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!

We continue to be deeply concerned by management’s threats to forcibly remove the Palestine Solidarity Encampment. A letter has been drafted by branch members in support of the Encampment students. Please consider signing it ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

KCL UCU sends its solidarity to the students who have, since Monday evening, re-occupied King’s Strand campus quad to protest our university’s continued complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and oppression of the Palestinian people. Our full statement ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The next National Demonstration - Nakba 77 for Palestine is taking place this coming Saturday17 May in London at 12pm. The Trade Union bloc will assemble from 12pm at Cleopatra’s Needle on Victoria Embankment. Please come and help with the KCL UCU banner

The student encampment is still in place. Please do attend the student staff assembly in the Strand Quad today at 1pm ✊🇵🇸

📢 The next TUC-sponsored Workplace Day of Action for Palestine is this Thursday 15 May (12.30pm) on Nakba Day. KCL UCU will hold a rally outside the Strand Building. Join us to stand for justice in Palestine 📢https://images.app.goo.gl/nJRNV3yxKYpfWgUq7

‼️KCL management has demanded that the student Palestine encampment disband by 10 today or face disciplinary action. This is an unacceptable repression of their fundamental rights to protest and freedom of speech. We have written to management to call for dialogue over coercion

🗣️ The students of KCL have launched a re-occupation of the quad triangle at Strand campus in renewed rejection of the university’s complicity with Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. There is a staff-student assembly tomorrow Wed 14 May at 1pm. All welcome.

The branch is supporting this vigil for Dr Adnan al-Bursh on Wednesday 14 May at 6pm in Ruskin Park (SE5 9AW). Dr Al-Bursh was a renowned orthopaedic surgeon and fellow of KCL who was tortured to death in Israeli custody last year. We will remember him

Would you like to become a KCL UCU caseworker? The branch is hosting a training session on casework on 19 May 2-5pm followed by a social event. Sign up here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... We are each other’s strength

🗣️🗣️As Israel moves to annex Gaza KCL is hosting this week the ‘London Defence Conference’ an event sponsored by BAE systems and other suppliers of the Israeli military. Join the student-led protest at 4pm on Friday outside Bush House. 🗣️🗣️

Join UCU TODAY Saturday 10 May at 1pm at Bessborough Gardens (Millbank) to call on government to change the HE funding model and stop 🛑 university job cuts! Can you help the branch with the KCL UCU banner? Get in touch!

📢📢 @ucu is holding a major public rally tomorrow Saturday 10 May to call on the Labour government and employers to change the #hefundingmodel and STOP 🛑 job cuts in the U.K. university sector. Meet at Bessborough Gardens off Millbank at 1pm 📢📢

And with that, the Historians for Trans Rights open letter reaches *500 signatures* in just 18 hours. Thank you to every one who signed or shared. ✊🫂🏳️‍⚧️

Happy International workers day! Onwards, onwards there are still rights to protect and fight for ✊

This week, our branch passed a motion in defence of the right to protest on campuses. The motion called on this branch to support this important online event happening tomorrow (May 1st) at 5pm. See you there!

Event: Hands off our universities // Defend campus protest // Solidarity with Gaza - 1 May ucw4palestine.org/2025/04/21/e... via @UCW4Pal

🗣️🗣️Our next KCL UCU General Meeting is happening ⭐️TOMORROW 30 May 1-3pm ⭐️ with a pre-meet 1-1.30 for people who have not been to a General Meeting before. Please do come along, online on Teams or in person. The more the merrier!🗣️🗣️

⭐️TODAY Monday 28 April, 1-2pm at St Brides the Journalists’ Church, off Fleet Street ⭐️Please join the London Freelance Branch for a vigil to mark the damage done to workers in war zones worldwide: www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2504iwmd....

*Branch anti-casualisation workshop* Join us on Friday 2nd of May for a workshop on anti-casualisation (2-4pm) ❔Open to all members on a precarious contract or an open ended contract who want to support the campaign. 📝 Register here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

A reminder for our members that UCU National Congress is taking place May 24-26 and 4 delegates are attending from our branch to represent the positions of the branch. Please contact us re: motions to debate at our next branch meeting on April 30 ➡️

Always good to remember our wins as a union and a union branch. Because we do fight, and we do win! ✊✊✊

📣📣📣An important event about rebuilding higher education in Gaza, organised by the Refugee Crisis Foundation and hosted by KCL, is taking place this ❗️Saturday 26 April❗️get your tickets here:

📣📣📣An important event about rebuilding higher education in Gaza, organised by the Refugee Crisis Foundation and hosted by KCL, is taking place this ❗️Saturday 26 April❗️get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/refug...

The Dr Alrayyes Scholarship is to provide Palestinian students with a one-year Postgraduate Master’s Degree in a health or health science subject In honour of our alum Maisara Alrayyes who was murdered in Gaza by Israel in Nov 2023 @kclucu.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/the-dr-maisa...

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social reporting here on the recent higher education and funding committee

Solidarity with @uonucu.bsky.social fighting 250 job cuts at University of Nottingham