AUT
University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT
Dear Colleague,
I am contacting you on behalf of the UCL Association of University Teachers, to invite you to consider
joining the AUT, as have the majority of your colleagues.
All staff employed on academic or academic-related salaries are eligible to join AUT. This includes part-time
as well as full-time staff, clinical academics, administrative, computer, library and other academic-related
staff, plus research staff, irrespective of the source of funding. Scientific staff on the payroll of the Medical
Research Council are also eligible to join. We also recruit postgraduate students who are employed as
tutors, demonstrators and teaching assistants.
AUT is both a professional association and a trade union. Its role in higher education means that you can
claim the subscription as a necessary expense of your employment from the Inland Revenue. However, in
addition to trying to improve the university system as a whole, AUT works for better pay and conditions for
staff.
UCLAUT is the largest locally-based local association in the country, with approaching 1500 members, a
team of experienced local officers and an active committee. Whilst salaries and pensions are negotiated
nationally, we are involved in the local implementation of national agreements.
In addition, your conditions of employment are negotiated locally. For example, past meetings of UCLAUT
and the College have covered the employment of part-time teaching staff; a career structure and
promotions procedure for research staff; plus disciplinary, grievance and redundancy procedures for
academic staff. We have negotiated improved maternity leave, a bridging fund for research staff between
contracts, and improvements to the staff review and development scheme. UCLAUT is actively involved in
health and safety issues and the work of the College Committee on Equal Opportunity.
We hold regular meetings, have a College-wide system of Departmental Contacts, and produce a local
newsletter, so there is plenty of opportunity to keep in touch, put your view and become involved.
One of the most valued functions of AUT is to give individual members personal advice and assistance in
relation to their employment. Many more staff find they need such help and last year the proportion rose to
more than 1 in 17 of our members. UCLAUT can, if necessary, call upon the assistance of the full-time
London Regional Official and all the resources of AUT Headquarters, including in the last resort legal advice
and assistance. In these difficult times most staff have found it well worthwhile having the unique expertise
which the AUT can offer in this area.
I sincerely hope that you will join AUT. To do so, please complete the application form overleaf and return it
via the internal mail to Rob Jones, our administrator in the UCLAUT Office. If you have any queries do
please contact Rob x7230 (020 7679 7230) or (preferably) e-mail: r.m.jones@ucl.ac.uk or myself, we each
have an answerphone for messages out of hours. Local Association information is available on the
UCLAUT webpage: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/unions/AUT/
Yours sincerely,
Dave Guppy
President, UCLAUT
Information Systems x32775 (020 7679 2775); e-mail: d.guppy@ucl.ac.uk
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (WS)
ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM 2002/2003
Please complete in BLOCK CAPITALS and return to: Rob Jones, AUT office, UCL. Tel: (020 7679) 7230
(24 hrs) or e-mail (preferable) : r.m.jones@ucl.ac.uk (underline where appropriate):
Full Name and Title: ___________________________________ Male/Female
Position: ____________________________________________
Department or Section: _________________________________
Have you previously been a member of AUT?
Yes/No
If Yes, please state last Local Association and last year of membership:
____________________________________________________________
Have you previously been a member of another trade union during the past 12 months while in employment
in this field?
Yes/No
If Yes, please state name of union(s) and branch(es): _________
____________________________________________________________
Please circle the category of staff/salary group to which you belong:
Academic non-clinical
Library
Other Academic Related
Academic clinical
Computer
Postgraduate
Administrative
Research & Analogous
Other: ______________
Are you paid from external funds?
Yes/No
Are you employed on a part-time contract?
Yes/No
Address (work):* ______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Address (home) ________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
e-mail address: ________________________________ tel no: __________________
* In order to save the Local Association time and expense, AUT would prefer to use your work
address.
PAYMENT OF SUBSCRIPTION
(nb if completing electronically this section must be returned appropriately identified in hard copy
to: Rob Jones, c/o AUT Office, UCL, Gower St, WC1E 6BT)
Members pay a combined national* and local subscription which is related to gross annual salary (excluding
London Weighting currently £2,134 for non-clinical staff). nb Your AUT subscription is allowable against
tax as ‘fees to professional bodies’.
Please circle the subscription level appropriate to your salary (for current salary scales see:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/personnel/salscale/indsal.htm):
Full members whose salary is at or above the
national minimum of university Lecturer A scale.
£11.94 per month
£143.23 p.a.
Full members whose salary is least half but
less than the whole Lecturer A minimum.
£7.24 per month
£86.86 p.a.
Full members whose salary is less than half but
more than one quarter of the Lecturer A minimum.
£3.19 per month
£38.27 p.a.
Full members whose salary is less than one quarter
of the Lecturer A minimum.
£1.51 per month
£18.12 p.a.
Retired members
£27.00 p.a
Unemployed former full members
NIL
Method of Payment
For convenience, AUT would prefer you to sign the mandate below authorising annual or monthly
deductions from your salary. If this is not convenient, please indicate how you would prefer to pay; the AUT
Office will then contact you with further details.
Preferred alternative method of payment: ____________________________
AUT Subscription Mandate (Please circle payment method):
I wish to pay by Annual/Monthly deduction from salary. I hereby authorise my employer to deduct my
subscription from my salary.
Payroll No. (if known): ______________________________________________
Signature _______________________________ Date ____________________
* Includes contribution to the AUT political fund equivalent to 1% of the relevant national subscription.
The AUT holds personal data about all members as referred to in asscociation rule 4.3. This data is used to
process your membership, provide information to you (from AUT and organisations which may be of interest
to you (as detailed in your membership handbook which you will receive from your local association), to
enable the association to carry out its membership activities and to provide us with management and
statistical information. If you do not wish to receive third party mailings from AUT accredited suppliers, please
tick this box
We may disclose personal data about you to banks or building societies where you ask us to arrange yourt
subscription by direct debit. The AUT processes membership data in accordance with data protection
legislation.