Lancaster UCU

One of the other lessons should be that a lot of these moves by universities are a lot more optional than they claim. Which is bad management. Redundancies are well known in the literature to cause ongoing organisation issues which last for a loooong time.

There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.

BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future

Onwards and Solidarity

📢📢📢Reminder to members: Emergency General Meeting today at 1pm to discuss next steps following last week's announcements

Absolutely!
This U-turn is 100% a trade union victory.
As we explain in our post ⬇️ important concerns remain, but the message still holds organised pressure and solidarity works
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You know your union branch is in good shape if the mere *threat* of strike is sufficient to achieve your goals.

If you have to actually go on strike, you've probably already lost.

(congrats @lancasterucu.bsky.social!)

Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.

Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.

After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.

This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.

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

THis is still a major victory! It shows that exposing management's unsound financial decision-making alongside tireless organising and pressure works! We hope this sends a message of strength and solidarity to sister unions accross the sector✊

BUT the dispute is NOT over! Serious concerns remain about the university’s financial mismanagement and the consequences of programme closures for staff. We need a long-term solution and we will continue to fight for it!

Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.

📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch!
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RALLY TOMORROW!

Join the fightback against job cuts!
Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the
Scottish parliament.

📢REMINDER THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY📢

📢 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING📢
Lancaster UCU members, don't forget the Extraordinary General Meeting tomorrow at 2:00pm. Check emails for meeting link

If Compulsory Redundancies (CRs) are not withdrawn by 9am on Wednesday 26 we have no choice but to go on with our industrial action!

There is no financial reason for management's cost-cutting spree. Our most recent calculations indicate that the £35m “savings” target set by management has already been met.

We have made it clear to management that we will not take their unjust and unethical proposals lying down and we have completely demolished their credibility.

solidarity ✊

@ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lancasterucu.bsky.social
Solidarity with all striking branches this month!

Strike Day 2:
Pickets at Owen building & HoTC, 8-11am every strike day
Dispute info here: ucuhallam.org
The fight is against compulsory redundancies & poor governance
#SaveSheffieldHallam

Please consider donating to the Lancaster UCU Hardship Fund as we prepare to go on strike next week against the threat of compulsory redundancies at Lancaster University. #ukhe

www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...

🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨

We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November.

Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.

@ucu.org.uk

#Lancaster colleages, today is the last safe day to post your ballot.

A strong mandate is our best option. At many institutions, CRs were withdrawn after ballots for industrial action with high participation and strong results.

#nocompulsoryredundancies

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Imperial staff have had enough.

A 2% below-inflation offer from one of the wealthiest universities in the UK is an insult to every worker who keeps it running.

Today we strike for fair pay, decent conditions, and respect ✊🔥

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

Teaching Term Week 1

- the @lancasterucu.bsky.social ballot to determine strike action against redundancies closes on Friday

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Wednesday is the last day to safely mail your ballot for it to arrive on time before closing on Friday 10th.

Vote YES & YES. Post your BALLOT. Use this chance to take CRs off the table! 📨 📨 📨

#WeAreTheUniversity #StopTheCuts #nocompulsoryredundancies

What will it be like to work or study at Lancaster University, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? How will these impact local communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable?
Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
chng.it/xJpLzrsVvs

Earlier this week #Lancaster UCU joined 46 other UCU branches across the country demanding Jo Grady to treat our Unite colleagues with the same respect we demand from our employers. End this cynism and hypochresy, @drjogrady.bsky.social It's not a good look.

#WeAreTheUniversity

#Lancaster, we have a choice: we can give our everything to stop CRs and the collapse of @lancasteruni.bsky.social, or we can submit to Senior Management's plans and see LU crumble before our eyes. There is no second chance.

VOTE IN THE BALLOT. RECLAIM YOUR CHANCE!

#nocompulsoryredundancies

Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London Brunel University of London management have expressed their intention to move forward with plans for further compulsory redundancies in 2025-26. This comes after a year of decimation in 2024-25, when ...

Hello all on bsky 👋

As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies.

Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇

speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...

Strike continues! We will be holding another rally today, meeting in the Trent Courtyard at 12:40 before walking over to the Portland building.

We are also holding a members meeting at 3:00 today. Members- check your emails for joining info!