Lancaster UCU
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Lancaster University and College Union (UCU) branch
https://lancasterucu.home.blog/
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📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch! Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8drd8ppymro.amp
3 months ago
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Wishing we could host a fundraising gig every Friday! 🤩 We are incredibly grateful to Persimmon, Bopgun, and Rice for your excellent tunes, and to Jake Lange for the pics (more coming soon) ✊ If you wish to donate to our hardship fund, follow this link
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
20 days ago
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Many congratulations to our comrades at Morecambe College! The threat of strike action has been enough to secure a 4% pay rise, reduction of teaching hours, protected time for planning and marking, safety protections regarding workloads, and more! You are inspiring!!!
28 days ago
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@sheffielducu.bsky.social
, remain steadfast and resolute in your fight for a better tomorrow. Lancaster UCU members stand with you in your dispute.
28 days ago
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Oxford Brookes UCU
29 days ago
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What the Employment Rights Act 2025 means for higher education
The Employment Rights Bill is officially on the statute books, with significant changes to employee rights. Siân Jackson guides us through what institutions need to know
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/what-the-employment-rights-act-2025-means-for-higher-education/
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UNISON
29 days ago
New guide launched to help you challenge the far-right Reform UK party. 🛡️ Stand up for equality 🔍 Spot misinformation 📖 Learn more ⬇️
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29 days ago
Solidarity with everyone out this week - FE deserves better. UCU - Staff at 17 English college employers on strike from today for better pay and working conditions
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1431...
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Staff at 17 English college employers on strike from today for better pay and working conditions
Staff at 17 colleges across England will begin three days of strike action from today after bosses refused to make fair offers over pay and working conditions, the University and College Union (UCU) c...
https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/14310/Staff-at-17-English-college-employers-on-strike-from-today-for-better-pay-and-working-conditions
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University and College Union (UCU)
29 days ago
We love to see it! Solidarity to all our colleagues striking today ✊
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UCU Solidarity Movement
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Sheffield UCU
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
has been taking strike action in defence of jobs this term. But in an alarming escalation, Sheffield management has threatened to "lock out", ie. deduct pay at 100% for each day, if members refuse to reschedule marking, beginning with the start of 2026. 🧵1/7
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LUCU sends huge solidarity to comrades at St Helen’s and Knowsley and City of Liverpool college in their dispute for a New Deal for FE. This is an absolutely crucial fight in the battle for a FE system in crisis. Remain steadfast and resolute in your fight for a better tomorrow.
#ANewDealForFE
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Bijan Parsia
3 months ago
One of the other lessons should be that a lot of these moves by universities are a lot more optional than they claim. Which is bad management. Redundancies are well known in the literature to cause ongoing organisation issues which last for a loooong time.
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
3 months ago
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term. BUT...very grateful to my local union exec
@lancasterucu.bsky.social
and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future Onwards and Solidarity
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📢📢📢Reminder to members: Emergency General Meeting today at 1pm to discuss next steps following last week's announcements
3 months ago
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Absolutely! This U-turn is 100% a trade union victory. As we explain in our post ⬇️ important concerns remain, but the message still holds organised pressure and solidarity works
bsky.app/profile/ucu....
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3 months ago
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David Bartram
3 months ago
You know your union branch is in good shape if the mere *threat* of strike is sufficient to achieve your goals. If you have to actually go on strike, you've probably already lost. (congrats
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University and College Union (UCU)
3 months ago
Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies. After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026. This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8drd8ppymro.amp
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📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch! Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8drd8ppymro.amp
3 months ago
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UCU Edinburgh
3 months ago
RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament.
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📢REMINDER THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY📢
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3 months ago
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📢 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING📢 Lancaster UCU members, don't forget the Extraordinary General Meeting tomorrow at 2:00pm. Check emails for meeting link
3 months ago
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We have made it clear to management that we will not take their unjust and unethical proposals lying down and we have completely demolished their credibility.
3 months ago
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UCU Hallam
3 months ago
@ucu.org.uk
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
@lancasterucu.bsky.social
Solidarity with all striking branches this month!
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UCU Hallam
3 months ago
Strike Day 2: Pickets at Owen building & HoTC, 8-11am every strike day Dispute info here:
ucuhallam.org
The fight is against compulsory redundancies & poor governance
#SaveSheffieldHallam
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Katie McDonough
3 months ago
Please consider donating to the Lancaster UCU Hardship Fund as we prepare to go on strike next week against the threat of compulsory redundancies at Lancaster University.
#ukhe
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
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🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨 We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November. Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.
@ucu.org.uk
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#Lancaster
colleages, today is the last safe day to post your ballot. A strong mandate is our best option. At many institutions, CRs were withdrawn after ballots for industrial action with high participation and strong results.
#nocompulsoryredundancies
4 months ago
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University and College Union (UCU)
4 months ago
Imperial staff have had enough. A 2% below-inflation offer from one of the wealthiest universities in the UK is an insult to every worker who keeps it running. Today we strike for fair pay, decent conditions, and respect ✊🔥
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Rob Hawkes
4 months ago
As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
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UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/01/16/uk-universities-in-crisis-time-to-transform-higher-ed-finance/
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
4 months ago
Teaching Term Week 1 - the
@lancasterucu.bsky.social
ballot to determine strike action against redundancies closes on Friday 🗳☑️
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Wednesday is the last day to safely mail your ballot for it to arrive on time before closing on Friday 10th. Vote YES & YES. Post your BALLOT. Use this chance to take CRs off the table! 📨 📨 📨
#WeAreTheUniversity
#StopTheCuts
#nocompulsoryredundancies
4 months ago
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What will it be like to work or study at Lancaster University, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? How will these impact local communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable? Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
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Earlier this week
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UCU joined 46 other UCU branches across the country demanding Jo Grady to treat our Unite colleagues with the same respect we demand from our employers. End this cynism and hypochresy,
@drjogrady.bsky.social
It's not a good look.
#WeAreTheUniversity
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#Lancaster
, we have a choice: we can give our everything to stop CRs and the collapse of
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
, or we can submit to Senior Management's plans and see LU crumble before our eyes. There is no second chance. VOTE IN THE BALLOT. RECLAIM YOUR CHANCE!
#nocompulsoryredundancies
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Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies
4 months ago
Hello all on bsky 👋 As with so many of our
@ucu.org.uk
sister branches, here
@brunelucu.bsky.social
we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies. Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...
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Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London
Brunel University of London management have expressed their intention to move forward with plans for further compulsory redundancies in 2025-26. This comes after a year of decimation in 2024-25, when ...
https://speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-redundancies/
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
4 months ago
Strike continues! We will be holding another rally today, meeting in the Trent Courtyard at 12:40 before walking over to the Portland building. We are also holding a members meeting at 3:00 today. Members- check your emails for joining info!
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What will it be like to work or study at Lancaster University, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? How will these impact local communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable? Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
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4 months ago
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
4 months ago
Wonderful to meet our new students during this week's Welcome Week ! 😊 And then I remember 👇
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What will it be like to work or study at LancasterUni , if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? What about the impact on communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable? Sign our petition to stop this nonsense!
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4 months ago
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University and College Union (UCU)
5 months ago
UCU members are standing strong on the picket lines this week as we fight back against devastating job cuts. Show your support to colleagues at Leicester UCU!
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Sheffield UCU
5 months ago
BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.
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Liverpool Hope Uni UCU Branch
8 months ago
Today Liverpool Hope UCU held a rally on Open Day. Our fight is for not only our colleagues and jobs, but for our current & future students. They all deserve the best.
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Lancaster ballot is open!!! Vote early, and vote Yes and Yes! Upload your pics posting your ballot and tag us ✉️ A successful ballot is our most important tool to push the employer to negotiate.
#WeAreTheUniversity
#StopTheCuts
5 months ago
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University and College Union (UCU)
5 months ago
Liverpool this morning: our GS
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joined PCS members on the
#MegaPicket
. PCS members are in their 13th week of strike action ✊ Solidarity with all workers fighting back.
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Leicester UCU
5 months ago
Pickets in full force on the first day of strike - see you all tomorrow!
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#Lancaster
Don’t forget to Vote Ballot closes Fri 10 Oct 2025 (noon) If you have not received your ballot papers, please request a replacement ballot paper using this link:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/Lancaster...
The deadline for requesting replacement papers is Friday 3 Oct 2025, noon.
5 months ago
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QM_UCU
5 months ago
Sure, and great. But can we get
@unitesharon.bsky.social
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
to say something about the terrible union-busting tactics that
@ucu.org.uk
Senior Management is now implementing against
@uniteucu.bsky.social
members?
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...
#Lab25
#Labour2025
#LabourConference
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Morning
#Lancaster
colleagues! Have you been affected by the FASS move? If so, participate in our survey about it. All your insights will feed into our complaint to the HSE
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Remember to vote on our Lancaster ballot ✉️ And vote Yes and Yes! Upload your pics posting your ballot and tag us. A successful ballot is our most important tool to push the employer to negotiate.
#WeAreTheUniversity
#StopTheCuts
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Remember to vote on our Lancaster ballot ✉️ And vote Yes and Yes! Upload your pics posting your ballot and tag us. A successful ballot is our most important tool to push the employer to negotiate.
#WeAreTheUniversity
#StopTheCuts
5 months ago
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So good to see members voting on our local ballot!
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Morning
#Lancaster
colleagues! Have you been affected by the FASS move? If so, participate in our survey about it. All your insights will feed into our complaint to the HSE
forms.office.com/e/SwLSXTn81X
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