Callum Salfield

All three Trade Unions at #Lboro are balloting members over pay and recently met on campus to encourage members to vote.

#VoteYES in the #WeAreTheUniversity ballots.

@ucu.org.uk @unison.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social

Have you voted in the #WeAreTheUniversity ballot yet?

If not, vote now and vote YES!

@ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk

Last chance to register for the #LboroUCU online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 11th November from 12 noon.

For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...

The @ucu.org.uk "We are the University" ballots will be posted to members on Monday. Look out for a pink envelope at your registered address arriving next week. We encourage all members to vote and make their voice heard. #WeAreTheUniversity #LboroUCU

Interested in supporting colleagues & making a real difference?

LUCU is looking for new volunteer caseworkers — full training provided!

Intro to Casework (online): Tue 18 Nov, 1–4:30pm.

Learn more 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/become-a-luc...

#LboroUCU

Branch update Fifty UCU branches join calls for unconditional talks After over 50 UCU branches signed up to a statement calling on SMT and the General Secretary to meet with Unite for unconditional talks, branch…

We wondered last week whether @drjogrady.bsky.social would listen to @ucu.org.uk members, agree to unconditional talks & withdraw the threat of deductions for taking ASOS.

So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”.

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💜 Loughborough UCU Get Together!
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 🕐 1–2pm
📍 UCU Office – 3 Holywell Dr

☕ Tea, coffee & biscuits on us!

Join fellow members to reconnect, meet your new committee & start the year with good conversation and friendly faces.

#LboroUCU #UnionTogether

🚨 Want to level up your organising skills? 🚨

Join Power Up!, free for UCU members this Nov–Dec. Build campaigns that win + connect with organisers worldwide 🌍✊

📅 Sessions: 18, 20 Nov & 2, 4 Dec (5–7pm)
⏰ Register by 25 Oct → ucu@lboro.ac.uk

More info 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/power-up-new...

Members, we've announced our calendar of all member meetings for 2025-26. These meetings are vital opportunities to shape the direction of our branch and to stay engaged with the work of your union. We hope you’ll make a note of the dates and join us when you can. All the info is on our website.

Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics?

It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU

It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage

Not in our name.

Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

Improve your working conditions - join a union today!

Info on joining #LboroUCU and #UCU in general: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/

Work in another sector? Find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion

#JoinAUnion

We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to: • Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions. • Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS - this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action. Signed, 25, no, 37 UCU branch committees (and counting)

Another 12 more UCU branches have signed (so far) today!

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We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.

YouTube video by The Crispin Flintoff Show 'A party that belongs to us'

Highlights of the #YourParty #Chesterfield & North #Derbyshire get together, held on Wednesday evening, are now on YouTube: youtu.be/-Vf-U4T5t7I

#LboroUCU response to the far-right demonstration in London this weekend, and the nationwide St George’s and Union flag display campaign: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-opposes...

What a great first #YourParty get together in #Chesterfield. A truly inspiring meeting filled with hope for a better future. Over 130 like minded people in the room and on zoom. Onwards and upwards!

The results of the LUCU Staff Survey, held earlier this year, have now been published on our branch website. You can see them, and a brief report, here: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/report-from-...

#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #StaffSurvey

Jo Grady calling Queen Mary management "vindictive" for making deductions from UCU members taking action short of a strike: Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary, said Queen Mary's senior management had "launched a vindictive attack" on its members, "punishing them for taking part in lawful industrial action" and "cementing its reputation as the worst university employer in the UK" She said: "It is wrong to do this at any time and all the more deplorable as staff struggle to make ends meet in a cost of living crisis."

Screen shot of the article from The Guardian about Queen Mary ASOS deductions in which Jo Grady is quoted

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

Been out this evening at #Chesterfield Train Station leafleting for the #YourParty Chesterfield & North #Derbyshire Get Together next week with some good comrades. Details and more: linktr.ee/yourpartyche...

We are very pleased to announce that we have a new Department Rep in the School of Social Sciences & Humanities. Meet our very first UCU Rep for the new Loughborough Law Department in this article: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/a-new-rep-fo...

#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #LboroLaw

A reminder that you can still sign up for our Allyship & Solidarity CPD session, details on the post below.

Sometimes a barrier is a good thing!

Join #LboroUCU today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/

Or if you work in another sector, you can find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion

#JoinAUnion

#LboroUCU has organised an online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 23rd September from 12 noon.

For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...

Find out what happened at our #LboroUCU AGM and who's in each role on the LUCU Committee for 2025-26: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-agm-202...

Ballot opens today Vote early, vote YES and YES The ballot over our Campaign for a Safe and Professional Workplace Culture opens today. Defend your contracts! Defend your reps! Stand up for Equality! Stand up for tra…

😡 Targeting our reps
😡 Refusing to talk
😡 Imposing an office return with no equality assessment or hybrid agreement
😡 Breaching agreed procedures
😡 Unsafe levels of work-related stress

Just 5 reasons our ballot opens today for a Safe & Professional Workplace.

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Pass the Employment Rights Bill – in full, without delay The biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation is within reach. But Tory peers and big business want to water it down. Add your name now to demand the House of Lords passes the Employment Righ...

Please sign and share the @tuc.org.uk petition to Members of the House of Lords demanding they pass the Employment Rights Bill in full.

www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...

Please sign and share to support @bcu-ucu.bsky.social

#LboroUCU has organised an online CPD workshop, "The Menopause is a Workplace Issue", open to all LU staff and Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Wed 20th August from 12 noon.

More info and to register: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-t...

Join #LboroUCU today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/

Not in the Education Sector, find the best union for you via @tuc.org.uk: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion

We’ve been relatively quiet recently. Unfortunately this isn’t because we’re finally making progress in our long-running dispute over our demand for a safe and professional workplace. Nor is it because industrial relations are improving and our employer is now engaging meaningfully.

Long 🧵

At lunchtime today!