Cardiff Met UCU Met Caerdydd

We now know there will be 3 rounds in less than 3 years…

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#nocompulsoryredundancies

#UCU2025 Congress has voted to raise a trade dispute with the government.

@drjogrady.bsky.social On BBC Radio 4 this morning our general secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social lays out the stark reality of the crisis facing our sector

UCU threatens government with national strike over HE funding UK’s biggest academic union eyes showdown with Labour minister as it tries to respond to wave of university cuts

"It is shameful that university cuts have become so severe under a Labour government that our union is now laying the ground for a trade union dispute with the education secretary." @drjogrady.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-thr...

#ProtectEducationNow #StopTheCuts #ucu2025

🚨TODAY🚨

11.30 - 12.30.

Rally opposite Llandaff Campus.

Solidarity to all staff at risk.
join us for an hour of protest against Cardiff Metropolitans Compulsory Redundancy Proposals.

🚨TODAY🚨

11.30 - 12.30.

Solidarity to all staff at risk.
join us for an hour of protest against Cardiff Metropolitans Compulsory Redundancy Proposals.

Protest planned against compulsory redundancies at Cardiff Met Martin Shipton The University and College Union is to stage a demonstration outside the Llandaff campus of Cardiff Metropolitan University in protest against redundancy proposals. Members of the Cardi...

The University and College Union is to stage a demonstration outside the Llandaff campus of Cardiff Metropolitan University in protest against redundancy proposals ✍️Martin Shipton

Poster saying Cardiff Met ICU says no to compulsory redundancies

📢 loud hailer ✅
🪧placards ✅
🙌people coming in numbers ✅
come and join us to protest the proposed compulsory redundancies at Cardiff Met.

A red line with the words ‘do not cross the line’

If Cardiff Met continue with proposed compulsory redundancies, they will be the first university to cross the line.

UCU a say NO to compulsory redundancies.

@drjogrady.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk @cardiffucu.bsky.social

“At UEA, it is understood that 22 staff are earning more than £150k and 4 staff are on £205k. At a time when university managers are pushing through large-scale job cuts, this is frankly obscene”

Good thing that management got rid of many colleages at the ITS service desk and Technology Enhanced Learnint Team and our PGR coordinators and is reorganising our Student Experience Team.

All for the sake of the AskQM chatbot that nobody uses.

oh hi, would you look at that! That thing that staff have been saying for a while is the death knell of universities recognised as being the death knell of universities!
Great to be on the same page, but let's not pretend that loads of us put a lot of effort to make administrators see this for years

Poster inviting people to a Cardiff Met UCU rally. 22nd May. Outside Llandaff campus Image of people holding up placards saying ‘UCU say no to compulsory redundancies’

@ucu.org.uk @ucucommons.bsky.social @vickyblake.bsky.social
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Cardiff scales back redundancies again with 138 jobs now at risk Job cuts target drops from initial 400 after university accepts proposals put forward by staff which will see schools ‘teaching higher numbers of students’

Cardiff University has further scaled back its planned job cuts and handed a reprieve to some degree courses in a further softening in its approach to restructuring, reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social
#AcademicAky #jobcuts

Poster saying Cardiff Met ICU says no to compulsory redundancies

📢 loud hailer ✅
🪧placards ✅
🙌people coming in numbers ✅
come and join us to protest the proposed compulsory redundancies at Cardiff Met.

From an initial 400 planned job cuts to 138??

Brilliant work by @cardiffucu.bsky.social.

Let's keep fighting!!

Poster inviting people to a Cardiff Met UCU rally. 22nd May. Outside Llandaff campus Image of people holding up placards saying ‘UCU say no to compulsory redundancies’

@ucu.org.uk @ucucommons.bsky.social @vickyblake.bsky.social
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Image of a person cutting almost all the way trphrough a tree that will then collapse on top of them and staff trying to hold it up Words over image say ‘uCU say NO to compulsory redundancies.

Compulsory redundancies are cruel and unnecessary.

Cardiff Met UCU have requested that Cardiff Met re-open their voluntary severance programme, or if necessary a VOLUNTARY redundancy programme across the whole university.
@ucu.org.uk @senedd.wales @vickyblake.bsky.social @dyfrigjones.bsky.social

Substack post How to trash a University's reputation

My Substack on the Cardiff University situation is out....

Cardiff Uni jobs threat leads to toxic culture - Leighton Andrews Professor and former education minister says plan to cut 400 jobs has created a

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

Management consultants and university futures: Academic capitalism and the capture of UK public higher education This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple...

Yes research will suffer and consultants will flourish!

The University of Edinburgh is expecting to shed staff and curb capital spending in a bid to save £140 milllion over the next 18 months, according to its vice-chancellor.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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TOMORROW! We've got members from branches across #UKHE speaking as well as Head of Equality and Policy @ucu.org.uk

All very welcome to join for as long or as short as you can, just register for the link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...