Sheffield UCU

We hope to secure commitment to no compulsory redundancies in areas currently targetted for Voluntary Severance under threat of future cuts: Medicine & Population Health; English; History, Philosophy & Digital Humanities; Sociological Studies, Politics and IR; Research, Partnerships & Innovation

We are hoping that our mandate for action will give management pause in launching restructures & further cuts to academic staff in the Management School and Civil & Structural Engineering in the coming months, as well as Chemistry, Materials Science, and the rest of EAS which enter review imminently

6 staff remain at risk of redundancy following the conclusion of the Professional Services Framework restructure.

We do not have exact figures on the number of Fixed Term Contract teaching staff whose contract's have not been renewed over the past months, likely around 30.

Hi Caroline,
11 staff in East Asian Studies are at risk of redundancy with the proposal to move language teaching to MLTC, reducing staff numbers, and pushing G7 teaching staff onto 11 month contracts.

19 staff remain at risk of redundancy following the conclusion of the IT Services restructure.

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.
Support our striking members, donate to the fighting fund if you're able.
More details here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...

We hope that this strong mandate encourages Management to make an offer that will avert the need to take strike action.

Meanwhile, members will meet on Thursday to discuss how to use this mandate most effectively to protect jobs & fight back against worsening of our workloads & working conditions.

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

Solidarity with members at our sister branch at Sheffield Hallam that have a rally tomorrow (24th Sept)
- 11:45 meeting outside the Langsett Building at City Campus
- Walk up to Hallam Square outside the Owen building for speakers at 12 noon.

Get down there and show your support!

University of Sheffield @ucu.org.uk members, have you voted? If you haven't, please do so immediately as the deadline is soon. Trade union solidarity is one the most important tools we've got left in our much troubled world. Don't waste it. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social

Great day to post a ballot (when isn't it?!) The announcement of more potential restructures during the ballot period shows just how shameless Uni of Sheffield management is! It's so important everyone votes in our local dispute to save jobs @sheffielducu.bsky.social

We were already being balloted for strike action, and now this. It follows an absolutely brutal year of restructuring ⬇️

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More threats to jobs, no long term vision. Vote YES to industrial action At this point last year, the Vice-Chancellor was claiming that UEB’s approach to reducing staff expenditure over two academic years would allow the University to return to a surplus position by the 20...

Earlier today, staff in five additional work areas were told they face targeted Voluntary Severence. This decision, and the meagre justifications that UEB are offering, show a complete lack of leadership or financial strategy.

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An unwelcome boost to our ongoing @sheffielducu.bsky.social industrial action ballot as our VC announces more work areas to be targeted by cuts.

It is unclear that this has much to do with finances, but is more an ideological push to change the University's "size and shape".

Are you a @ucu.org.uk member of the University of Sheffield? Have you voted? Please do so. Your university is being vandalised and desperately needs you! #UCUstrike @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Strike ballot opens at University of Sheffield staff over job cuts Staff at the University of Sheffield are being asked to vote for strike action, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today. The ballot opened yesterday and will close on Tuesday 30 Septemb...

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415... If you work for the University of Sheffield and you're sick of seeing your university vandalised and its staff exploited, please vote. If you don't, please support our struggle. We are fighting for you too. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social #university #sheffield

🚨 This week on BBC Look North: Sheffield staff balloting for strike action over £5m in cuts.

We have defeated cuts in other institutions and we will defeat these ✊

Show your support to @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Here goes my vote for strike action at the University of Sheffield. When your management treats staff & students as disposable commodities, it's your duty, even more than your right, to respond. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk #sheffield #university #workersrights

More and more ballots open - solidarity to @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Don’t like to have to keep doing this, but management has left us again with no choice. We will vote again to take action and massive numbers will again be out on picket lines. And like last year, management will again back down. All of that can be prevented if management chooses to negotiate.

The strong action that our members took in Spring resulted in key concessions from management, and the safeguarding of jobs at risk until the end of 2025.

We are now calling for a new mandate to further protect jobs, and address increasing workload pressures these cuts are exacerbating.

University of Sheffield finances stabilise after fall in students The University of Sheffield still plans cuts to jobs and courses despite a better financial outlook.

Further, we believe that University Management have not demonstrated the financial or organisational need for aggressive changes to staffing. Public accounts demonstrate that the University has very little debt, strong reserves, liquidity and an operational surplus.

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Why the University of Sheffield’s problems are made in Sheffield University management claims the current financial situation is entirely down to external factors. The evidence suggests otherwise.

Using the latest student recruitment data from the Office for Students, our recent article shows that the University of Sheffield has been hit way harder than average in international student recruitment.

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There is a clear crisis in HE which requires urgent Government intervention, but we don’t believe that the University is in the level of financial difficulty which requires such drastic action, and the University Executive Board have failed to take accountability for their own role here.

Meltdown: the toxic culture that helped destroy the Nuclear AMRC Complaints about bullying were made as far back as 2018. Why did the University of Sheffield turn a blind eye?

This comes on top of the university-wide restructuring of professional services staff, IT Services, upcoming restructure of East Asian Studies language provision, and restructures of Nuclear AMRC and the English Language Teaching Centre in the past year.

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/meltdown-the...

Over 1000 staff have faced disruptive restructures over the 2024/2025 academic year. In May the VC announced further reviews in East Asian Studies, Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemistry, and the Management School.

University of Sheffield vice-chancellor claims £17,000 in business class travel expenses Koen Lamberts' registered expenses have increased 68 per cent on last year

Since our Vice Chancellor was appointed, we have seen a systemic programme of destabilising change management, with 1000s of staff being placed at risk of losing their jobs. This has created a demoralising cycle of stress and uncertainty for all staff at the University.

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Strike ballot opens at University of Sheffield staff over job cuts Staff at the University of Sheffield are being asked to vote for strike action, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today. The ballot opened yesterday and will close on Tuesday 30 September.

Ballot papers drop today for local industrial action to defend jobs at the University of Sheffield against redundancy and further workload pressures.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...

First Sheffield Trade Unions for Trans Rights meeting First Sheffield Trade Unions for Trans Rights meeting There is always that feeling of nervousness before a first campaign meeting. Is anyone going to actually turn up? Will we find things in common a...

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First Sheffield Trade Unions for Trans Rights meeting First Sheffield Trade Unions for Trans Rights meeting There is always that feeling of nervousness before a first campaign meeting. Is anyone going to actually turn up? Will we find things in common a...

Our rep shares their thoughts on the Sheff TUs 4 Trans Rights meeting.

"Our organising group is growing and we are looking forward to a future where trans people can come out of the closet and onto the streets to join the fight for a better world with the solidarity of trade unionists everywhere."