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(From Guardian Unlimited)
Lecturers are today being asked to vote on the proposed merger of the two major lecturer unions.
Members of the Association of University Teachers, which represents academics in the older universities, and lecturers belonging to Natfhe, which represents those in post-1992 institutions and colleges, are being asked by their leaders to approve the move to form a single union next year.
Representatives of both unions backed the proposals at their conferences earlier this year. Newly elected officials will not take up their posts until a decision on the merger has been made.
The proposed new union already has a new name: The University and College Union, and will include lecturers, managers, researchers, librarians, administrators and computing professionals in colleges and universities across the UK.
In a joint statement, ...