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Vicky Blake UCUI know some members struggled to believe this could really be true earlier this week. But anyone who emailed a UCU staffer on strike earlier this week got an identikit out-of-office + the deleted advice page + this email sent to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCU</a> staff sadly confirms this really happened.The Safe & Professional Workplace dispute must be resolved. I'm deeply concerned by the tone of multiple emails received from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCU</a> HQ about the dispute and urge members to look at <a href="https://union.place/@UniteUCU" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@UniteUCU</a> 's website too.5/6

Vicky Blake UCULet's compare this assertion to UCU's template (below).This was a terrible choice which has:- worsened industrial relations- directly undermined every <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCU</a> member & branch in dispute- directly undermines UCU's own advice & organising tactics- is likely to further embolden post-16 ed employers to use more aggressive tactics citing 'well you do it'4/6

Vicky Blake UCUThere was consternation when this kicked off 2 days ago that a 'management instruction' had been given to stop using a *routine tactic* we employ in branches. There's clearly a connected concern about disciplinary action for using a tactic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCU</a> itself advises us to useI've seen an email essentially claiming by putting info about being on strike into an autoreply (a tactic UCU has routinely advised members to use) that the staff doing so have caused UCU to disclose personal sensitive data 3/6

Vicky Blake UCUThen this page was deleted: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230218233943/https://www.ucu.org.uk/Out-of-office" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20230218233943/https://www.ucu.org.uk/Out-of-office</a>To be super clear, when the above quoted post from <a href="https://union.place/@UniteUCU" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@UniteUCU</a> went online two days ago, the page of advice to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCU</a> members about out of office autoreplies was still live. Now it is not. Our union, in employer capacity, has gone into staff email accounts and manually altered autoreplies. 2/6

Vicky Blake UCUI had really hoped <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCU</a> would redouble efforts to resolve the <a href="https://union.place/@UniteUCU" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@UniteUCU</a> staff dispute. Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCU</a> members have routinely been advised to use *by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCU</a>* <a href="https://union.place/@UniteUCU/114275164779074799" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://union.place/@UniteUCU/114275164779074799</a>1/6

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