UCU @ MMU

Our (slightly droopy) banner at the back there as a delegation from the branch committee visited striking UCU workers at INTO Manchester fighting against a 2% pay offer from their employer, well behind the rate of inflation.

INTO are a private education provider who last year made £20million profit

@unison.org.uk and @ucu.org.uk working together to get the vote out! Please share widely.

Universities are under attack. By defending ourselves, we are defending the whole sector.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

Hi, yes that is the case. However, how these are applied at MMU differ from how they are used at other institutions. There is full detail in the report.

UCU-MMU Release "Your Pathway, Your Voice" Report

“I feel extremely overworked and at breaking point. I am working on the train, in evenings, at weekends...”.

Strict and inflexible academic pathways are severely harming our members health.

Read the report below 👇

Rebecca has long been a supporter of Higher Education workers in the North West, including during the pay dispute in 2022/23 which saw industrial action at both Manchester Met and RNCM

Our Branch Secretary @lykarar.bsky.social met with Salford MP and MMU alum @rebeccalongbailey.com at the @unisoninhe.bsky.social parliamentary lobby yesterday to talk about the crisis enveloping our universities.

University union lays ground for its first ever strike ballot against Labour Delegates at the University and College Union's (UCU) annual Congress have overwhelmingly voted to prepare for an industrial dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over university funding, ...

UCU - University union lays ground for its first ever strike ballot against Labour www.ucu.org.uk/article/1403...

Yesterday we stood alongside colleagues from UCU to call for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine as part of Nakba Day and the TUC-backed workplace day of action for Palestine.

MMU UCU and Unison take part in the workplace day of action for Palestine. Find out about what your branch can do here 👇

www.tuc.org.uk/news/support...

🚩We're back on the picket line this morning.
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA

Poster saying "UCU MANAGEMENT. STOP GIVING OUR EMPLOYERS IDEAS. RESPECT YOUR STAFF. RESOLVE THE DISPUTE. #ReclaimUCU" In mostly black handwritten text on a white background.

Out to support @uniteucu.bsky.social today with @manmetucu.bsky.social. People asking why we were there were baffled that employees would need to strike against a trade union. Yep. A shameful and absurd situation. #ReclaimUCU

✋✋🏻✋🏽✋🏾✋🏿✋🏿 #Solidarity

Image promoting our strike rally on 12-1pm on 1 May outside UCU head office in London.

📣 May Day Rally 📣

We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London.

All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace.

#ThriveNotSurvive

Thank you to all the amazing UCU branches who’ve been solid & vocal in supporting us. And huge #solidarity to those taking their own action.

UCU isn’t one person, it’s its branches, its activists & its members. We want to work for & support you; being unable to properly do so is beyond upsetting.

Our branch has carried motions expressing our solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social & calling for an end to this dispute. Fighting for better & fairer workplaces is what we do - it’s time for @ucu.org.uk to change tack, to listen and build something with which members can be proud to be associated.

ATTENTION ALL ACADEMIC STAFF @ MMU ⚠️

Complete the survey ✅
Share with co-workers ✅
Get involved by contacting the branch or your convenor ✅

Build the evidence for negotiations, build your union!

You are not alone✊

mmu.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/03/25/b...

Woman in glasses smiling wearing a number of badges and stickers in front of a group of people crowded round a stall with many leaflets on it

We continue with #HeartUnions week by joining with our wonderful academic colleagues from @manmetucu.bsky.social for a stall in Grosvenor East. Some great support for our work from both colleagues and students!

Four people standing behind a table with another person standing behind them. The person in the middle left is holding a tote bag with a Rosie the Riveter type graphic on it while the person in the middle right is holding a green leaflet. The table is full of leaflets as well as pink hats, tote bags and purple pens and lanyards.

Out meeting prospective members with @manmetucu.bsky.social at the uni's Welcome Event.

14 days of strike action at @newcastleucu.bsky.social battling devastating job cuts.

Picket lines will send a clear message 💪

Our members will not pay the price for managers financial mismanagement.

A union isn't an outside organization that comes in to help you.

A union is YOU and your colleagues coming together to empower each other as a collective.

And that's way more powerful.

Our members have given a clear message, cuts this way is not the way forward. They want a more democratic governance of their university, reasonable workloads, and most importantly, to stop this devastating approach to HE as a business.
oh, and if you want to sign the letter the article refers to:

Branch Committee 24/25

Keep an eye on our website over the coming weeks for new developments!

Sign the Petition Not in our name: A call on Jo Grady and the UCU SMT to resolve the dispute with Unite UCU

Resolving this dispute is in everyone’s interest - solidarity to striking UCU staff www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

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)

Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

ANOTHER UCU BRANCH AMONGST US ALERT! Welcome @manmetucu.bsky.social!!

(statistically, this is a wave now)

Follow us all via the list of #UCU branches: #UKHE #TradeUnions bsky.app/profile/did:...