The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester
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Defend DMU!
[email protected]
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QM_UCU
3 days ago
We need a mandate, because managers and their consultants have pivoted the purpose of our institutions from research & education to prioritising financial gain over everything. Enough. Staff and students need to be central in the decision-making processes and priorities again.
#SaveHE
#WeAreTheUni
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There are a series of petitions relevant to the troubling situation at our fellow East Midlands institution, please do sign them if you can
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University of Hertfordshire UCU
2 days ago
Meanwhile, at last report, the University had cash including short-term deposits of Ā£139.4 million. For all these reasons and more, vote YES in UCUās national ballot ā a strong mandate is the only way VCs will begin to take fair pay and conditions seriously.
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Northumbria UCU Branch
2 days ago
From a
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
member: "it is wrong to frame this as saying staff will have options, when all options correspond to a significant reduction from the status-quo, and the status-quo corresponds to decades long losses in academic pay. This endangers the future of the UK academia."
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We remind all members that we want to have a large show of solidarity - as large as possible - for our colleagues across the city. Please join us next Wednesday!
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5 days ago
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
6 days ago
Be like Lenka from UoN and Marek from
@ducu.bsky.social
! Cast your ballot in
@UCU.org.uk
's national industrial action campaign today!
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University and College Union (UCU)
6 days ago
At a time when our society sees so much division, we need our colleges more than ever. Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago. Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
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Another story about university leadership appears in the Leicester Gazette:
www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...
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De Montfort University threatened to report staff to Prevent in response to online meeting
Exclusive: the troubled university is facing allegations of stifling free speech, in yet another spat over job cuts
https://www.leicester.news/de-montfort-university-threatened-to-report-staff-to-prevent-in-response-to-online-meeting/
16 days ago
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DMU UCU is sad to announce the passing of Alan Ryan, our former branch chair and a beloved colleague and comrade to many. Please see the link below for information on funeral arrangements.
alan-james-ryan.muchloved.com
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Tribute to Alan Ryan, 1954 - 2025
Dedicated to the memory of Alan Ryan
https://alan-james-ryan.muchloved.com/
17 days ago
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Loughborough University UCU
23 days ago
The
@ucu.org.uk
"We are the University" ballots will be posted to members on Monday. Look out for a pink envelope at your registered address arriving next week. We encourage all members to vote and make their voice heard.
#WeAreTheUniversity
#LboroUCU
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Private Eye once again reporting on the DMU leadership. Credit to the Leicester Gazette
@leicestergazette.leicester.news
who first broke the story.
about 1 month ago
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Leicester UCU
about 1 month ago
Day 2 - more sunshine and happy faces on the pickets!
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Joseph Choonara
about 2 months ago
Superb Rally Against Redundancies at the University of Leicester, with hundreds of staff, students and supporters.
@leicesterucu.bsky.social
begins its strike on Monday.
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Our branch is proud to stand with our colleagues at
@leicesterucu.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
about 2 months ago
Strike starts TODAY!!! Branch members will be picketing from 8 to 11 today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at UP's west, south, and north entrance and Jubilee's main entrance on Derby road. Come show your support!
#StopTheCuts
#SaveHE
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Our friends at
@leicesterucu.bsky.social
are holding a rally tomorrow at 1pm. All DMU UCU members who are in the area, please consider stopping by to show solidarity!
about 2 months ago
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Unite UCU
about 2 months ago
Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how. How would you react?
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
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Leicester UCU
about 2 months ago
Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October. Support our striking members, donate to the fighting fund if you're able. More details here:
www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...
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Oxford Brookes UCU
about 2 months ago
Our branch secretary,
@stuartwhigham.bsky.social
, explains why our members should vote yes ā and yes ā in the local ballot. Stuart outlines the impact that wider cuts to workload tariffs will have on our Associate Lecturer colleagues.
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
about 2 months ago
Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.
#StopTheCuts
#SaveHE
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University and College Union (UCU)
about 2 months ago
Staff at
@uniofleicester.bsky.social
to strike for three weeks over plans to slash hundreds of jobs
www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...
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Three weeks of strikes announced for university staff
Entire degrees could be axed
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/strikes-announced-leicester-university-amid-10495600
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QM_UCU
about 2 months ago
As a union, we have been fighting employersā attempts at making 100% pay deductions for ASOS legal since 2019. As a branch, weāve been at the forefront of that fight since 2022. Our own union going against our policies, workersā interest, and legal cases hurts. Letter:
qmucu.org/2025/09/12/l...
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Caren Frosch
about 2 months ago
We donāt want to strike. We want managers to sit down with us so we can work together to find alternative solutions!
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This would surely be dependent on retaining all the academic staff across both institutions?
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about 2 months ago
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Thanks again to
@leicestergazette.leicester.news
for following up on this story. £5m spent on consultants.
www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...
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De Montfort University spent over £5m on consultants in five years
Exclusive: Campaigners question why huge sums are being handed to multibillion-pound companies when staff's jobs are on the line
https://www.leicester.news/de-montfort-university-spends-over-5m-on-consultants-over-five-years/
about 2 months ago
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Katrina Navickas
2 months ago
Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.
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We sent solidarity to our colleagues at Kent and Greenwich, we are stunned that the news broke to them this morning at the same time as the rest of us
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about 2 months ago
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Solidarity with our colleagues in Sheffield!
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2 months ago
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Solidarity with our East Midlands colleagues. We are also experiencing this loss at present, with more to come. UK HE is in a terrible state and some urgent action is needed.
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3 months ago
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QM_UCU
4 months ago
So, just to reiterate: PLEASE REGULATE THE USE OF EXTERNAL CONSULTANCIES, Government. We all had a good laugh today, but it wasn't worth the millions this will have cost in tuition fee money going to some consultancy that is about to do exactly the same two towns over.
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Leicester Gazette
4 months ago
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A student revolution begins the fightback at DMU
Plus: Leicesterās stripped back Diwali celebrations could harm a āmajor economic lifelineā for local shops and restaurants.
https://www.leicester.news/a-student-revolution-begins-the-fightback-at-dmu/
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QM_UCU
4 months ago
Unaccountable management, undisciplined external spending, avoidably risky financial decisions: a pattern repeated all acros
#UKHE
, though sadly starkly present
@ucudmu.bsky.social
. Brilliantly pulled together here, however devasting the read.
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A statement from the recent DMU Town Hall (with alt text - apologies for past omissions)...
4 months ago
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Solidarity with our excellent colleagues at BCU!
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4 months ago
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BCU UCU
4 months ago
Thank you to South and City College Birmingham
@ucu.org.uk
rep and FE NEC member Saffi who brought support to us at our lobby of the
@mybcu.bsky.social
governors meeting. Draws attention to cuts to adult education and university cuts as part of a wider program of attacks on student access to support
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BCU UCU
4 months ago
šØ Lobby the BCU governors! šØ On Wed 16th BCU governors are meeting for an update on the current review, which has put 342 staff at risk of redundancy & cuts student support in multiple ways. Join our lobby: 1pm outside Parkside Building Bring your solidarity and your sun cream!
#SaveBCU
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"We need more investment in the arts education, not less"
www.leicester.news/the-lack-of-...
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āThe lack of inspiration is tangibleā: How staff redundancies are reshaping art at DMU
The ongoing job cuts at the university are changing the way students learn.
https://www.leicester.news/the-lack-of-inspiration-is-tangible-how-staff-redundancies-are-reshaping-art-at-dmu/
4 months ago
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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her)
4 months ago
.
@bcu-ucu.bsky.social
members have been amazing: stepping up as buddies to accompany at risk colleagues, joining drop-ins not just to get advice but to offer support, s - and - voting overwhelmingly to escalate strike action as we approach a new year if there is no movement in our dispute.
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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her)
4 months ago
Beyond busy with amazing
@bcu-ucu.bsky.social
as we fight a 340+ attack on jobs & ongoing dispute over performance management against a backdrop of suddenly imposed workload-increasing policy changes at same time as shrinking teams with over 200 "silent redundancies" through MARS.
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Today we sent an open letter to DMU Leadership asking, once again, for them to engage in a good faith consultation process.
4 months ago
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"De Montfort University is part of Leicester. Do not let us lose this."
4 months ago
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"Maths and economics and business are clearly not Normingtons strong points"
4 months ago
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"as a student from a poor family...my De Montfort fees in Leicester are paying for a campus in Dubai that has state of the art facilities"
4 months ago
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The VC continues to double down on the Dubai plan, but the comments tell their own story. Defend DMU!
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/teachin...
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Teaching students overseas āmore vital than everā, says DMU v-c
Ability to run courses and researchĀ in Leicester relies on income from international operations, leader warns after criticism of expansion plans
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/teaching-students-overseas-more-vital-ever-says-dmu-v-c#node-comments
4 months ago
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UCU Newcastle University
4 months ago
A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
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QM_UCU
4 months ago
The List in meme-format:
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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DMU has made it back into Private Eye's latest edition thanks to the legal situation around its Dubai campus. As noted by
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
the apparent lack of due diligence on this matter is deeply troubling.
5 months ago
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Thank you to all who attended our protest against DMU cuts held at Trinity House this afternoon, students, staff, members of the public. The message was clear:
#DefendDMU
5 months ago
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The results of the De Montfort university UCU branch's formal No Confidence ballot have now been confirmed: a resounding 90% voted no confidence in the VC and the ULB This is the fourth significant No Confidence vote passed during the current round of proposed redundancies
5 months ago
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QM_UCU
5 months ago
Mindblowing turn of events. Hard not to have some questions about a university walking away after a partner put £42 million into a project, and then trying to dispute whether the English or the Dubai courts matter. How is anyone going to go into partnerships with DMU from here on on?
#UKHE
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