TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO POST YOUR BALLOT!!!!

🗳️ Reminder: the ballot is still open! 🗳️ If you haven’t posted yet, you have until tomorrow (28/11, up to the final postal collection time) to send your ballot. Hurry up — and fingers crossed it makes it to Civica HQ in time for the count! 📮✨

TODAY IS THE LAST SAFE DAY TO POST YOUR BALLOT!

TOMORROW (26/11) — The second equalities drop-in of the term will happen online from 10-12 (link in 📧). All GUCU members facing equalities-related issues at work (and particularly those with protected characteristics) are welcome to come by and chat in confidence with our wonderful Equalities team.

‼️📮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:

Support @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social fight to save their TPS pensions! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

⌛️🗳️REMINDER that the deadline for requesting a replacement ballot is this Sunday 23 NOVEMBER 2025! yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

Solidarity Screening today! 🎥✨ Featuring An Orange from Jaffa & ضو – Light, followed by a Q&A with director Ahmad Abu Monshar + GOLD SU’s Shada Abdalqader. 📍 RHB Cinema 🕕 Fri 21 Nov, from 6PM 💸 Pay-what-you-can (all funds to Palestinian Student Fundraiser) Snacks welcome! ♥️🍉 luma.com/5ymk9hud

⌛️🗳️REMINDER that the deadline for requesting a replacement ballot is this Sunday 23 NOVEMBER 2025! yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

NEXT THURSDAY: After last week’s £11m+ deficit announcement, we are coming together again in in-person, all-staff meeting. We should not be where we are, and we must be clear about who is responsible for this mess — and that more cuts are not the way out. 🕐 1–2pm 📍 RHB 300

Happening tomorrow (Wed 19/11)! Join our Health & Safety team for an Invisible Work workshop. How can we make invisible/unrecognised/unpaid work visible and accounted for? How do we protect ourselves from it? 🕒 3–4:30pm, in person — room details in your 📧.

REMINDER! WHY WE VOTE YES/YES:

Have you voted yet? There are 10 days left before the ballot closes (28/11) — and the last safe day to post your ballot is 26/11! As we look ahead to possible local action, it’s important to show our strength and win this ballot! #WeAreTheUniversity #UCU

This Wed (12/11) the first Campus Connect since Frances Corner’s removal will take place — something might be moving, and we must be prepared. Make sure you’re signed up and in the room! Then join us for: 🕓 Branch meeting: 4–5PM (in-person) 🎉 Branch social at the SU: 6PM onwards Room details in📧

Have you voted yet? Window to request a ballot replacement closes on 23/11, and ballot ends on 26/11. Useful links and timeline here: www.ucu.org.uk/WeAreTheUniv... Don't wait for the last minute, and post your ballot 📩💗

Managers cite concern for students in everything they do, but never actually prioritise student opinion or voices in any of their decision making. They do irreparable harm to student courses and turn around to staff and ask: ‘right: how can we improve student satisfaction and recruitment?’

Being disabled shouldn’t mean you’re on a lower wage, or that you’re afraid to ask for support at work because it could hit you financially. Having a reasonable adjustment should never lead to a pay cut. But this is what’s happening to some UCU staff right now. Short 🧵

Not sure how to talk to your colleagues about the UCU national ballot? Here’s our top 3 reasons to vote YES/YES:

GUCU events this term 💥 Info session for members + quiz night (12/11), workload (19/11) & equalities drop-in (26/11), and a solidarity film screening (21/11)! 📧 Check your emails for room details & Zoom links. #GoldsmithsUCU

Need a replacement ballot? You can request one now through November 23. Don’t wait too long—make sure your vote counts! Last safe date to cast your ballot is November 26. yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

UCU NATIONAL BALLOT ⚠️ These are all the important dates you need to keep in mind: 🗳️ Ballot open: Mon 20 Oct – Fri 28 Nov 2025 📮 Post vote by: Wed 26 Nov 🔁 Replacement ballots: 27 Oct – 23 Nov 🕔 Register/update membership by 20 Nov, 5pm For info on the dispute: goldsmithsucu.org/2025/10/22/u...

@ucu.org.uk & other HE unions have launched a national dispute against @ucea-leadership.bsky.social . Let us be clear: current demands won’t fix the root crisis — our broken funding model — but this ballot is a step toward a Trade Dispute. Here's why we vote YESx2: goldsmithsucu.org/2025/10/22/u...

THIS WED 💪 Challenging Overwork — open meeting Workloads out of control? You’re not alone. Come share your experience and learn about the tools we’re developing to challenge unsafe workloads collectively. 📅 Wed 22 Oct 🕒 3–4pm 📍room in 📩 A day to share & organise ✊

🚨UPDATE: We are delighted to welcome more scholars from Palestine to Goldsmiths. Our branch is committed to supporting them in every way possible. If you’re able, please consider donating to our fundraiser and sharing it widely🍉 chuffed.org/project/1496...

🚨Today we passed a motion asking for red lines for the 25/26 HE dispute: ✊ Moratorium on redundancies & course closures ✊ Enforce national agreements & fair pay for all ✊ Sector-wide 35-hrs week, no pay loss We want to win this dispute on our terms! bit.ly/4nIKgQF

Here's our October event calendar. Please check your email for room details and zoom links ;)

Join us on Wed 08/10 (3-4PM) for an in person meeting to discuss the upcoming national ballot, and how it fits in the strategy for a trade dispute for a just and sustainable funding model. No more fixes. What we urgently need is a real solution to the structural crisis in HE.

Today, our branch passed a motion in solidarity with @leicesterucu.bsky.social, donating £500 to their strike fund as they fight redundancies. When so many of our branches are under attack, cross-branch solidarity is key 🫂https://goldsmithsucu.org/2025/09/29/solidarity-motion-with-leicester-ucu/

Our branch STRONGLY condemns UCU’s use of punitive pay deductions—a union-busting tactic denounced by our very conference!—against its own staff. We stand with @uniteucu.bsky.social and call on national leadership to act with dignity and negotiate in good faith. goldsmithsucu.org/2025/09/29/m...

With the UNHRC declaring Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide, today we passed a motion calling on the UK government to open evacuation routes for Gazan students with UK university offers, and to stop subjecting them to extraordinarily harsh visa rules. goldsmithsucu.org/2025/09/29/m...

Today we passed a motion donating £500 to UCL cleaners’ strike fund (w @iwgbunion.bsky.social ) as they fight mass redundancies threatened by UCL & Sodexo. Cross-union solidarity is our best defence against attacks on our working conditions! goldsmithsucu.org/2025/09/29/m...

Day two of picketing today! We will once again be at the north, west, and south entrances of UP and the Derby rd entrance of Jubilee campus from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Come show your support, stand in solidarity, and learn all about what and why we are fighting! #StopTheCuts

Absolutely insulting that our own union is trying the dirties trick to get workers to declare participation in order to deduct 100% of their wages for Action Short of Strike. Thanks for making it 100 times harder to challenge that if and when university managers implement those tricks.

We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa

Who’d have thought that UCU senior management would look at the punitive strategies used by university management in local disputes and think, 'Ah, that’s a brillitant way to attempt some strike-breaking'?

Thanks to everyone who’s already donated to our fundraisers for incoming Palestinian students from Gaza! We’re halfway to our goal in just a few days. Reposting the links in this thread for anyone who had trouble accessing them. 🍉🍉🍉

🆘🍉 As the genocide continues, a small number of Palestinian students will evacuate the Gaza Strip for the UK, including four due to join us at Goldsmiths for a.a. 25/26. Israeli authorities are forcing them to leave all they have behind, and they need our practical solidarity. Please donate!

Powerful statement from BLM UK on the rise of Britain’s far right and Saturday’s march, including notice of an important public meeting on 28 October ukblm.org/news/defeat-...

Solidarity to these amazing comrades!

🚨🚨🚨 GUCU’s banner will be here on Wednesday 16/09! Our excellent exec member Natacha will be talking from the stage about resisting attacks on trans lives in HE and beyond. Please join us if you can!

Sometimes solutions are easy @drjogrady.bsky.social & @ucu.org.uk Let’s sit down and talk without conditions or threats that damage everyone. It’s time to resolve this dispute. Our statement, with support from the following branch committees:

🔥 Third ballot win in 18 months: 76% YES on 77% turnout for @uniteucu.bsky.social members! UCU Management’s response? Threats & intimidation 🤦

Ballot papers drop today for local industrial action to defend jobs at the University of Sheffield against redundancy and further workload pressures. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...

🧵1/ Our branch just passed a motion condemning the stealth closure of the MA in Black British History. We did this to demand accountability — for the future of the MA and for the College’s promises on racial justice and equality. shorturl.at/gIUVG

Goldsmiths wants to use fire and rehire tactics to push out 3 valued Art Dept staff — ending contracts, then cycling new people into the same work — breaching their own HR policy. We passed a motion demanding reinstatement & respect for staff rights. Read here: goldsmithsucu.org/2025/07/31/e...

We stand with those resisting intimidation. We reject this crackdown on political speech. We call on unions, students, and staff to mobilise in solidarity. 🛑 Protest the NUS Lead and Change Conference: 📍 29–31 July 📣 National demo: 29 July, 12pm #NotMyNUS #FreePalestine #DefendStudentVoices

Over 70 elected SU officers are facing threats, bans & intimidation from NUS leadership after signing an open letter condemning the NUS’s silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, UK institutional complicity & the suppression of student activism. #NotMyNUS 🧵👇

We stand in solidarity with staff at Drumbeat Outreach. Cuts to this vital, neurodivergent-led autism service in Lewisham will harm children, families & communities. We ask @lewisham.gov.uk & @brendadacres.bsky.social to halt the cuts & meet with staff! Full motion: goldsmithsucu.org/2025/07/16/s...

Our exec committee is appalled to see nonviolent direct action in the face of genocide treated as terrorism. We condemn the government’s authoritarian attempt to ban @palaction.bsky.social, as well as the government's ongoing support for genocide. goldsmithsucu.org/2025/07/02/e...

We stand with @newcastleucu.bsky.social in their fight against redundancies. We have just passed a motion to support our comrades as they supported us so generously last year. Solidarity! goldsmithsucu.org/2025/06/11/s... Job cuts harm both students & staff.