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Sign the open letter
https://www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-with-hebrew-university
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Silvia Paracchini
about 2 months ago
Add your signature to demand that the University of St Andrews sever its links with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
@ucustandrews.bsky.social
www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...
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UCU Westminster
2 months ago
There should be a joint statement from the five unions in the next day or so (which also mentions pay, jobs, and nationally agreed employment conditions). For now, here is some further detail on what our dispute is about and what we UCU members will be balloted on nationally:
#WeAreTheUniversity
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UCU Edinburgh
2 months ago
Thanks to all the
@ucu.org.uk
branches supporting us today and this week! Here's a link to our hardship fund -- solidarity donations appreciated!
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/hff-fundrais...
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Silvia Paracchini
2 months ago
When institutions fail to guarantee international law and human rights, collective action becomes essential. I encourage all staff and students at the University of St Andrews to readāand consider signingāthis letter
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A fantastic away day for the branch committee today. Lots of planning for the year ahead. And plenty of ways for members to get more involved!
3 months ago
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Staff and students at St Andrews - sign the open letter calling on the university to end links with Hebrew University
www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...
3 months ago
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reposted by
QM_UCU
5 months ago
"We value the work that all of the staff at UCU provide to our branches, and expect them to have access to the same fair work practices that we fight for as a union." Open letter for all
@ucu.org.uk
members to sign in support of
@uniteucu.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Letter to UCU Trustees and NEC
Dear National Executive Committee and UCU Trustees, As members of UCU, we are writing to you to raise serious concerns about the continued breakdown of industrial relations between UCU and its staff. ...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciSyq74CqVrwsU8QRT1kyxJLOvdHTnfOzxFonGOxBnKB3ewg/viewform
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St Andrews people - sign the letter calling on the University to condemn the Supreme Court ruling
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Microsoft Forms
https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=yyZW-KgN00mqWGTvZ47wGuqogfpvD_VDumSno2tPz9RUMFIxMzUyUUs1QzNWMkU0T0MxRDJMWjZGMy4u&route=shorturl
7 months ago
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Unite UCU
7 months ago
š£ May Day Rally š£ We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London. All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace.
#ThriveNotSurvive
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Rally for trans rights in St Andrews on Thursday at noon outside college gate. See you there!
7 months ago
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Joss
7 months ago
Many of us in UCU work almost daily with dedicated colleagues in Unite, together supporting UCU members. It grieves me to know their working conditions are harming them An injury to one is an injury to all. Unite are trying to tell us our union is broken we need to work with them to repair it
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
7 months ago
And there it is. A shocking, appalling, and deeply disappointing announcement of an entirely unnecessary move from the university. But this is exactly why we have already started organising .
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University of Nottingham plans to cut more than 250 jobs
Announcing the consultation, the university said it was a "critical moment for universities across the UK".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g37ynkd22o
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Ryan Swan Ų±ŁŲ§Ł Ų³ŁŲ§Ł
7 months ago
Is there a connection between the sacking of rector Stella Maris and the refusal to disclose the name of a University of St Andrews donor? Article worth reading from the University's magazine:
www.thesaint.scot/post/univers...
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University Withholds Name of Donor Mentioned in Stella Maris Report
Despite two Freedom of Information requests from the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), the University of St Andrews continues to withhold the name of the āprospective funderā menti...
https://www.thesaint.scot/post/university-withholds-name-of-donor-mentioned-in-stella-maris-report
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Durham UCU
7 months ago
We are not just numbers on a spreadsheet. We are not just a cost to cut. We are not a quick way to save university managers from the consequences of their own decisions. We are people, looking to live our lives, trying to keep ourselves and our families secure. We deserve to be able to do that.
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Goldsmiths UCU
7 months ago
Solidarity with
@uniteucu.bsky.social
on their third of twenty escalating days strike action, in their ongoing disputes with
@ucu.org.uk
over an unsafe and racist workplace as well as pay. Support our comrades fighting toxic management by signing the petition:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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reposted by
QM_UCU
8 months ago
āHappyā anniversary to The List. A year of this webpage mapping, watching managers cut jobs & departments to meet local KPIs while transforming the shape of higher education & research across the country. And government enabling this.
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UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the countryāsā¦
https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/
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UCU Newcastle University
8 months ago
Tuesday weāll be out again. People keep telling us how angry and upset they are, how they donāt understand that there is ZERO movement, and wonder how much management even care. People are done, students are done, management need to stop these damaging cuts NOW.
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8 months ago
Powerful testimony from
@ducuuo.bsky.social
#WeAreThe632
about the job cuts in Dundee and its impact on all our lives. Share widely
@uculeft.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk
@ucuscotland.bsky.social
@ucustandrews.bsky.social
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QM_UCU
8 months ago
Rule of thumb: donāt threaten your staff. For those who have difficulty understanding: donāt threaten your staff to stop them from shedding light on what is being done to public institutions.
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Dundee UCU
8 months ago
Acting Chair of Court was ābaffledā by the University of Dundeeās finances. And looks forward to the investigation helping to uncover what went wrong! They still donāt know what went wrong at the University of Dundee.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
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Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV
https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/education-children-and-young-people-committee-march-19-2025?clip_start=09:43:02&clip_end=09:44:20
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reposted by
Plashing Vole
8 months ago
Every time university senior managers tell you they care, show them this little detail from Dundee.
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University and College Union (UCU)
8 months ago
Solidarity with our Newcastle University members on strike today ā The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts šŖ The whole union is behind you šŖ§ Read more:
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...
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UCU Edinburgh
8 months ago
Do our 'leaders' live on a different planet than their staff, we wonder?
theferret.scot/edinburgh-un...
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āA slap in the faceā: Edinburgh uni staff rage at principalās second job amid layoffs
Edinburgh university principal Sir Peter Mathieson has taken a potentially lucrative second job despite warning staff of looming layoffs.
https://theferret.scot/edinburgh-uni-staff-rage-principals-second-job-cuts/
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Plashing Vole
8 months ago
Another example of university managements weaponising dignity at work rules to silence critique of the rulers by the serfs. Something my colleagues and I have experienced here too.
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Dundee UCU
8 months ago
Today is the final day of our 15 days of industrial action at the University of Dundee. Everyone is invited to join our FAMILY AND FRIENDS DAY to show their support for university staff. 2-4pm - signmaking at Roseangle cafƩ 4-5pm - gather at the front of the Tower. Free pizza.
#SaveHE
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UCU Scotland
8 months ago
Amazing turnout of
@unitescotland.bsky.social
members at Strathclyde rallying to defend their pension this morning. Speeches including Scotland official, Mary Senior, offering solidarity from UCU
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reposted by
QM_UCU
8 months ago
While senior managementās tactic continues to be (1) donāt inform & (2) fragment & oppose colleagues & Schools, it will be all the more vital to stick together and protect what we know to be valuable. So we made sure there was some actual info ready for colleagues ahead of the town hall.
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UCU Edinburgh
8 months ago
Where 'crisis' can lead, please take note
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
No need for this, NO to compulsory redundancies and death by a thousand cuts!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cardiff Uni jobs threat leads to toxic culture - Leighton Andrews
Professor and former education minister says plan to cut 400 jobs has created a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgpkmk783ko
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QM_UCU
8 months ago
If you're being approached by SOAS to do marking, be aware that the SOAS tutors are on a marking boycott & you're being asked to scab mark (managers don't feel they should be transparent about it) hardship fund:
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UCU Newcastle University
8 months ago
Solidarity with our colleagues in the Netherlands!
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Dundee UCU
8 months ago
Hereās our schedule for this week. Monday 10 March Join us at the picket line ā 9 am ā 1 pm, outside Tower Building and Bonar Hall. Lobby of Court ā 12 pm. Tuesday 11 March Join us at the picket line ā 12-3 pm, Dalhousie Building, including streaming Principalās Questions. Online picket, 3pm.
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QM_UCU
8 months ago
The crisis in
#UKHE
is dreadful and infuriating --government intervention so clearly needed and their non-action is destroying so much-- but if you needed any further evidence that critical and creative thought is vital, look no further than the excellent as comms
@newcastleucu.bsky.social
produces
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UCU Aberystwyth
8 months ago
We've updated our website.
aberystwyth.web.ucu.org.uk/solidarity-t...
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Solidarity to branches fighting for jobs
Thousands of staff at campuses across the country are either in dispute and taking industrial action already or balloting to do so as a result of major cuts announced to staffing across the higher edu...
https://aberystwyth.web.ucu.org.uk/solidarity-to-branches-fighting-for-jobs/
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Dundee UCU
8 months ago
Come and have a chat with us on our friendly picket line today at the front of the Tower Building from 8-11am. Fresh pizza from around 10:45 courtesy of
@dejanstjepanovic.bsky.social
and his pizza oven.
#SaveHE
#NoJobCuts
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reposted by
University and College Union (UCU)
8 months ago
Thousands of jobs are at risk in higher education.
@drjogrady.bsky.social
told
@itvnews.bsky.social
how UCU is fighting back with our
#STOPtheCUTS
campaignš Sign the petition now:
stopthecutspetition.org.uk
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University and College Union (UCU)
9 months ago
We condemn the University of Cambridge's attempt to place legal restrictions on all pro-Palestine protests. Alongside
@pscupdates.bsky.social
and
@libertyhq.bsky.social
we call out this application to the High Court for an injunction what it is: a shameful attack on basic democratic rights.
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Huge solidarity to
@ducuuo.bsky.social
who are out on strike this week, fighting against cruel and unfair redundancies.
9 months ago
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reposted by
Viviane Saglier
9 months ago
Brilliant and damning analysis by
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
on how their "Management is manufacturing a crisis to justify staff costs"
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/3fzpaa5...
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No Compulsory Redundancies at The University Of Edinburgh! ā UCU Edinburgh
Management Is Manufacturing a āFinancial Crisisā to Impose Staff Cuts
https://www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/3fzpaa5xmpw4rhswnawnydf8wk5te8
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Tomorrow - 12pm outside Blackfriers Chapel on South Street Rally for Freedom for Palestine Organised by some of our wonderful students, and part of the day of action.
9 months ago
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Hi pals - we are having a branch meeting today, the link just went out in an email. Come along to discuss our campaigns and actions!
9 months ago
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UCU Scotland
10 months ago
We're hiring... Branch administrator/organiser position with our
@ucustandrews.bsky.social
branch at St Andrews. Part time, permanent position. More details and how to apply...
www.ucu.org.uk/vacancies#BAO1
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Work for us
Working for UCU
https://www.ucu.org.uk/vacancies#BAO1
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Reminder - Joint Union Event Get to know YOUR trade unions - All welcome! Tea, coffee, biscuits, and cake provided. 15th of January 2025 12:00 ā 14:00 The Committee Room, Studentsā Association
10 months ago
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Reminder - Joint Union Event Get to know YOUR trade unions - All welcome! Tea, coffee, biscuits, and cake provided. 15th of January 2025 12:00 ā 14:00 The Committee Room, Studentsā Association
10 months ago
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University and College Union (UCU)
10 months ago
The devastating cuts at Dundee University harm staff, damage the universityās reputation and student experience Senior managers must work with the union to rule out compulsory redundancies š
@ucuscotland.bsky.social
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University staff balloted on strike action over proposed job cuts
The University of Dundee recently announced a projected shortfall of £30m amid a fall in the recruitment of international students.
https://news.stv.tv/north/university-of-dundee-staff-balloted-on-strike-action-over-proposed-job-cuts
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Over the weekend some of our members and colleagues have organised a letter to senior management, to show support for the Rector. It's still open to staff signatures here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Letter to senior leadership team of the University of St Andrews, in support of Rector Maris
Dear Principal and Senior Leadership Team of the University of St Andrews, We are writing as a group of concerned staff at the University of St Andrews to express our emphatic disagreement with your p...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJk4VXy-7amWnmAYFk9wz063ILElwG39_wYO8SewB3_S88sg/viewform
almost 2 years ago
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reposted by
Sarah Burton
about 2 years ago
Please sign this letter to UKRI in support of the academics targeted by Michelle Donelan MP
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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UKRI open letter (public)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQuP_mvDHNjryNd2gnenQJ0ffUMZ_1SdVL-2RnWdYJZdw5CGIAuyG00-KzCBLWiYwvBD2Xear-hGSsX/pub
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Hello? Very excited that our first post (is that what we're calling them?) is all about our upcoming day of action! Wednesday 27th September 12-2pm Outside Library Flyering 2pm Get together, collect a new poster for your door, College Gate And look at all these other actions to take!
about 2 years ago
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