Univ of Manchester UCU

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QMUL's poster removal: Management threatens staff with disciplinary action over posters and stickers No clarity is given about what is deemed antisemitic Management reduces all Jewish colleagues to one position Possible precedent of repression & censorship .Management refuses to engage meaningfully Management repeats the same statement they issued in February 2024 when they broke into the union office Management claims this is an established policy though they escalate from previous practice

Colleagues were interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about @qmul.bsky.social's sudden escalation in taking down posters & threatening disciplinary action.

It is a great explanation of what's happening & its dangers.

Listen from 22min in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or clipped: youtu.be/SJGnCrDaCf0?...

💪💪💪 @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members start indefinite Action Short of a Strike @northumbriauni.bsky.social on 12 February. Strike Action is currently scheduled for...

Some mutual love and #solidarity from the workers of Malvern House London and INTO Manchester on the #PicketLine.

#Unity and #power for the win!

@manchester.ac.uk @umucu.bsky.social

Breaking news – Redundancy notice (Section 188) removed

The University of Dundee has confirmed that the section 188 letter issued in March 2025 has been formally withdrawn! This is a direct result of the industrial action we took and the action we threatened.

This is our victory! 1/3

Beyond busy with amazing @bcu-ucu.bsky.social as we fight a 340+ attack on jobs & ongoing dispute over performance management against a backdrop of suddenly imposed workload-increasing policy changes at same time as shrinking teams with over 200 "silent redundancies" through MARS.

Our ballot results are in!

-63% of members voted
-84% of voting members said YES to action short of strike
-72% of voting members said YES to strike action

Which means our call for industrial action has passed and we have a mandate to fight back!

Liverpool Hope University cuts 'devastating' for its reputation - BBC News Liverpool Hope University says it is planning cuts "to ensure financial and academic stability".

39 lecturers at Liverpool Hope face redundancy.

“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.

#StopTheCuts #UCU

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Edinburgh branch officers explain why UCU members are going on strike at Edinburgh University this coming Friday #StopTheCuts #solidarity

UCU members on Edinburgh picket line

No More Cuts written in chalk

UCU members on Edinburgh picket line

UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs

We're fighting against these reckless proposals

Share to show your support ✊

"Over 10,000 jobs are set to go from campuses across the UK if Labour sits on its hands and allows the sector to go to the wall."

UCU president Maxine Looby speaking at our rally for higher education.

We demand immediate government action to #STOPtheCUTS ✊

Our response to Labour’s cruel and self-defeating austerity statement:

How many solidari-dogs did you spot at the UEA UCU day of action?! Tag us with any we've missed! #SaveUEA #PupsOnPickets

🗣 The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system - @david_conn

📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester

All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

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Bizarre statement @ucu.org.uk.

For 6️⃣ years you refused to work with us to end #HostileEnvironment policy in UK HE. As this policy extend to other areas, instead, you capitulate to the very neoliberal, marketised dynamics that harms migrant students & all staff alike.

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UMUCU branch motion in detail, 7 points of resolve connected to BDS.

On Wed 29 Jan 2025, the Univ of Manchester’s UCU branch passed a BDS motion, calling on the institution to support BDS & academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. To read the motion in full, follow link or scan QR-code in visual.

#Palestine 🇵🇸

Prof Gary Younge holding his book.

Three University of Manchester staff seated in front of a large photo and brief bio about Ellen Wilkinson.

An audience for Gary Younge in a lecture theatre in the Ellen Wilkinson Building.

Kicking off @official-uom.bsky.social Manchester Institute of Education Anti Racist Educ Network seminar series 2025, Gary Younge talks about Dispatches from the Diaspora 👊🏽👊🏽💚
Keep 👀 out for more seminars!
Funded thru' @uomseed.bsky.social EDI. Collab with @ethnicityuk.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social

YouTube video by UCU - University and College Union UCU Member Brian on Prison Education Crisis

Prison educators are severely underfunded and unsupported.

We are demanding change.

Find out more about our #UnlockingFutures campaign 👉 www.ucu.org.uk/UnlockingFut...

Join the @PSCupdates Trade Union Solidarity Webinar 🚨

⏰ 29 Jan, 6pm
🔗Register: palestinecampaign.org/events/psc-webinar-trade-unions-taking-action-for-palestine-in-2025/

Hear from trade unionists and find out how you can support Palestine at work.

YouTube video by UCU - University and College Union Jo Grady on BBC Newsnight | 23 Jan 2025

Our General Secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social went on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social last night to tell the nation about the shockingly low pay of further education college lecturers 👇

University Reimagined - Manchester University Press The University Reimagined series offers a home for fresh ideas about higher education and innovative solutions to the challenges it faces, both within the UK and internationally.

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

A big thank you to Dr Parise Carmichael-Murphy for an incredible and important presentation at our final Manchester Institute of Education Anti Racist Education Network seminar of 2024! Well attended by staff and students keen to learn about inclusive curriculum/histories projects and resources 👏🏽👊🏽

Also an excuse to re-share @pmdfoster.bsky.social’s brilliant piece which takes Essex as a case through which to discuss the transformation of #UKHE: built in the 1960s to transform the region and society, and now transformed beyond recognition through marketisation and governmental neglect.

On workplace day of action, Manchester students, staff, and community members unite to call for an end to the scholasticide in Gaza. @umucu.bsky.social @manmetucu.bsky.social

This Thursday at 12 - Manchester, join us!

Our branch is also supporting the week of action organised by @umucu.bsky.social focussing on scholasticide in Palestine with events running all the way up to Friday.

University Week of Action for #Palestine. United against #scholasticide. See below for some of what's happening in Manchester 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾Including open meeting, discussion, creative spaces, teach-ins, film screening.

(Look out for what's happening in other cities and campuses via
@ucu.org.uk)

Looking forward to speaking at this #highered governance event next week for @umucu.bsky.social members. #academicsky #academicchatter

Hi Dan, Yes, indeed it is the very same eminent Steve Jones. Ah, so sorry. Members meeting only on this occasion.