University of Nottingham UCU branch

Dogs know. Dogs always know. Never cross a picket line, especially @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's @northumbriauni.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @andylong6.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social @labourunionsuk.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Says it all really. ✊✊✊We go again today! @ucu.org.uk @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social

Cash-strapped university owed millions by overseas campus The university has cut hundreds of jobs and put two campuses up for sale in the UK

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University paid more than £11m to hundreds of staff during job cuts It also paid out more than £13 million last year

www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

A screenshot of the article linked below

A screenshot of the article linked below

More crucial reporting from Josh Hartley at Nottinghamshire Live. At what point will this university wake up to the fact that digging a deeper hole doesn't help turn finances around?

#stopthecuts #savehe

A photograph of a hand dropping a UCU ballot into a postbox

With everything happening on our campus and with our local branch, it's easy to lose sight of national activity. But don't forget that @ucu.org.uk is holding elections right now that will effect our branch and organising across the country. So get those votes in ASAP! Make your voice heard!

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How many universities are being sabotaged by people neck-deep in bad investments, cosplaying as property tycoons at the publics expense? How many opportunities did we have to prevent this?

Jonathan Wonham is a Glasgow-born poet who lives in the UK. His eight books of poetry are Steel Horizon (Incline Press, 2013), Ordinary Others, Vulgar Variants, the Ukraine trilogy, Ceasefire Now! and Dystopia Persecutia (all Drizzle-Dazzle).

#UONUCU #freepalestine #alleyesongaza

✍️ Participants will then write their own poems
📷 Based on photographs provided by Jonathan
📔 Worksheets, handouts and writing materials provided

📍 Location: Pope A1
🗓 Thursday 12th February
🕘 2-4PM

Palestine poetry workshop 12/02/26 2-4 PM A1, Pope Building, University Park With Jonathan Wonham

📜 Palestine Poetry Workshop

Jonathan Wonham will discuss poems from his two recent poetry books responding to the war on Gaza in the context of three types of subject: grief, protest and hope.

We hope they do too, but we're also not waiting around to see if they actually do their jobs. 💪

Also, maybe don't use this as an excuse to cut courses and programs that are currently profitable? And make faculty who bring in research funds redundant?

Seems, I don't know, obvious?

#stopthecuts #savehe #UCU #UoNUCU #UON #UniversityOfNottingham

And I'm also not in charge of the university, but I also feel like maybe the people who are in charge of making financial choices for the university should be the ones who face the consequences of these horrible decisions. Not staff, not students, not faculty, not the community.

Screenshot of a THE story with the headline "Nottingham posts £85 million deficit as value of campus plummets"

Screenshot of a NottinghamshireLive news story with the headline "University of Nottingham's disastrous 'vanity project' campus could be sold for just £14."

Now I'm not an economist, but I feel like this is not great economic news.

PROTEST AGAINST ICE MURDERS Solidarity with migrants and workers of Minneapolis, Minnesota Speak out against trump! Saturday, Jan 31, 1PM Brian Clough statue

Our branch stands with all of those brave communities and individuals standing up against the fascist Trump regime in the US. We will be joining this protest on Saturday in solidarity. We hope you can too.

Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!

This is why we strongly recommend that our members support these union members in their fight. Remember, we are in this together, standing in solidarity, and fighting the same fight. Sending strength and love to these comrades!

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Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!

Members of the administration at the University of Sheffield are threatening to lock out members of @sheffielducu.bsky.social who do not reschedule teaching lost to recent strike action. It's an incredibly damaging choice and a horrible precedent to set if it moves through.

Union condemns treatment of education leaders on Palestine visit The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the blocking by Israel of a delegation of education leaders trying to visit Palestine as part of International Day of Education.

“Children and students in Palestine deserve access to education and educators should be safe to teach and research, without fear and oppression.” @drjogrady.bsky.social

Please take five minutes today to email your MP, share how these attacks are affecting staff and students, and ask them to add their name to EDM 2479 “Higher education pension cuts” in support of secure pensions and decent conditions in our sector.
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Higher education pension cuts - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament That this House expresses its alarm at the growing number of higher education institutions deploying approaches which are having a negative impact on the pension schemes of academics and staff, including through fire and rehire proposals and other approaches tantamount to forcing workers onto worse contracts, terms and conditions; further expresses alarm that such actions have triggered trade disputes at institutions such as Southampton Solent and Northumbria universities, where staff are facing threats of dismissal and permanent pay freezes, respectively, unless they agree to pension cuts; insists that using subsidiary companies to circumvent employment rights and to undermine pay, terms or conditions is unacceptable behaviour that simply serves to negatively impact industrial relations further in a sector already suffering from mass redundancies and industrial action; calls on the Office for Students immediately to investigate institutions accused by trade unions of undermining pension rights to establish whether they are failing in their duties, including those relating to good governance and protecting the interests of students; and further calls on the Government to take urgent steps to prevent pension cuts and a race to the bottom in higher education provision, including through legislative change if necessary.

UCU members: MPs are considering an Early Day Motion on higher education pension cuts that condemns fire-and-rehire tactics, use of subsidiaries to undermine contracts, and threats of dismissal or pay freezes to force pension cuts. edm.parliament.uk/ea...
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The conference will focus on challenging toxic, racist, and divisive narratives and planning around delivering a stong, rooted trade union presence at th major unity demonstration on 28 march.

So do join. Because when we organise, learn, and fight together, we win.

#solidarity #UCU

Please consider joining this event that will include workshop, plenaries, and training/education sessions to organise, share experiences, and educate ourselves on this issue.

A flier for the workers against the far right organising conference on Saturday, 21 February. Registration can be found at bit.ly/3YcDHuk

While we continue to organise around our local campaign against compulsory redundancies and course closures, we also want to support our national branch as they fight back against all sorts of national and international threats. This includes the rise of far right and fascist politics in our country

Sharing a deep, unquestionable sense of solidarity with our comrades (including @drjogrady.bsky.social from @ucu.org.uk). We stand behind you and all of those fighing for freedom in Palestine!

In #solidarity,
University of Nottingham UCU Branch

Please feel free to pass it on to any organisation or group agitating and organising against this tyranny in Minnesota.

The slogan of our union, the University and Colleges Union is “Knowledge is Power, Unity is Strength”. We believe it applies just as much if not more so, in your struggle as ours

While this message is addressed to trade unions, and this handful of trade unions in particular, it applies to every person struggling for justice and liberation in Minnesota against this profound evil.

You are fighting for the most basic right in the world, the right to live life in peace and dignity. If there is some way we can assist in your struggle, please let us know.

We wish you every success in the struggle for the expulsion of the ICE occupiers from your state. As far as we can tell, the last general strike in Minneapolis was in 1934, an action that resulted in the achievement of many of the rights workers across the US have today.