Hands Off! Don't touch our Koma!
Together we can make a massive impact on job security in universities, especially for part timers. This involves you being willing to openly say "Hands Off Our Koma" to your university.
GENERAL UNION
Union launches campaign for NO REDUCTION in 2022 koma!
Every year since 2011, about this time of year the union begins thinking about our members' koma in the next year and how to prevent them from being reduced.
This is because we decided that the best way to prevent cuts in koma is not to wait till they are lost, but to act first. We do this by surveying members to check which university they want to declare their union membership to as part of our union demands for NO REDUCTION in their next year's koma. Most universities have reacted very well to this by not cutting union members’ koma.
For example, in the 2020 academic year...
Demands sent: 37 universities covering 125 member jobs
No koma cuts: 34 universities covering 118 member jobs
Koma cut: 3 universities covering 6 member jobs
This is evidence of how collectively telling universities to keep their "Hands Off Our Koma" works.