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Huge shout out to all artists who gave work to our art raffle & to you for splashing cash to support our relentless fight against brutal redundancies.
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Our colleague and comrade
@MichaelRosenYes
is not well. A stalwart at our teach outs and a giant figure in the movement, everyone here sends him much love, solidarity & strength x
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Look at the numbers for our solidarity rally! This is not a normal strike.
@GoldsmithsUoL
management has bitten off more than it can chew. We demand
#NoJobCuts
!
#Goldstrike
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Ever wondered how management sees you? Well, our SMT (which is trying to axe ~80-100 jobs) recently gave a fascinating insight into its thinking. 125 staff told they're at risk of redundancy were directed to an intranet page containing a presentation meant for managers. Oops! 1/4
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Very interesting development at
#Goldsmiths
as the Sociology Department has taken the decision to cancel all lectures & therefore seminars. Because it’s a department decision, it means that all ALs within Sociology will get paid
#UCUstrike
#OneGoldsmiths
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RESULT for local
#Goldstrike
ballot
@GoldsmithsUoL
. On a massive 70.2% turnout, 93.3% vote for action short of strike, 85.8% for strike!! Next stop, branch meeting Monday at 1pm to decide when to strike. For now, well done all on an incredible result.
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BREAKING: We now know the full picture on redundancies planned by
@GoldsmithsUoL
- at least 52 jobs. Alongside 32 professional services staff, SMT today served notice they are seeking to cut the equivalent of 20 full time lecturers in English & Creative Writing and History. 1/4
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🔥EXPLOSIVE thread on
#TaxiGate
@GoldsmithsUoL
: An FOI request has revealed that Goldsmiths warden
@FCorner
has spent nearly £20k 😲 of College money on taxis since she took up her post in August 2019. 1/14
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BIG WIN! Short course tutors at
@GoldsmithsUoL
, who were previously paid only for teaching hours and not for hours spent in course preparation or student support, nor holiday pay, have forced the university to recognise them as workers!
@LeighDay_Law
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"We are now the means by which bankers can extract interest payments from education!" This is a MUST WATCH.
@MichaelRosenYes
in a powerful critique of the role of
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
at
@GoldsmithsUoL
.
#Goldstrike
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Please read our motion in response to the de facto suspension of Head and Deputy Head of MCCS Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany for sending an email to students to clarify the impact of our boycott and provide support.
Escalations to follow:
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This is superb. Students at
@GoldsmithsUoL
, organising as
@GoldFeesStrike
, are withholding over £200,000 in tuition fees in solidarity with
#Goldstrike
and to demand a fees rebate. Sign up here!
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"You will set a marker for every other university in the country"
@jeremycorbyn
at his barnstorming best describing the significance of our three week
#Goldstrike
! Inspired by our action for
#Nojobcuts
at
@GoldsmithsUoL
? Contribute to our strike fund
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We have been informed that
@GoldsmithsUoL
have decided to move to an extremely punitive “opt-out” system of deducting pay for strike days: from 9 Feb, ALL staff will have to submit a form indicating that they are NOT on strike or face deductions. This is completely unacceptable.
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The anger of staff and students at
@GoldsmithsUoL
and other London uni's over
@FCorner
's disastrous ideological restructure is palpable. This restructure will wreck Goldsmiths. Save face and stop this NOW or have a ruined institution as your legacy.
#GoldStrike
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Thank you, as ever, for your support,
@jeremycorbyn
✊❤️
Deeply concerned by the summary suspension of
@GoldsmithsUCU
Professors
@lazebnic
and Gholam Khiabany.
Explaining to students the implications of strike action is unquestionably in their best interests — suspensions in such circumstances are an affront to due process.
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Banner drop from the
@GoldsmithsSU
building on the final day of
#Goldstrike
. It reads "Liberate our education, Solidarity with workers". ❤💙💜
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📣 Students don’t come to
@GoldsmithsUoL
to become robots.
Nor accountants.
Nor management consultants.
They come to learn, to think, to fight.
Listen to
@MichaelRosenYes
- he knows the score ⬇️
#NotADoneDeal
#SexyAndPoor
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⚡️TWITTER STORM⚡️ Mon. 1 August, 12-2pm GMT
4 weeks ago, 2 senior academics and prominent trade unionists
@GoldsmithsUoL
were suspended for being open and honest with students. Des and Gholam must be reinstated. Details + sample tweets👇
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📢We got the result (86% for strike, 70% turnout), now we need to raise a strike fund! This is a dispute of national significance: we can't allow banks (
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
) to dictate job cuts. Help us take action! Watch > learn > DONATE > share
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BREAKING following a 28/02 branch meeting, 73% of members voted in favour of further industrial action this term including, EIGHT days of strike action on Wed 16 - Fri 18 March & Mon 21 - 25 Fri March.
#GoldStrike
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Our
#Goldstrike
begins today. Support by using the hashtag! See you on the picket and at our rally at 12pm. ✊🏼
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BREAKING! With SMT rejecting all counterproposals set forward for savings by staff and trade unions, we are left with no choice but strike again. In a branch meeting on 19/01 the membership voted for an escalating strike through February 2022
#GoldStrike
(1/5)
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“We’re here to make things better and to stop things getting worse”
@garyyounge
back on our picket lines for the 3rd time
#UCUstrikesback
#UCUstrikes
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Woah, check out tomorrow's
#Goldstrike
picket line-up:
😍Owen Jones
😍Apsana Begum MP
😍Michael Rosen
😍Gary Younge
You don't want to miss it. TOMORROW (Mon 6th Dec) 8am-1pm, RHB main entrance!
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The students' speech at today's storming of Senate House. They highlight the human cost of
@FCorner
's reckless restructure of
@GoldsmithsUoL
, the gaslighting behind the "deficit" and how these plans will effectively kill the soul of Goldsmiths. Video 1/3
#StormingOfSH
#GoldStrike
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BREAKING:
@GoldsmithsUoL
senior management today sent us a formal Section 188 notice stating that it intends to make 32 staff redundant *in professional services alone*. Planned additional cuts to 8 academic departments are yet to be announced . We have a fight on our hands. 1/2
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On Wednesday 27 July GUCU accepted a deal to bring our current dispute to an end.
We pay tribute to the immense courage and support from our students who stood by us throughout this lengthy struggle and staff who participated in actions.
After inspiring collective action for nearly a year,
@GoldsmithsUCU
have secured a deal incl:
➡️ No further compulsory redundancies
➡️ Review of fixed-term contract use
Our members deserve huge credit for facing down
@GoldsmithsUoL
senior management 💪
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📢CONCESSIONS!
Thanks to our amazing negotiators, resistance from affected staff + huge strike mandate we have:
❗️DELAYED the
@GoldsmithsUoL
redundancy process
❗️Members can strike without worrying about individual consultations, getting redundancy notices
And... (1/2)
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An echoey
@johnmcdonnellMP
assures the
@GoldsmithsUoL
picket line that “we are going to win this dispute”
#UCUstrikesback
#UCUstrikes
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As of the 4th January we are taking industrial action against our employer which is in the form of Action Short of a Strike including an assessment boycott.
Please donate to our solidarity fund for our casual members of staff :
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Our decision to invoke the very serious sanction of greylisting comes after months of lengthy discussions in branch meetings. We are dealing with a senior management team who are hellbent on pursuing their ideological restructure and who refuse to work with us.
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We will not accept these job cuts. We will not let them happen. What to do:
- Vote YES in the e-ballot for all forms of industrial action (see email)
- Attend the branch meeting tomorrow (Wed 29th) at 12.30
- Come to regular action committees to build the fightback. 4/4
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SAD NEWS! In order to safeguard the future of
@GoldsmithsUoL
, we have been forced to issue members of SMT with the following letter notifying them that their roles are at risk. Senior managers who feel anxious at this news are directed to the Wellbeing programme / free yoga.
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We are heartbroken to hear of the death of our former colleague and member David Graeber. He was a tremendous activist and thinker and always to be found supporting students in occupations. He made us think of life beyond capitalism.
American-born anthropologist and activist David Graeber — credited with the rallying cry "We are the 99%" — has died. He was 59 years old.
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Notices are served. The Marking and Assessment Boycott begins this time next week - Friday 19 April. Fighting against sacking 35% of staff in 11 affected departments.
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JUST IN: Biggest GUCU branch meeting in years votes by 191 votes to 1 for a "Failure to Agree", i.e. to ballot for industrial action (in the event management sticks to its planned mass job cuts)! This gives us the strongest hand in negotiations. 1/2
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@FCorner
,
@ElisabethLHill
and Co. have just lit the match and sent out redundancy notices to colleagues in ECW, History and Professional Services. We will continue fighting the vandals who are wrecking
@GoldsmithsUoL
. This fight is not over. By a long shot.
#GoldStrike
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Casualised lecturers at Goldsmiths are holding a virtual picket against job cuts today. Tweet your solidarity using the hastag
#saveourjobs
. More info
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We are honoured to have Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah with us. Join us in Reimagining Goldsmiths and ways we can democratise the university. Open to all!
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STATEMENT TO STUDENTS: 'Goldsmiths UCU Executive sends our gratitude to you for your solidarity and patience during these difficult and uncertain times. We care deeply about students – that’s why we strike.'
#Goldstrike
Full statement: 1/10
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The mismanagement of
@GoldsmithsUoL
under
@FCorner
has now left the Widening Participation team at the uni with NO Widening Participation support staff whatsoever from the beginning of April 2022. The entire team has taken posts at other uni's in London. 🧵 1/8
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#SaveGoldsmiths
solidarity rally, Fri March 5, 5pm. This dispute is crucial: if
@GoldsmithsUoL
management can make huge job cuts during a pandemic other institutions are at risk. Join
@johnmcdonnellMP
,
@Gargi_at_home
,
@zenscara
,
@MichaelRosenYes
@SaraBafo1
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At our extremely-well attended Emergency Branch Meeting, 92% of members voted NO on the abysmally-worded e-ballot circulated by
@ucu
yesterday afternoon. We encourage other members to do the same.
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That's right, we have a special guest joining the Day 15 final
#Goldstrike
picket -
@jeremycorbyn
! He'll speak around 12 but there's lots going on all morning. Be there!'
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📢STRIKE ALERT:
How dare management
@GoldsmithsUoL
Silence us in-person
Mute us online
Reduce us to numbers on spreadsheets
Insult our intelligence w/ their sham consultations.
We are downing tools.
We are withdrawing our labour.
Support our strike!
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News just in: The remaining external examiner for the MA in Literary Studies in the Dept of English & Creative Writing has just resigned in solidarity with
#BoycottGoldsmiths
.
The programme is now without any external examiners.
@FCorner
@GoldsmithsUoL
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Resistance to "change" (it's actually mass layoffs we resist, not "change" itself) is presented as some kind of individual psychological defect (a "threat response") rather than a collective, principled, political opposition to injustice. 2/4
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📢 Massive thanks to the legendary Professor Paul Gilroy
@bungatuffie
for his solidarity:
"The butchering of
@GoldsmithsUoL
by inept management and cack-handed consultants provides a dismal example of the deterioration of UK Higher Education."
JOIN US AT 3PM DTH GEN ASSEMBLY.📣
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Now Owen Jones takes a stand on the
#Goldstrike
Day 10 picket to speak up for our fight for
#NoJobCuts
at
@GoldsmithsUoL
!
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Beautiful and emotional speech from Black British History student,
@paulaakpan
. 🧵
Vid 1/2 on how her lecturers (
@seefryar
and
@hannahelias
) and professional staff (
@NevenkaMartin
) have consistently put students first.
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Dear Goldsmiths Students, we would like to express our apologies at the lack support you have been given by
@GoldsmithsUoL
to prepare for the coming academic year. Teaching staff have also been left in the dark about following issues 1/8
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From Wed 2 March - Fri 4 March,
@GoldsmithsUCU
will be on strike with
@unisongold
. Joint local strike action is unprecedented in the history of
@GoldsmithsUoL
and the history of the sector. It shows that all staff in the college reject the legitimacy of this redundancy process.
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We're on strike for
#NoJobCuts
at
@GoldsmithsUoL
from TOMORROW! We're asking supporters to do THREE things: 1) use
#Goldstrike
to boost our action, 2) SHARE our strike fund page (and DONATE if you haven't already!): ... (1/2)
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BREAKING: 🔥 Results just in for our local reballot against
@FCorner
's disastrous restructure of
@GoldsmithsUoL
Turnout: 57.3%
Vote in favour of strike action: 76.7% ✊💪
#NotOneJob
#StopTheRestructure
#StopFireAndRehire
#GoldStrike
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WOW😮
@GoldsmithsUoL
SMT has REFUSED our request for money saved from unpaid wages during strike to go into student hardship fund! SMT said it would instead use the money to reduce the deficit, i.e. essentially pay interest to
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
. (1/2)
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"This is a fight for a notion of education that isn't rooted in profit, but in expanding our minds and understanding our society." More from Monday's
#Goldstrike
picket line speeches at
@GoldsmithsUoL
-
@garyyounge
on 🔥🔥🔥here! Filmed by
@daisyasquith
.
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Today, we rally in support of the 16 staff targeted for redundancy, including our GUCU Co-President, one of our Treasurers and both Reps of the affected departments. This is our message to SMT, that we will continue to stand by our members and fight these callous cuts
#NotOneJob
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A pretty big line up of speakers for the picket line for
#Goldstrike
Day 6 tomorrow.
😮 UCU General Secretary Jo Grady
😮 Richard Burgon MP
😮 Michael Rosen
😮 Brian Eno
Come down, 8am-1pm!
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I think management is talking about us here?🤔Yes, as long as SMT is intent on mass redundancies, we will continue to "actively resist" rather than "change behaviour" 🙄3/4
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Another video of the graduation ceremony for
@GoldsmithsUoL
PhD students and another new Dr. making a stand to protest the unnecessary and ideologically-driven redundancies at Goldsmiths.
#GoldStrike
This is warden
@FCorner
's legacy.
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📣Good morning:
Deptford Town Hall’s Council Chamber is NOW OCCUPIED because SMT refuse to stop the unnecessary cull of jobs as part of a move to destroy the arts and humanities.
Listen to this
@GoldsmithsUoL
student's call for direct action and solidarity!
Please share ✊⤵️
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Watch our info-video about the redundancies taking place
@GoldsmithsUoL
and find out how you can help stop them.
‘Get involved, your union needs you. If we’re going to stop these cuts, we’re going to have to act together and act now’
Part 1:
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Calling all members, students, supporters, London based
@ucu
activists! Come to our opening
#Goldstrike
rally next Tuesday (23rd Nov) at 12pm to show the scale of opposition to
@GoldsmithsUoL
SMT's reckless austerity agenda and "partnership" with
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
! ✊🏽
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RESULTS IN Emphatic vote for industrial action in our indicative ballot of our members at
@GoldsmithsUoL
. Over 500 taking part (much higher than previous indicative votes)
- 95% for action short of strike
- 91% for assessment boycott
- 87% for strike
#NoJobCuts
#OpenTheBooks
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Day 1 of 2023 strike and the Richard Hoggart Building picket line is in full swing! ✊
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Please quote tweet us with your message of solidarity during the TwitterStorm this Monday, 7th Feb, 9-10am.
#GoldStrike
#BoycottGoldsmiths
. Tag in
@FCorner
and
@GoldsmithsUoL
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BREAKING! Following our unprecedented ballot result, a special GUCU branch meeting just voted 150-17 for 3 WEEKS of strike action against management's planned job cuts at
@GoldsmithsUoL
. Now workers need your DONATIONS to take action! Support the
#Goldstrike
for
#NoJobCuts
👇🏽
📢We got the result (86% for strike, 70% turnout), now we need to raise a strike fund! This is a dispute of national significance: we can't allow banks (
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
) to dictate job cuts. Help us take action! Watch > learn > DONATE > share
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❓Question for Goldsmiths management:
Will the skills- match questionnaire used to select staff for redundancy allocate any points for being a national treasure❓
#binthetp
#saveourjobs
#goldstrike
Exciting times at my university. Apparently I (along with many others) will have to have to prove I am working at the level of my role. Actually, I don't think I can be arsed.
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For
@guardian
,
@zoesqwilliams
writes about our connected struggles, about student-staff solidarity, about attacks on the arts and humanities, and about why “The Goldsmiths Crisis” is a crisis for us all - but it’s not a done deal.
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Stand with us and sign the open letter in Solidarity with Goldsmiths Workers
#saveourjobs
#binthetp
:
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MUST WATCH! 'So not Goldsmiths', created by
@daisyasquith
.
@GoldsmithsUoL
students explain that they chose the uni because they wanted somewhere critical and distinctive, not somewhere management use tuition fees to pay off
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
.
#Goldstrike
#NoJobCuts
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Hey
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
, how much profit are you hoping to make from the 52 planned job cuts at
@GoldsmithsUoL
? Students and staff are demanding
#NoJobCuts
!
#goldstrike
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Students and staff are outside
@GoldsmithsUoL
to demand that management,
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
#OpenTheBooks
so we know how much profit the banks are making from the plans for mass layoffs!
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Come rain or shine we're on the
#Goldstrike
picket calling for
#Nojobcuts
at
@GoldsmithsUoL
. This morning Vicky Foxcroft MP joined us to say no to compulsory redundancies.
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"Management has got to go!"* More
#Goldstrike
beauty from Day 2! A joyous yet angry samba march by
@GoldsmithsUoL
staff and students.
*Let's also stop
@LloydsBank
and
@NatWestGroup
from profiting from redundancies while we're at it!
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➡️
@weizman_eyal
writes for
@LRB
connecting three genocides: Gaza, Namibia and the Holocaust. Weizman's department, Visual Cultures, is one of eleven affected departments under threat of redundancies at Goldsmiths.
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First Solidarity and Sandwiches gathering of academics, professional services staff, students and supporters! Fridays 12.30 outside front entrance of
@GoldsmithsUoL
(RHB). The pandemic and being threatened with redundancy can be isolating; let's come together to build power!✊🏽
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A redundancy programme threatening nearly 1/3 of academic jobs at Goldsmiths begins on 18/3/24. This represents a nation wide assault on critical, cultural, and political education. We invite the TU movement, local community, students & staff to unite in defense of HE's future
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Our stellar
#Goldstrike
Day 10 speaker line-up of Gary Younge, Apsana Begum MP and GUCU's own Michael Rosen! Such a powerful array of voices against
@GoldsmithsUoL
management's planned jobs massacre.
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Read about the scale of the proposed redundancies published by the Guardian: ‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked
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P.P.S. Don't be surprised if our activists get "converted" into enthusiasts for mass layoffs. What are these "special interventions" they have planned?? 😯
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📢 “I hope Goldsmiths management reconsiders the proposed staff reductions.”
Thank you to director and Goldsmiths alum Steve McQueen for showing solidarity on the threatened job cuts which could lead to the sacking of 35% of academic staff across 11 of 18 departments.
#binthetp
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"What's in it for me"? Being made unemployed during a pandemic, via a process that has involved no meaningful consultation with the unions? "Carrot vs stick"... we're seeing an awful lot of stick at the moment. Plenty of carrots for the banks though.. 4/4
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🇵🇸Solidarity to Goldsmiths for Palestine occupying the library, demanding accountability from management.🇵🇸
Yesterday, on International Workers’ Day, the student-led group held a powerful rally joined by students, staff and comrades from other UK universities.
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Current plans to reduce staffing in the historic
@SociologyGold
by as much as *HALF* risk “reducing it to a corpse fit only for autopsy.”
Damning words of solidarity from Professor Les Back
@AcademicDiary
🙏
#NotADoneDeal
@GoldsmithsUoL
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👀ESSENTIAL VIEWING! Seen some of our
#Goldstrike
posts recently but not sure what the dispute is all about? Here's a lovely summary video of what's going down in the fight for
#NoJobCuts
at
@GoldsmithsUoL
. Produced by
@TassiaHackney
.
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#GoldStrike
Day 2. Lots of energy, camaraderie and bucket-loads of solidarity on the picket line.
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And the scale of the savings SMT seeks means more academic job cuts are very likely. 52 jobs lost at a small institution is huge. Workload would increase, courses would close, student experience would suffer. 3/4
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A message to
@GoldsmithsUoL
students. Our backs are against the wall, our only option is to strike to save 52 jobs. But we want to get back to teaching, supporting, working with you asap. See this vid from our branch co-secretary & read this message (1/3)
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"KPMG, hands off our university!"
@GoldsmithsUoL
staff and students, on Day 13 of
#Goldstrike
, taking the message to the heart of the beast,
@kpmguk
HQ!
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