UCU campaigns update:

In this week’s campaigns update:

Further education England member pay consultation
Members in further education England are to be consulted on whether to accept the Association of Colleges’ (Aoc) final offer for 2016/17. If you are a member working in an English FE college then please look out for an email inviting you to vote in the consultative ballot which should arrive in your inbox over the next 24 hours. For more on the FE England pay campaign please see here.

Urgent: stop the demolition of Calais camp petition
The Calais refugee camp is now under imminent threat of demolition leaving around 9000 refugees facing winter with no shelter. Please urgently support the Care4Calais campaign and sign the petition to stop the demolition.

United for Education demonstration 19 November
Please help us make the 19 November UCU/NUS demonstration for education the biggest ever by downloading posters, sharing on Facebook and letting us know you are coming here. We also need more volunteers to help steward so please email:ebailey@ucu.org.uk.

Also this week:
• In the news
• Stand up for EU staff and students
• Senior management survey (SMS) to audit university management practices
• UCU offers legal advice on immigration to EU members
• UCU Learning for Life: develop your career with our CPD courses
• LGBT+ research conference 2017
• Voice care for educators
• UCU equality groups conference
• Offenders’ Learning and Skills Services: prison education contracts
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All the best

Ed Bailey
UCU acting head of campaigns