LSBU is one of those universities, which is why our dispute is of national significance. To add insult to injury, the latest version of the 'Academic Transformation' plan presents this as an 'individual decision' that new staff can now make: join a crappy DC scheme or join no scheme at all. Even.

The dispute is not just about LSBU, but defending nationally negotiated academic contracts, resisting fragmentation of the workforce & protecting the future of academic employment across the sector. Help by donating to the strike fund, send a message of solidarity, share our messages, & visit us ✊

King's College London recently announced the acquisition of Cranfield University. We talked to the Times Higher Ed about it and what it says about the HE sector: t.co/2ZZnsXlz1S

📋🇵🇸AGENDA for the National Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: Thursday 12 February 2026 📋🇵🇸

@qmucu.bsky.social @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social

helpful thread here. And sign up for the meeting on 12 January at 3:30: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @sheffielducu.bsky.social isn't going through this on their own!

📢📢Please re-share and amplify 📢📢 in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against Israel’s scholasticide @qmucu.bsky.social @birminghamucu.bsky.social @ucuimperial.bsky.social @ucukent.bsky.social @lboroucu.bsky.social

✊ That's the close of the ballots! ❤️ Well done to everyone involved in the GTVO efforts, speaking to members, and getting your ballots in! It's been a big collective effort! 💬 We should get the results for both the national and the local on Monday - so more soon!

So glad we're hosting this again. I'll also be speaking about the Get the Vote Out campaign for our branch's local dispute on academic freedom around Palestine, protection of staff, divestment from genocide and essential governance reform at KCL. Join us!

Solidarity to our striking comrades @ucuimperial.bsky.social !!

The final leg of the Campus Voices for Palestine tour concludes at KCL this Friday 28 November with a special event on 🌟Confronting Scholasticide🌟 you can sign up via this link ➡️ luma.com/go15utyg?loc...

‼️📮This is your reminder that tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) is the last day to safely return your postal ballot in the national dispute. 🧵Here’s why this dispute matters for us at Goldsmiths:

🚨🚨 Calling on all KCL UCU members: TODAY is the last ⭐️safe day⭐️ to post your ballots for both national and local disputes! VOTE today, VOTE yes and put them in the POST!! 📦 📦 ➡️ ALSO if your ballot papers arrive later than today please contact us as we can deliver in person on Friday afternoon 💫💫

🗣️ A rally is taking place TOMORROW Wednesday 26 Nov at 3pm outside KCL’s Strand building in solidarity with KCL student Usama Ghanem who fled persecution on Egypt and is now facing deportation after having his visa revoked by the College for his Palestine solidarity. Please join!

Keep it up folks! Vote now and vote yes for industrial action in the national @ucu and local KCL UCU ballots! If you have not received your ballot there is still time to order a replacement TODAY! The last ‘safe’ day to post your ballot papers is 26 November! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl

As part of Campus Voices for Palestine KCL UCU is delighted to invite you to ‘Confronting Scholasticide’ on Friday 28 November 5-6.30pm at KCL’s Waterloo campus. Speakers include @shahinazgeneid.bsky.social Dr Ahmed Abu Shaban and Bayan Haddad luma.com/go15utyg?loc...

How are the national UCU and local KCL UCU ballots connected? Insights from our KCL UCU health and safety Officer @saiogradin.bsky.social #wearekcl #wearetheuniversity

‘Shared values?’ This is meaningless when your university invests in genocide. VOTE in our local ballot for Palestine and against this wilful silence against oppression www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/affi... ➡️ kcl.web.ucu.org.uk

#wearekcl #wearetheuniversity

🗣️🗣️How is the UCU National ballot connected to and distinct from KCL UCU’s local ballot? An explainer from @jamiewoodcock.com KCL UCU’s branch chair ⬇️

On November 2 we co-hosted a panel on freedom of expression on Palestine together with the National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social to protest over 270 Gazan journalist colleagues who have been slaughtered ⬇️

🗳️🗳️🗳️ hi comrades! A reminder to vote soon and #voteyes in BOTH the national @ucu.org.uk AND the local KCL UCU ballot! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl

❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza ⬇️

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL

🗣️🗣️ calling all anti fascist educators and union members: TOMORROW 8 October at 8pm join the London Regional UCU online organising meeting about ‘Education. Immigration, and Racism’ it’s time to stand up to far right extremism and fascism in Britain 🗣️🗣️ ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We've written to KCL Management urging them to urgently lobby UK Government to enable safe passage for Chevening Scholarship students from Gaza to the UK. Considering the level of institutional complicity that KCL has with the genocide, it's really the LEAST they can do. See our statement below.👇

An open letter to KCL management, condemning punitive misconduct disciplinaries against Palestine Encampment students, is currently circulating with 250+ signatories. We copy the text of the letter ⬇️

Not surprising to me that King’s College London is in this shameful league table @kclucu.bsky.social

@kclucu.bsky.social thanks to vice chair Pete Chonka for speaking @nujlfb.bsky.social www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2507parli...

Results are now in on our consultative e-ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding ➡️ we PASSED the threshold for a valid result with 🌟91% 🌟sharing our concern that management is not doing enough to protect us and our rights kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...

This may not be about you, but it is happening to the people around you. Are you comfortable with that? Please vote in the KCL UCU e-ballot on academic freedom and safeguarding

Our new findings would be of particular interest to @sussexucu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social and @cardiffucu.bsky.social

Great analysis from @parkesland.bsky.social on the connection between attacks on Palestine solidarity and attacks on trans rights. Relevant to our wider mobilising as a union and our current dispute about academic freedom and safeguarding at KCL UCU

The Starmer regime decided, on the same day, to proscribe Palestine Action and to impose trans segregation on the Parliamentary estate. These are not unrelated events.

Trouble at King's College London ⤵️ Join a union. Stand together. 🧵 ⤵️

Over the last year, your colleagues, comrades and friends at KCL have been harassed for defending Palestinian rights, upholding academic freedom and union activism. THIS is why we are balloting members NOW. But what exactly has been happening?

Solidarity with colleagues at KCL! kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...

📣📣 the e-ballot for KCL UCU’s dispute on academic freedom and staff safeguarding is now open 📣📣 members: you will receive an email from yoursay with the link. Please use your vote! @ucu.org.uk #academicfreedom

🇵🇸🗣️TOMORROW 17 June there will be protests at 3 sites supplying Israel’s F-35 fighter jets. Our branch supports the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Please join in Havant, Rochester and Sheffield if you can. Logistic and transport info ➡️ palestinecampaign.org/events/prote... #armsembargo

We have been developing a new KCL UCU website, independent of the KCL Union pages, hosted by the national union. This is still in development, with more pages on our campaigns, resources and news coming soon. Take a 👀 and let us know what to include ➡️

📢📢📢Last week at our General Meeting KCL UCU voted to hold an online consultative ballot over management’s failure to protect academic freedom and safeguard staff from targeted harassment ⭐️The indicative ballot will open week beginning June 16⭐️ @UCU #academicfreedom

🗣️As of this week we have voted to open a trade dispute with the government’s Secretary of State for education over the higher education funding model. There is an organising meeting on Tuesday 3 June, 6-7pm. Register below ⬇️ novaramedia.com/2025/05/26/uni… lu.ma/zs6bklhz?local���

Read more about the UCU’s new trade dispute with the Secretary of State for education over the crisis cause by the UK higher education funding model ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🇵🇸 ✊ Yesterday at our KCL UCU General Meeting members voted in favour of 2️⃣ motions calling for ⭐️ a consultative ballot on possible industrial action to protect academic freedom; and ⭐️reaffirming our commitment to campaigning for KCL to divest from genocide. Full wording ⬇️

‼️Please join us for a very important General Meeting Wednesday at 1pm on Teams or in K2.31.‼️We will be discussing ⬇️ ⭐️King’s Strategy 2030 ⭐️Management’s hostile response to the Palestine encampment ⭐️Possible escalation of our industrial action on academic freedom

Truer today than ever before!

Moving towards a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education! UCU Congress voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the Higher Education funding crisis. Motion & further info: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... JOIN to discuss next steps 3 June, 6pm: lu.ma/zs6bklhz 🧵

Motion brought by @ucuessex.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social, Oxford, Kingston, UAL #UCU2025 #UCUCongress

Extending a vote of thanks to all KCL UCU branch members who are representing us at #ucu congress in Liverpool in the coming days!