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If you haven’t completed our #workload survey yet, please do NOW! We’ve extended the deadline & need as many responses as possible.

More responses = more data = more pressure on managers to reduce workload.

Search for link in your inbox or write to the Branch Secretary if you can’t find it!

Union brands London Met cuts an ‘act of institutional vandalism’ University’s plan to cut more than 100 academic roles puts it reputation for inclusive education at risk, fears UCU

London Metropolitan University has announced plans to cut more than 100 academic roles, in a move UCU has described as a “reckless assault on inclusive education”. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports

@qmucu.bsky.social @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social

Our comrades at @ucucapitalcitycoll.bsky.social are on strike this week as part of the nationally coordinated FE action over pay, workloads and national binding bargaining.

Get yourselves down to show your support. We are glad to be making a £200 donation to their strike fund.

Sheffield management have withdrawn their threat of a lockout for w/c 5 Jan to facilitate further discussions with our excellent @sheffielducu.bsky.social negotiators. Massive thanks to the ucu team, and to everyone for having our backs. It’s not over yet, but maybe there’s a path to get there!

Victory to @ucu.org.uk members at Sheffield Hallam & University of Sheffield

Management must wake up and listen to staff, vanity projects and six figure salaries wont cut it!

Our universities are a economic lynchpin for our region, and an engine of social mobility

Solidarity to UCU members!

Thank you to @ucu.org.uk members at Sheffield University for welcoming us on their picket lines this morning. Solidarity in their fight against redundancies.

Managment meed to stop playing games and make meaningful offers.

Victory to UCU members in Sheffield!

Who doesn't love a picket pup!

A dark furred dog in profile. It is wearing a green coat and is on a leash.

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We can do this together. Post it. Post it. Post it.
#wearetheuniversity

We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.

🚨 TODAY is the LAST ‼️ day to request a replacement ballot if you have not already done so!

Do it NOW if you still need to - at the link!

#WeAreTheUniversity

yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

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...

Look at those graphs — then get your ballot in ASAP!

Next Wednesday is your LAST safe day to post, but don’t wait until then!

We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.

🚨 Reminder‼️

If you never received or have lost your ballot, SUNDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER is the LAST day to request a replacement!

Here is the link to the ballot replacement form: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

Don’t delay! Get your replacement now & post your ballot immediately! #WeAreTheUniversity

Trans Unions 4 Trans Rights

It is Transgender Awareness Week.

Trans rights remain under attack in the UK.

Our branch believes that trans people are who they say they are, and trans rights are human rights!

We must stick together! Chat to your colleagues and vote YES!

Then tell us you’ve voted!

No university is immune to the devastating trend sweeping the sector! Return your ballot to show Vice Chancellors that #WeAreTheUniversity!

🚨 You have 2 weeks from today to request a replacement ballot. 🗳️ Don’t wait - do it now if you still haven’t received yours!

If you have but have not returned it, do so now! Last safe day to post is 26th Nov! ✅

To those who’ve already voted - thank you! 🙏🏼

Let’s show managers #WeAreTheUniversity

YES! We love to see the solidarity from our LSE colleagues!

Let’s keep those votes pouring in!

🚨 Reminder to post your ballot! Don’t wait - drop it in the postbox today!

If you haven’t received yours, request a replacement ballot NOW: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

If you’ve already voted, let UCU know: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

#WeAreTheUniversity

We were glad to welcome Jo Grady to our branch last week to fire up our members and get the vote out!

Remember to send your ballot in TODAY — and order a replacement if you haven’t received one yet!

#WeAreTheUniversity

Getting the vote out across the uk

🚨 GETTING THE VOTE OUT ACROSS THE UK! 🚨
This Thursday, join us LIVE as branches from every corner of the country share how they’re driving the YES vote home. 💪📮

🗓 Thursday 13 November, 7PM
📺 Watch on UCU X and YouTube

VOTE NOW. VOTE YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity #UCULive

🚨 Reminder to post your ballot! Don’t wait - drop it in the postbox today!

If you haven’t received yours, request a replacement ballot NOW: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

If you’ve already voted, let UCU know: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...

#WeAreTheUniversity

Hospital workers to receive thousands of pounds in back pay after strikes It comes after a union said the staff have been working 'well above their salary band for years'

Hospital workers to receive thousands of pounds in back pay after strikes www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

Motion passed to raise a dispute with the education secretary over the goverment's failure to fund our sector

#UCU2025 congress has passed a motion to prepare to raise a formal dispute with the Education Secretary over the devastating funding crisis in higher education.

Our message is clear: if Labour won’t intervene, we will.

#UCU2025 #ProtectEducationNow #UnionPower #Post16Crisis #HigherEducation

Renewed call for Edinburgh University bosses to be grilled by MSPs on £140m cuts plan A trade union letter cited the potentially ‘devastating’ impact of the cuts

In £140m cuts, a £90m cut to staff is not only disproportionate, unfair and a failure to uphold the law on preventing redundancies, but could also seriously depress the University's income. Staff are sounding the alarm:
We will not stand for this!

www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

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Two members of UCU at Queen’s University Belfast sat at a recruitment desk in the Great Hall on campus.

Now, more than ever, it is important to: JOIN A UNION!

📣It is our firm stance that protecting students and staff at UEA requires us to fight compulsory redundancies with every tool we have.

🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us.

🚩Together we can #SaveUEA

The idea you can cut your way to profitability is baffling - says UCU @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.heraldscotland.com/news/2517000...