REGINE
PILLING
FOR VP
REGINE
PILLING
FOR VP
Our strength lies in collective action. By listening to members, acting on their democratic decisions, and standing together — we can win.
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I’m standing for UCU Vice President (FE) because I care deeply about the whole post-16 education sector. I believe our union can and must be a powerful, organising force that delivers for members. Members want a union that listens, stands up for them, provides real solidarity and is prepared to fight with and for them.
If you have any questions, please get in touch as I really do want to hear from members: rpilling4UCUVP@proton.me
Unfortunately, turnout in UCU elections is often low, so every vote counts. If you support what I’m standing for, please vote for me and encourage others to do the same.
It would be an honour to serve as your UCU Vice President (FE) and to stand up for our members across the sector.
I am standing as a member of UCU Left, here is more information about our slate.
I am supporting Sean Wallis for UCU Vice President (HE) - please visit seanwallis.uk
If you’d like to get involved in the campaign, please fill in the form below:
Our Aims...Austerity and marketisation continue to devastate post-16 education. Education is treated as a business rather than as a public good. Staff are simply "resources" who are worked to exhaustion or seen as costs to be cut. But we can change this.
We need a union that fights for all members - whether they are pre-1992, post-1992, FE, Adult Ed or in Prisons. We face many of the same issues and we all need a union that listens and stands up for members and post-16 education.
The level of pay disparity in FE is shameful – fragmentation of the sector was the 1992 Tory govt plan for the sector, and embedded by our employers.
Poor pay and mounting workloads has created staff recruitment and retention crisis.
I will support:
- FE branches taking action to win on national binding bargaining
- Our members to push for the best deals.
Adult Education funding is over 30% lower in real terms than a decade ago. The number of learners have dropped to similar levels in the aftermath of WW2.
We need:
- A more vibrant, high profile campaign for Adult Education that involves students, staff, employers and puts pressure on government and devolved bodies.
The wave of redundancies demonstrates there needs to be a nationally coordinated strategy to protect jobs, pay and academic disciplines.
UCU must:
- Support HE branches in resisting these attacks - real solidarity and support, rather than being left to fight alone.
- Rebuild a national campaign that highlights an alternative vision to this failed funding model.
UCU is the members – they want to be listened to. But not just that, once we have voted, we want those actions implemented.
I will:
- Act on our members democratic decisions
- Amplify branches under attack and seek to build maximum solidarity for them
for all
The progressive gains that have been won, are being rolled back with Reform UK leading the charge.
I will:
- Organise against racism, transphobia and other discrimination both inside and outside the workplace.
- Stand in solidarity with Palestine and resist the suppression of free speech.
The world feels pretty bleak right now – but if we fight, we can make a better society. Education has a transformational power for individuals and society and trade unions have the ability to organise the necessary resistance.
I will campaign:
- For education and welfare, not bombs.
- Greater action against the climate emergency.
- For greater mental health support for staff and students.
Thanks to our clients, friends, partners. Thank you to our team of volunteers who made this journey possible.
It is important that those who stand for leadership - listen to members and then enact the decisions made by members.
Our branch has just taking part in the nationally coordinated strike action for fair pay, manageable workloads, and national binding bargaining. I supported members' calls to escalate the campaign at FESC last year, and as a member of FEC I have consistently voted to enact these decisions and communicated our votes to branches.
Whether you are in FE, HE, ACE or Prisons, our strength comes from the same place: our ability to stand together. That solidarity takes many forms — a rep supporting members through casework, a branch negotiating over workloads, organising against racism in the workplace, or taking industrial action. It is by supporting one another that we make our voices louder and our union stronger.
When members demand change or are being threatened, our union must be there to stand with them. That means supporting branch development and recognising the vital role regions play in building networks of rank-and-file support. But it also means a national union that steps up — visible on the picket lines, organising protests at disputes of national importance whilst also being vocal in the media, and relentlessly in lobbying employers and government.
UCU is powerful when it acts democratically, collectively, and decisively in the interests of its members. That is the union we must continue to build.
It is important that those who stand for leadership - listen to members and then enact the decisions made by members.
Our branch has just taking part in the nationally coordinated strike action for fair pay, manageable workloads, and national binding bargaining. I supported members' calls to escalate the campaign at FESC last year, and as a member of FEC I have consistently voted to enact these decisions and communicated our votes to branches.
Whether you are in FE, HE, ACE or Prisons, our strength comes from the same place: our ability to stand together. That solidarity takes many forms — a rep supporting members through casework, a branch negotiating over workloads, organising against racism in the workplace, or taking industrial action. It is by supporting one another that we make our voices louder and our union stronger.
When members demand change or are being threatened, our union must be there to stand with them. That means supporting branch development and recognising the vital role regions play in building networks of rank-and-file support. But it also means a national union that steps up — visible on the picket lines, organising protests at disputes of national importance whilst also being vocal in the media, and relentlessly in lobbying employers and government.
UCU is powerful when it acts democratically, collectively, and decisively in the interests of its members. That is the union we must continue to build.
It is important that those who stand for leadership - listen to members and then enact the decisions made by members.
Our branch has just taking part in the nationally coordinated strike action for fair pay, manageable workloads, and national binding bargaining. I supported members' calls to escalate the campaign at FESC last year, and as a member of FEC I have consistently voted to enact these decisions and communicated our votes to branches.
Whether you are in FE, HE, ACE or Prisons, our strength comes from the same place: our ability to stand together. That solidarity takes many forms — a rep supporting members through casework, a branch negotiating over workloads, organising against racism in the workplace, or taking industrial action. It is by supporting one another that we make our voices louder and our union stronger.
When members demand change or are being threatened, our union must be there to stand with them. That means supporting branch development and recognising the vital role regions play in building networks of rank-and-file support. But it also means a national union that steps up — visible on the picket lines, organising protests at disputes of national importance whilst also being vocal in the media, and relentlessly in lobbying employers and government.
UCU is powerful when it acts democratically, collectively, and decisively in the interests of its members. That is the union we must continue to build.