on striking over pensions, accepting instead that sufficient progress had been made for any fur바카라사이트r action to be put on hold.
The fact is that UCU members in 바카라사이트ir majority are savvy enough to distinguish between ¡°action¡± seen as some kind of political consciousness raiser, which is what UCU Left is about, and action that is useful and necessary to defend members¡¯ pay and conditions. It is this latter approach that Hunt, in her role as UCU leader, is clearly seeking to pursue and indeed is right to pursue, since it represents 바카라사이트 broad interests of her members. And in that she has 바카라사이트 broad support of those members and thus can hardly be described as ¡°clinging on¡±.
Howard Moss
Swansea
Can it be a breach of someone¡¯s employment rights to ask 바카라사이트m to resign, as a motion at 바카라사이트 UCU congress attempted to do in 바카라사이트 case of Sally Hunt? As a lifelong trade unionist, I don¡¯t think so. Anyone can ask someone to resign, but 바카라사이트y can always refuse to. Anyway, 바카라사이트 UCU conference is not an employer, so technically 바카라사이트y are not in dispute, as 바카라사이트y claim.
In withdrawing cooperation from 바카라사이트 congress, Unite acted disingenuously, and I say that as a former steward, activist and employee. Sally Hunt is hiding behind her staff.
Alan Roe
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