KCL UCU

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

Petition to reinstate Usama Ghanem as a KCL student We, the undersigned, condemn King’s College London (KCL) for endangering the life of 21-year-old international relations student Usama Ghanem by withdrawing his visa sponsorship and indefinitely suspe...

🚨🚨Vote YES in our local ballot to send a clear message to KCL management that this will not stand. Sign the petition ⬇️ to call for Usama’s reinstatement. In solidarity with Usama Ghanem and Free Palestine #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL

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Members’ Meeting – 11 March - Motion: King’s College London Divestment from Unethical Investments

Our formal dispute is also focused on what students like Usama have been protesting for and what a clear majority of KCL students want: KCL divestment from companies implicated in violations of human rights and international law. See more ⬇️

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Our union branch is currently in formal dispute with management and is balloting its members over the university’s failures to protect staff who have been subject to harassment and threats for their solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 ✊⬇️

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King’s College London Withdraws Pro-Palestine Student’s Visa, Risking His Torture, After Pressure From Israel Lobby Group | Novara Media EXCLUSIVE: KCL suspended Usama Ghanem after pressure from the pro-Israel Campaign Against Antisemitism, despite knowing he would be sent back to Egypt where he was previously imprisoned and tortured. ...

One of these students - second year Usama Ghanem - is fighting an indefinite suspension and cancellation of his visa for taking part in peaceful pro-Palestine protests on campus. If forced to return to Egypt he will face imprisonment and torture. full story here ⬇️

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❗️📝 ❗️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
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Full details of background of dispute, demands and negotiations here: kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/10/21/k...

We need our members to come together and make this successful. Join the conversation and help us #GetTheVoteOut. We have our general meeting today at 2pm and a GTVO volunteers meeting at 11 on Friday. Come along or email ucu[at]kcl.ac.uk to get involved! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼✊

A strong YES vote in this historic ballot would give our branch negotiators huge leverage with management to make progress on these demands. VOTE YES IN BOTH THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL BALLOTS!

4. We are demanding a pause in the implementation of ‘King’s Strategy 2030’ so full consultation can take place. We demand commitment to no compulsory redundancies as a result of this strategy, and a commitment in the strategy for improvements in staff terms and conditions

3. Failures to protect staff and institutional complicity in war crimes are result of the democratic deficit in KCL’s governance. We are returning to the demand of our unresolved 2023 local dispute that KCL Council must have at least 50% of its members as elected staff

2. We demand reopening of negotiations on KCL divestment from companies enabling oppression in Palestine and a clause in contracts to allow employees to conscientiously object to participation in activity connected with the military, arms trade, fossil fuels or genocide

1. We demand public statement reaffirming KCL commitment to academic freedom, anti-racism, and the protection of its community from intimidation, harassment+discrimination. We need independent investigation into mishandling of politically motivated complaints against our members

We are balloting on FOUR interlinked issues that all come down to management intransigence and increasing hostility to consultation. We're revisiting our previous disputes in light of two major developments: the genocide in Palestine and the national crisis in higher education

This dispute has been guided by our membership and brings together different trade disputes going back to 2023 - related to academic freedom, divestment, governance and working conditions - under ONE action.

KCL UCU’s ballot is running at the same time as the @ucu.org.uk national dispute on pay and jobs. It speaks to problems at KCL where working conditions are connected to a democratic deficit in governance and the institution’s untenable ‘values-based impartiality’ stance on genocide

With our local dispute, we are the first university (and the first workplace!?) in the UK to formally ballot members over possible industrial action that relates to our employer’s response to global injustice and the oppression of the Palestinian people

🚨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

'When the only journalists are being slaughtered...' | The Freelance ...how to report a genocide? Our meeting in Parliament

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

This outcome gives us important leverage in negotiations with management. Please come to our next General Meeting on 23 July to discuss next steps!

We are demanding that management make a public statement condemning the harassment that has taken place; take adequate steps to safeguard staff affected; and commission an independent review into the handling of complaints related to Palestine since late 2023

🌟 91% of voting members shared our concern that management is not doing enough to protect academic freedom and safeguard staff

🌟78% of voting members would support a formal ballot on possible industrial action if there is no agreement to end this trade dispute

🌟55% of our voting-eligible membership participated. Thank you so much! This easily passes the anti-trade union legal 50% threshold for a valid result

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