If you haven’t completed our #workload survey yet, please do NOW! We’ve extended the deadline & need as many responses as possible. More responses = more data = more pressure on managers to reduce workload. Search for link in your inbox or write to the Branch Secretary if you can’t find it!

London Metropolitan University has announced plans to cut more than 100 academic roles, in a move UCU has described as a “reckless assault on inclusive education”. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports

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

Our comrades at @ucucapitalcitycoll.bsky.social are on strike this week as part of the nationally coordinated FE action over pay, workloads and national binding bargaining. Get yourselves down to show your support. We are glad to be making a £200 donation to their strike fund.

Sheffield management have withdrawn their threat of a lockout for w/c 5 Jan to facilitate further discussions with our excellent @sheffielducu.bsky.social negotiators. Massive thanks to the ucu team, and to everyone for having our backs. It’s not over yet, but maybe there’s a path to get there!

Victory to @ucu.org.uk members at Sheffield Hallam & University of Sheffield Management must wake up and listen to staff, vanity projects and six figure salaries wont cut it! Our universities are a economic lynchpin for our region, and an engine of social mobility Solidarity to UCU members!

Thank you to @ucu.org.uk members at Sheffield University for welcoming us on their picket lines this morning. Solidarity in their fight against redundancies. Managment meed to stop playing games and make meaningful offers. Victory to UCU members in Sheffield!

Who doesn't love a picket pup!

We can do this together. Post it. Post it. Post it. #wearetheuniversity

🚨 TODAY is the LAST ‼️ day to request a replacement ballot if you have not already done so! Do it NOW if you still need to - at the link! #WeAreTheUniversity yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

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...

Look at those graphs — then get your ballot in ASAP! Next Wednesday is your LAST safe day to post, but don’t wait until then!

🚨 Reminder‼️ If you never received or have lost your ballot, SUNDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER is the LAST day to request a replacement! Here is the link to the ballot replacement form: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu... Don’t delay! Get your replacement now & post your ballot immediately! #WeAreTheUniversity

It is Transgender Awareness Week. Trans rights remain under attack in the UK. Our branch believes that trans people are who they say they are, and trans rights are human rights!

We must stick together! Chat to your colleagues and vote YES! Then tell us you’ve voted!

No university is immune to the devastating trend sweeping the sector! Return your ballot to show Vice Chancellors that #WeAreTheUniversity!

🚨 You have 2 weeks from today to request a replacement ballot. 🗳️ Don’t wait - do it now if you still haven’t received yours! If you have but have not returned it, do so now! Last safe day to post is 26th Nov! ✅ To those who’ve already voted - thank you! 🙏🏼 Let’s show managers #WeAreTheUniversity

YES! We love to see the solidarity from our LSE colleagues! Let’s keep those votes pouring in!

🚨 Reminder to post your ballot! Don’t wait - drop it in the postbox today! If you haven’t received yours, request a replacement ballot NOW: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu... If you’ve already voted, let UCU know: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu... #WeAreTheUniversity

We were glad to welcome Jo Grady to our branch last week to fire up our members and get the vote out! Remember to send your ballot in TODAY — and order a replacement if you haven’t received one yet! #WeAreTheUniversity

🚨 GETTING THE VOTE OUT ACROSS THE UK! 🚨 This Thursday, join us LIVE as branches from every corner of the country share how they’re driving the YES vote home. 💪📮 🗓 Thursday 13 November, 7PM 📺 Watch on UCU X and YouTube VOTE NOW. VOTE YES. #WeAreTheUniversity #UCULive

🚨 Reminder to post your ballot! Don’t wait - drop it in the postbox today! If you haven’t received yours, request a replacement ballot NOW: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu... If you’ve already voted, let UCU know: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu... #WeAreTheUniversity

Hospital workers to receive thousands of pounds in back pay after strikes www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

#UCU2025 congress has passed a motion to prepare to raise a formal dispute with the Education Secretary over the devastating funding crisis in higher education. Our message is clear: if Labour won’t intervene, we will. #UCU2025 #ProtectEducationNow #UnionPower #Post16Crisis #HigherEducation

In £140m cuts, a £90m cut to staff is not only disproportionate, unfair and a failure to uphold the law on preventing redundancies, but could also seriously depress the University's income. Staff are sounding the alarm: We will not stand for this! www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

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Now, more than ever, it is important to: JOIN A UNION!

📣It is our firm stance that protecting students and staff at UEA requires us to fight compulsory redundancies with every tool we have. 🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us. 🚩Together we can #SaveUEA

The idea you can cut your way to profitability is baffling - says UCU @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.heraldscotland.com/news/2517000...

There is power in coming together and acting as a collective in moments of crisis, and we need to act together to support all our colleagues who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy. Join us on the picket this Weds 26th. #SaveUEA www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uea-sta... @ucu.org.uk

We are out picketing this week to fight the threat of redundancies. Come find us on the picket line Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

UCU - University of Bradford staff back strike action over 300 job cull www.ucu.org.uk/article/1394...

Up and at it early today! Plan is to be back on the line later this week and next. Strike fund here: www.pcs.org.uk/donate Solidarity! That’ll work 😎✊😎 @tuc.org.uk @muel73.bsky.social @lgsmigrants.bsky.social @protestfamily.com @weshallovercome1.bsky.social

UCU - Industrial action warning over cuts at Edinburgh University www.ucu.org.uk/article/1395...

Kingston University's world-leading philosophy centre faces closure as management announces plans to shut entire humanities department. We stand with our Kingston University branch & condemn the “barrage of closures to courses and entire departments” We must #STOPtheCuts

@ducuuo.bsky.social #SaveDundeeUni

Staff shocked by threat of job cuts at Truro and Penwith College despite having millions in reserve. Management needs to start working protecting jobs and student provision. Regional Support Official Alison Chapman discussed with BBC Cornwall this morning 👇

Given the mass-exit of colleagues via voluntary severance this Summer, the workload of Professional Service colleagues is about to get even worse, despite already being unmanageable. So just a reminder that ucu isn't just a 'lecturers' union'. pdf version: qmucu.org/wp-content/u...

Week 2 of our industrial action to save jobs at the University of Dundee begins now. Come and join or visit our friendly picket line at the Tower Building, every day from 8am. Here’s what we have achieved in the first week.

After recent news from the Dept. of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge UCU is working with @unite0775m.bsky.social and Unison to launch the “Save the Vet School” Campaign! Find out more in our Open Letter (tinyurl.com/56sh4wyc), and please come to the rally by Senate House on Tuesday 4th March at 1pm!

📣 Our ballot for local industrial action in relation to staff cuts will open on Monday 24th Feb and run for five weeks. We are asking members to check your postal address is correct via MyUCU 📮 Expect another stellar GTVO campaign coming soon 💪 ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...

An important letter sent by a permanent member of staff which highlights the knock-on effects of the misuse of fixed-term contracts, and how solutions suddenly can be found once permanent colleagues speak up. A clear problem with a clear solution: https://buff.ly/4i5W2RK

Today is the 1st of 2 dispute resolution meetings for BCU UCU. Negotiators will be repeating the call from members for: - No redundancies - Proper negotiation on new performance measures - Commitment to the future of the diversity & richness of research that informs teaching at BCU.

Solidarity with Dundee UCU and Coco!

Join us and Coco on the picket line today at the front of the Tower. #PicketlinePets #SaveDundeeUni

300 jobs at risk at Newcastle University 🚨 Our members should not pay the price for vice-chancellors' inability to manage finances. @newcastleucu.bsky.social say enough is enough.

This afternoon, @ucu.org.uk informed the Vice Chancellor that we will be formally balloting for local industrial action at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in relation to proposed cuts to the staffing budget and the threats to staff jobs due to restructuring.