A road map for branch activists to organising a successful marking and assessment boycott

Katy Fox-Hodess; David Harvie; Mariya Ivancheva; Mark  Pendleton

A road map for branch activists to organising a successful marking and assessment boycott

Katy Fox-Hodess, David Harvie, Mariya Ivancheva, Mark Pendleton

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'All branches should be using picket lines to organise and plan for a summer [marking and assessment boycott'. – Joe Newman and Roberto Mozzachiodi, 'Notes on a Marking and Assessment Boycott', Notes from Below, 20 January 2023.

The future direction of our two #ucuRISING disputes – the Four Fights and on USS pensions – is currently uncertain – in dispute, we think it's fair to say. What happens next will depend on the outcome of various meetings and consultations. We don't want to comment here on how our union arrived at this point, nor on what steps we think it (we) should take next. Instead we want to offer some very concrete organising recommendations regarding a summer marking and assessment boycott.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 30 Mar 2023

Keywords

trade unions
academic labour
industrial action
United Kingdom

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A road map for branch activists to organising a successful marking and assessment boycott

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