Negotiating and working groups

Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) 

This is the negotiating committee with OU management that has a broad remit covering a wide range of employment related matters. 

The union side members of the JNC team is as follows (updated August 2022):

Caitlin Adams, Branch President
Kit Power, Vice President
Richard Bradbury, Vice President
Lesley Kane, Hon. Secretary 

Observers: Isabella Muzio, Ordinary member of the Exec committee.

When any of these are unavailable, other branch officers or executive committee members may stand in and we also have the facility to take observers to the JNC meetings.

Joint Trade Union Forum meetings with People Services (operational JNC meetings)

Caitlin Adams, Branch President
Kit Power, Vice President
Richard Bradbury, Vice President
Anita Pilgrim, Equality Officer
Other Exec committee members attend the meetings when needed. 

Associate Lecturer Operations Working Group (ALOWG - new March 2023)

Isabella Muzio, AL (Chairperson)
Lesley Kane, AL, Hon. Secretary
Judy Ekins, AL, ALs Officer
Richard Bradbury, AL
Kieran McCartney

Recruitment, Organisation and Campaigns Committee (ROCC)

This group was established with the aim of making the branch more visible and improving our membership density, we invite all Watlon Hall, Associate Lecturer and regional/national centre reps to ROCC meetings.