@doc1807.bsky.social
Works as University academic. Also Dundee UCU rep. Outside interest of rock music, football and travel.
What a great turn out on the picketline.
Your members are really turning up in force to put management under the most pressure possible!
Solidarity from us all in Dundee
A true reflection of what university staff feel about the current Higher Education crisis.
If you missed the Scottish Parliament Committee’s evidence session on Wednesday you can watch it here.
Thanks to the ECYP Committee for inviting us to take part.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Another 200 job losses have been announced at the University of Dundee.
Read our response here news.stv.tv/north/dundee...
The current situation at the University of Dundee is that we are not getting our annual pay increase and that promotion processes are paused.
At the same time the uni is refusing to rule out compulsory redundancies, it is advertising over 20 new senior management jobs for academic staff.
Our members will be on strike tomorrow as we ask the University of Dundee executives to rule out compulsory redundancies until at least June.
Your support is vital.
Come and say hello, and show your support on our picket line from 8:15-9:45 at the front of the Tower Building.
We are also hosting a rally outside of the Holyrood building in Edinburgh tomorrow from 12:30-1:30pm.
If you’re in Edinburgh, come and join us, in better weather ☀️
The rally will focus on our and other campus unions fight against job cuts in the Scottish HE sector.
Today we strike to ask the University of Dundee to rule out compulsory redundancies.
Join us at the front of the Tower until 10am and then at Holyrood for our rally to defend Scottish Higher Education sector from 12:30-13:30.
Watch union representatives from Scottish universities give evidence to the Scottish Parliament on the crisis and how it is affecting staff and students.
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
Our students aren’t being heard.
“students aren't told anything at all."
"You really have to dig for all the information - online, on the website, through emails... unless you have the time to sit and dig through emails, you don't know what's going on," she says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Maggie wearing a dark blue coat standing next to 5 people, 4 of whom are wearing bright pink UCU beanies. They are holding the Dundee UCU banner. The Tower Building is in the background.
Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning.
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
Solidarity on the Dundee Uni picket lines today @ducuuo.bsky.social #solidarity #NoCuts #WeAreTheUniversity ✊🩷💜🩷
13.11.2025 15:10 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
We held a rally to mark one-year of the financial crisis at the University of Dundee.
We resolve to continue opposing compulsory lay-offs and a radical reshaping of the institution.
If we fight together we win!
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity
Day 1 of our 5 day strike done. Thanks to STV for coming along and interviewing members.
Come and have a chat with us at the front of the Tower any day this week.
news.stv.tv/north/dundee...
Solidarity to all of Dundee’s workers as they strike in the face of some of most caricaturishly mismanagement this sector has seen to date (although god knows the competition is heating up). May this venerable institution survive and thrive; victory to the strikers!
11.11.2025 07:36 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Day 2 of our strike action.Heres some photos from yesterday’s action.
Come and join us if you value jobs at the University of Dundee.
#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
Busy @ducuuo.bsky.social picket lines on day two of their week long strike to save jobs and oppose compulsory redundancies #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #NoCompulsoryRedundancies
11.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
A group of over 40 people stand listening to speeches at the front of the Tower Building at the University of Dundee. The people are on a picket line for Dundee Universities and College Union. Many are wearing pink hats with ‘UCU’ on the front.
Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike.
On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible.
Support our action to save jobs and save the University!
#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity
@maggiechapman.bsky.social @ucuscotland.bsky.social
We can also quote him word for word from a meeting with all staff on 1st July.
“I do want to emphasises the fact that it’s a pure voluntary severance scheme.
It will not be followed by a redundancy scheme.
There is no secret Plan B.”
Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee.
He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies.
Judge for yourself.
A link to the full press release on our successful re-ballot at the University of Dundee can be found here
sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/news-an...
We have voted to force management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies.
The result demonstrates the anger & disappointment with the lack of progress and failure of successive leaderships at the University to deliver a sustainable way forward that protects jobs and the University’s future.
Our members have voted to support industrial action to fight against job cuts passed today!
In the ballot our 72% of members were in favour of strike action, and 90% in favour of action short of strike. Turnout was 58%.
Thank you to all members, reps and officials for helping us get the vote out.
Remember when UEG told us “there was no plan B” for further redundancies.
Now we know, from the published Recovery Plan, that at the same time they were proposing over 400 future job losses including over 350 redundancies.
We cannot trust their words.
Vote in our ballot now to protect jobs.
Senate too also needs to advise Court on this appointment.
But Senate has not been asked to meet before Court will make its decision.
The Courier yesterday stated that Nigel Seaton will be staying on for another year.
We strongly oppose this reporting.
As they mention, Court will have to give final approval But this is reported as a done deal. It isn’t!
All Court members should be able to share their views at the next meeting.
The University Recovery Plan submitted by Court and UEG can now be shared. The campus unions are hosting a joint Townhall event to share the plan, so everyone can make their own judgements on what was proposed, including the number of redundancies.
Join us this Thursday 12:30 in LT3 Dalhousie.
Our ballot to renew our ability to take industrial action at the University of Dundee opens today.
Melissa D’Ascenzio, Dundee University UCU branch co-president, said: “The university’s students and staff have been badly let down.
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Unbelievable!
27.08.2025 15:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It’s been reported in The Courier that the University of Dundee’s Recovery Plan called for the loss of another 450 jobs (390 FTE) in the next year.
50 Voluntary Severance
170 Voluntary Redundancies
170 Compulsory Redundancies
With 110FTE leaving since March and 300FTE now, this would be 800FTE
