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Ten Reasons to Vote Yes in the @ucu.org.uk ballot 1⃣ 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀 A YES vote strengthens the hand of your elected negotiators and your union in the face of a set of employers making massive cuts in pay and jobs.

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." #SpotTheContradiction #VictoryToDundeeUCU

📣 UWS HAS RULED OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉

UWS BALLOT SUCCESS!!! ✊✊✊ 78/84% YES for industrial action/ASOS with a 62% turnout 🔥 UWS members - we have a meeting scheduled for Monday 12.30PM to discuss what this means and next steps. Please check your emails for the link and join! @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

Another lively picket from @eisunion.bsky.social UWS branch this morning! UCU members, Thursday is the LAST safe day to post your ballot - let’s make sure we can get out and join them to #protectourjobs & #saveouruniversity! ✊

Solidarity again with @eisunion.bsky.social UWS branch on the 2nd day of strike ✊ Great to see so many students standing in solidarity& refusing to cross the picket line! They know members are taking this action to defend our jobs, our university and our students! UCU members post your vote TODAY!

Pay uplift - Protect terms and conditions - Stop the redundancies This crisis is far bigger than a single branch: vote YES join the fight to save higher education ✊✊ @ucuscotland.bsky.social

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

Golden postbox for extra luck! UCU UWS members, you have 10 days to post your ballot - don’t miss the deadline ✊ Use your vote to stop the cuts, protect our jobs, and defend our students & our university!

No ifs, no buts, no education cuts! @eisunion.bsky.social EIS ULA UWS lunchtime rally begins at 12pm, Storie Street entrance. UCU members drop by to show your solidarity! ✊

UCU sends full solidarity to the EIS @eisunion.bsky.social striking workers at UWS today ✊ EIS members are striking to #stopthecuts and #defendourjobs at UWS. Join the lunchtime rally at 12pm!

And that’s another vote for the re-ballot!! Get yours in ASAP - don’t leave it to the last minute! Let’s do this ✊✊✊ @ucuscotland.bsky.social

📣 All out! Defend refugees at the Cladhan Hotel and support #Falkirk anti-racists this Sun 7th Sept. We need to keep up the fight and let the far-right know they are not welcome! #RefugeesWelcome 📣 Sun 7th Sept, 11am 📍Assemble Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk, FK1 1UF

One of our members had a very cute assistant to help post the ballot this morning! Get yours in before 25th September ✊✊✊ #babiesandballots @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

It’s re-ballot time! After an 88% YES vote that narrowly missed threshold by 4 (!!!) votes, our re-ballot is open! Post your ballot before 25th September! Let’s do this! ✊✊ @ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social

Ballot closes in just under 2 weeks - make sure to get yours posted in time! If you haven’t received one, contact the committee for a replacement. Let’s do this!! ✊✊✊

NAE PASARAN ✊✊✊

✊✊ Get your ballots posted!!

“UWS is a unique institution because it gives people like me a chance” Brilliant article that shows how damaging the proposed cuts at UWS will be to students: www.glasgowbell.co.uk/whats-going-... @glasgowbell.bsky.social @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

A ballot opened today at UWS, as the UCU branch there fights to save jobs and avoid compulsory redundancies! @ucu-uws.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.ucu.org.uk/article/1408...

Great to read our branch president, Jamie Hopkin, speaking out against the cuts in this article: “what is being proposed will damage UWS’s crucial missions of teaching, research and widening access to higher education”

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2529360... @ucu-uws.bsky.social #StopTheCuts

Ballot opens today! ✊✊✊

UCU Scotland: proud to support today’s Aye Welcome Refugees demo #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StopTheFarRight

See you there!! ✊✊

UCU Scotland is proud to support Saturday's @sutrscotland.bsky.social national demonstration in Glasgow: Aye Welcome Refugees - Stop the Far Right. Sat 21 June, assemble 12noon Barrowland Park and music and carnival from 2.30 at the Old Fruitmarket #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StopTheFarRight

UWS UCU will be there! See you on Saturday ✊✊

Hundreds marched through Newcastle today to say no to compulsory redundancies. From every corner of the UK, people showed up to protect jobs and the future of education. Thank you for standing in solidarity ✊ @newcastleucu.bsky.social

A delegation from our branch joined the strike rally in Newcastle - we stand in solidarity with striking workers standing up for the future of HE!

“We stand together and fight or fall apart alone” Right now in Newcastle, members from far and wide in solidarity ✊ UCU and PROUD

Huge solidarity to @newcastleucu.bsky.social having an amazing rally today + to all branches on strike/facing redundancies. All @ucu.org.uk post-16 education staff deserve job security and fair pay, essential for our regions’ prosperity. #NOredundancies #DefendHE #SpreadTheResistance #Solidarity

Solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social and all branches taking action in defence of jobs and conditions right now. We’re in Newcastle today for a national demo to #DefendHE #NoRedundancies #DefendEducation #StopTheCuts t.co/ZzwgiJ3gSs

We have arrived in Newcastle for the @ucu.org.uk demonstration @newcastleucu.bsky.social

Solidarity with everyone at the national demo at Newcastle to protest again the shocking cuts being imposed by their senior management. We stand with workers at Newcastle against the thoughtless damage being inflicted on their institution. #DefendHE #NOredundancies #SpreadTheResistance #Solidarity

We send full solidarity to Newcastle & all other branches being hit by these devastating cuts. UWS is at the beginning of a redundancy battle and while this is full of anger and anxiety, it is heartening to see branches organise to come together in solidarity and to coordinate a national response.

Our members are on strike for over 30 days, Solidarity in the form of donations to our hardship fund are VERY welcome! All details and a template motion can be found here. ncl.web.ucu.org.uk/newcastle-uc...

12pm today! #SpreadTheResistance

Way passed the threshold, #LincolnUCU members have smashed it! Unless #LincolnUniversity rule out #compulsoryredundancies, we will strike!

☀️@ucuscotland.bsky.social proudly joins the list of supporters mobilising for the national demonstration in Glasgow #AyeWelcomeRegufees #StopTheFarRight 🗓️Sat 21 June 📍Barrowland Park, 12noon @ucuglasgow.bsky.social @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @ucuaberdeen.bsky.social

Edinburgh Principal Sir Peter Mathieson flummoxed when asked what he earns. He’s had a 7.5% pay rise, makes more than the First Minister and UK PM combined and still “isn’t quite sure” what he’s paid. Meanwhile, staff face £140m cuts. @ucuscotland.bsky.social #ucu #CutTheCuts

We’re very proud to support the 21 June Glasgow demonstration - be there! #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StandUpToRacism #BlackLivesMatter

Come down to Newcastle, come up to Newcastle, come across to Newcastle — join the NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION in Newcastle on June 11th. Everyone who thinks HE needs to be supported and accessible to all is welcome! For your agenda's: 11 June, 12-2pm, Newcastle!

It’s vital that all members participate in the consultative ballot - we will show that we are ready to fight and prepared to win 💪

UCU UWS consultative ballot is open! Members - you should have received the link last week. Please reach out to the committee if not ✊

Sign sign sign! Our jobs are on the line!

🔥 PACKED public meeting in #Birmingham Why we should back the bin workers ✊🗑️ Solidarity to the #BirminghamBinStrikers #BrumBinStrike

UCU has renewed our call to rule out compulsory redundancies @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social