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HE Ballot 2025 UCU began a formal industrial action ballot of members across the UK on Monday 20 October for 6 weeks.  UCU is calling for: a pay uplift that is at least RPI + 3.5% or £2,500, whichever is the high…

Nine More Reasons to Vote Yes:
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Ten Reasons to Vote Yes in the @ucu.org.uk ballot

1⃣ 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀

A YES vote strengthens the hand of your elected negotiators and your union in the face of a set of employers making massive cuts in pay and jobs.

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

#SpotTheContradiction #VictoryToDundeeUCU

This is a brilliant win for staff and is testament to the leverage that EIS action as well as the successful UCU ballot were able to bring ✊

We have lost a lot of staff through VR and we will be working at a severely depleted capacity - but the removal of CR is a win that should be celebrated!

📣 UWS HAS RULED OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES

After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉

UWS BALLOT SUCCESS!!! ✊✊✊

78/84% YES for industrial action/ASOS with a 62% turnout 🔥

UWS members - we have a meeting scheduled for Monday 12.30PM to discuss what this means and next steps. Please check your emails for the link and join!

@ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

Another lively picket from @eisunion.bsky.social UWS branch this morning! UCU members, Thursday is the LAST safe day to post your ballot - let’s make sure we can get out and join them to #protectourjobs & #saveouruniversity! ✊

EIS flag and members standing on the picket line

Solidarity again with @eisunion.bsky.social UWS branch on the 2nd day of strike ✊ Great to see so many students standing in solidarity& refusing to cross the picket line! They know members are taking this action to defend our jobs, our university and our students!

UCU members post your vote TODAY!

Pay uplift - Protect terms and conditions - Stop the redundancies

This crisis is far bigger than a single branch: vote YES join the fight to save higher education ✊✊

@ucuscotland.bsky.social

Strike action is ON!!!

Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Ballot being posted in a gold postbox

Golden postbox for extra luck! UCU UWS members, you have 10 days to post your ballot - don’t miss the deadline ✊

Use your vote to stop the cuts, protect our jobs, and defend our students & our university!

Striking workers outside university waving EIS flags

No ifs, no buts, no education cuts! @eisunion.bsky.social EIS ULA UWS lunchtime rally begins at 12pm, Storie Street entrance. UCU members drop by to show your solidarity! ✊

Photo of striking workers on the picket line in front of UWS

UCU sends full solidarity to the EIS @eisunion.bsky.social striking workers at UWS today ✊

EIS members are striking to #stopthecuts and #defendourjobs at UWS. Join the lunchtime rally at 12pm!

White envelope being posted in a red post box and a hand with thumbs up gesture

And that’s another vote for the re-ballot!! Get yours in ASAP - don’t leave it to the last minute!

Let’s do this ✊✊✊

@ucuscotland.bsky.social

Graphic with details of counter protest as included in main text, and photo of a man resembling Jesus holding a placard that says I was a stranger and ye took me in

📣 All out! Defend refugees at the Cladhan Hotel and support #Falkirk anti-racists this Sun 7th Sept. We need to keep up the fight and let the far-right know they are not welcome!

#RefugeesWelcome

📣 Sun 7th Sept, 11am
📍Assemble Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk, FK1 1UF

Photo of ballot envelope being posted with young baby

One of our members had a very cute assistant to help post the ballot this morning!

Get yours in before 25th September ✊✊✊

#babiesandballots

@ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

E-ballot envelope being posted into letterbox

It’s re-ballot time! After an 88% YES vote that narrowly missed threshold by 4 (!!!) votes, our re-ballot is open!

Post your ballot before 25th September!

Let’s do this! ✊✊

@ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social

Ballot closes in just under 2 weeks - make sure to get yours posted in time!

If you haven’t received one, contact the committee for a replacement.

Let’s do this!! ✊✊✊

NAE PASARAN ✊✊✊

✊✊ Get your ballots posted!!

What’s going on at the University of West Scotland? ‘UWS is a unique institution because it gave people like me a chance’

“UWS is a unique institution because it gives people like me a chance”

Brilliant article that shows how damaging the proposed cuts at UWS will be to students:

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/whats-going-...

@glasgowbell.bsky.social @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

University and College Union strike ballot at University of the West of Scotland in dispute over threat of compulsory redundancies A ballot for industrial action opens today at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) in a dispute over job cuts and university senior management's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies. T...

A ballot opened today at UWS, as the UCU branch there fights to save jobs and avoid compulsory redundancies! @ucu-uws.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1408...

Great to read our branch president, Jamie Hopkin, speaking out against the cuts in this article:

“what is being proposed will damage UWS’s crucial missions of teaching, research and widening access to higher education”

University staff ballot on strike action over job cuts College staff could be set to walk out on strike in a dispute over job cuts.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2529360...
@ucu-uws.bsky.social #StopTheCuts

Ballot opens today! ✊✊✊

UCU Scotland: proud to support today’s Aye Welcome Refugees demo #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StopTheFarRight

See you there!! ✊✊