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We are deeply disgusted by the callous and short-term decision by university management to close our hugely successful Archaeology department. Our first priority is to our colleagues and members, who we will defend with all we have.
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HUGE NEWS FROM IMPERIAL! Their VC calls for an expert group to work on the valuation, and says they are prepared to "carry [their] share of the risk of staying on the current scheme" in the interim.
@JosephineCumbo
@sophie_inge
@jgro_the
#USS
#USSstrike
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can we get a special round of likes on this one please
#ucustrikes
- Vicky's due date is *today* and she's here supporting colleagues
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Today, a group of Labour councillors from Sheffield City Council made a decision to use a university building, walking past a group of striking Sheffield UCU members to do so. Our statement on this is below.
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Shout outs to: the parent at today's open day who said "Go ask them what they're striking about! It's important," & the one who said "What they are doing to you is unconscionable", & to every visitor who said they will be writing to the VC.
It means a lot to us.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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"In the end, I have negative 2 hours per working week to conduct my world leading, 4* research during the teaching term."
New blog post that should be *mandatory* reading for all of HR/management - "Workload in HE: The broken reality"
#Yes4FairWorkload
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We have learned that
@sheffielduni
are asking PG students to cross picket lines & spend all day checking if lectures are happening. What's in it for them? 2 hours' pay. Pure exploitation for a full day's work. PhD students: why not join
@UCU
for free instead?
#USS
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thrilled that Sir Keith has joined us on the picket this morning
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Yesterday, University Council decided to support UEB's recommendation to close the Archaelogy department. This decision is beyond short sighted. It lets down our university and the broader community, and it indicates serious and systemic deficiencies in our governance structures.
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the University has withdrawn its s188 notice and the threat of dismissal and re-engagement that was hanging over all staff has been removed. We're pleased to see this but remain disappointed at what was always a premature and unnecessary move by our employers.
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This is completely unacceptable, placing staff and students in danger.
We have written to the Director of Health & Safety to confirm that this situation is urgently rectified.
Students must have the right to peaceful freedom of expression.
🔒 PROTESTERS LOCKED IN CORRIDOR 🔒
Uni security have used D-locks to close all the exits (normal & fire) to the corridor being occupied!
This is dangerous and illegal. Press release attached for more info.
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HERE WE GO!
@UniversitiesUK
admit that they over-weighted Oxbridge in their response to the September consultation. Remember: they claimed that 42% of respondents wanted 'less risk' than originally proposed by
#USS
... (more)
@sophie_inge
@jgro_the
@sally_weale
@SianGriffiths6
Update:
@UniversitiesUK
has told the FT that Oxbridge colleges accounted for one third of the total wanting less risk.
It added that Oxbridge colleges “are employers in their own right”.
@MikeOtsuka
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Please, please remember: there is no justification for being abusive towards someone you disagree with, on Twitter or elsewhere. The ballot will have the unfortunate effect of dividing our membership. We urge all members to do all they can to stay friends with their colleagues.
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at the largest meeting we've held in years the branch has overwhelmingly voted no confidence in the University Executive Board over their handling of the coronavirus crisis
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So grateful to Bernardine Evaristo who used her honorary degree speech last week to make clear she stands with both staff and students in the dispute. You and us both. Thank you! ✊
#SettleTheDispute
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What a result!
#DefendUSS
#SaveStaffPensions
01/03 - Latest update from our President and Vice-Chancellor regarding USS valuation and industrial action
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Hi UCU, have you noticed your VC isn’t on the picket line? This might be because there's a Universities meeting for VCs up in Glasgow. Since they’re all in the same room, we think it would be a good chance for them to discuss what they can do to bring these disputes to a halt. 1/
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Want more scandal on
#USS
? The employer contribution rate was 18.55% from 83-97, then dropped to 14%, until 2011 for a 'contribution holiday'. What did this cost? Approx £7bn, more than the announced deficit!
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Over 6000 people marched to Sheffield City Hall for the TUC rally to support strikers, oppose government attacks on our
#RightToStrike
and say
#EnoughlsEnough
!
#ucuRISING
#PayUp
#SaveOurSchools
#PCS
#Aslef
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Day three of picketing, under a banner with the question we’ve all been asking: if one department can be targeted, against all reason, where does it stop?
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
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Local ballot results!
💥Over the threshold
💥73.5% yes for strike action
💥83.5% yes for ASOS
This is the third ballot result in favor of industrial action *this month*. Our members will not accept threats to our working conditions and our members' jobs. We stand together.💪✊
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So to confirm, then:
@UCU
's HEC throws out the 'agreement'! We're right back to where we were, but now even stronger! Anyone up for picketing tomorrow? YOU KNOW YOU ARE!
#USS
#USSstrike
#NoCapitulation
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Lastly, the recently announced decision to pursue 100% deductions from staff who are not themselves participating in the boycott, but refuse to take on additional marking, is punitive, and may have unintended consequences. 10/10
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this is what we're about: branch president and USS negotiator
@Sam_Marsh101
showing off his skills
#UCUstrikesback
#ucustrikes
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Sheffield UCU are extremely disappointed that the £50 voucher reward to university staff, announced by VC Koen Lamberts earlier this month as 'a way of recognising your contributions and to say thank you for the past nine months', will not apply to staff on casual payroll. [1/5]
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Our members have voted to accept the locally negotiated offer, and we will be withdrawing from the marking boycott.
A huge thanks to our members for holding together over what have been a difficult few weeks 💪. Please get some rest over the weekend!
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A much needed victory! The Home Office has announced that strike action will now be considered an exception to its rule on absences, and that "...there will be no immigration consequences for any migrant worker who takes part in legal strike action..."
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What kind of educator refers to students with lower marks as inferior products? This illustrates the kind of flawed logic behind Sheffield’s attack on archaeology
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
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This
@UCU
branch called on
@AlistairJarvis
to resign last month. Since then, he has led the sector into a dead end and proven himself to be lacking the competence and integrity needed to find the way out. Join us in saying"
@AlistairJarvis
:
#ResignNow
".
#JarvisOut
#NoCapitulation
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Great to have some lively pickets this morning 💪
Members say enough is enough! Time for employers to get serious and negotiate on our demands
#ucuRISING
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Great turnout at today’s rally to
#savesheffieldarchaeology
at
@sheffielduni
thanks to all
@shefunistudents
and staff who came out in support!
@ucu
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Standing in solidarity with our comrades from
@SYorksCouriers
for a joint rally. We continue to be inspired by their ongoing fight against precarity and poor working conditions
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Here's an important thing to do!
@UniversitiesUK
have been hiding away from all sorts of information requests because they're not currently FoI-able. Please sign and share!
#USS
#USSstrike
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Still not made up your mind on the imminent ballot? Here's our communications officer, Sam Marsh, explaining his thought processes, and why which way to vote should be an easy decision.
#USS
#USSstrike
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Great turnout across our pickets on a wet and windy morning 💪
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#USSMess
#NoLoveForUUK
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#USS
NEWS! Another VC joins the calls for more talks, this time David Latchman of Birkbeck. Are
@UniversitiesUK
even listening to their members any more? With
@UCU
also calling for more talks, students will be well aware who is to blame for upcoming disruption.
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Students are occupying multiple campus buildings in support for our action!
🚨 WE HAVE OCCUPIED HICKS!
There are now two UoS buildings occupied in solidarity with the
@ucu
strikes.
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
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There are 315 members currently registered for our EGM at 1pm, with more coming in every minute (now 317 since starting this tweet).
This is the largest number of members we have had register for an EGM since mangement threatened to fire and rehire all staff in Summer 2020.
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This afternoon, the Sheffield University campus trade unions have collectively registered a failure to agree with Uni management over the future of Archaeology and Languages at Sheffield, and systemic failures of governance.
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❗️We have more members than we have EVER had.❗️We're a large branch, we're getting bigger, we are now bigger than we've ever been. Thank you. Please join us.
#UCUStrikesBack
#UCUstrikes
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Today at a well attended general meeting with over 125 attendees, our branch voted overwhelming to initiate the process of calling local strike action in Intro week and Week 1 of term. We have notified management and once again asked for the Vice chancellor to meet with us.
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@SamGyimah
@BBCr4today
Sounds terrible! Good luck with that. Have you not picked up on what's uniting students and staff in the current
#USS
dispute?
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We're pleased to report that today the University of Sheffield has emailed over 1000 casual staff to set out what it is doing to support hourly-paid staff whose work has been disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. [Thread]
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OHHHH. MYYYYY. GOOOOOSH! The roving picket has WON the academic communities
@SheffieldSU
academic award! SOLIDARITY FOREVER! Students and workers UNITE AND FIGHT! ✊🏾✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿
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We are back in work for 3 days, but remember we are strictly back on ASOS. Please do not mitigate your own action by rescheduling teaching, posting replacement materials, or scrambling to make up for any other work that was missed during strike action.
#UCUstrikes
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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We have learned that Hicks occupiers have asked to leave but their belongings are being withheld unless they show ID.
To be clear, the students are trying to end the occupation of the building but are being blocked.
We have been asked for mediation support & are sending reps.
HICKS BUILDING UPDATE: University of Sheffield Security have locked the occupiers out of a Lecture Theatre with their property inside.
Last night, Security had agreed that when the occupiers left the building the property would be returned. 1/3
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Summary of our letter to VC Koen Lamberts on the Marking and Assessment Boycott, 23/05/23 👇🏻
We have been extremely disappointed in the approach that
@UCEA1
have adopted in this dispute, including their misuse of HESA data on sector finances. 1/10
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The march reaches campus. Solidarity forever. Teachouts from 1pm
@shefsolgroup
@UCUHallam
@SheffieldSU
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#UCUstrikes
#StudentStrike
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This is a beautiful show of solidarity from a member, and a reminder of why we are taking this action. Overwhelming workloads are a health issue. Everyone take care of yourselves and each other during this action. We are together in this fight.
#HEstrikesback
#UCUstrikes
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Remember last week when we said good news was coming? We can now announce a major positive step in our ongoing campaign for fair working conditions for university staff!
Exploitative casualised labour has no place in HE. 🚫🚫🚫
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We’re here in the rain and not going away! Time for management to come to the table
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"We would like to meet with
@UCU
as soon as possible to better understand the concerns raised by their branches, and seek an urgent, affordable solution to end this dispute." Is it just us, or has the tone shifted?
#USS
#USSstrike
UUK is planning more talks with UCU to end pensions dispute
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Really good news from the national talks! While the strike remains ON, there is hope. This
@UCU
press release is one of the best things you'll have read all day, especially the bits from the VCs.
#USS
#USSstrike
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We have just come from a productive meeting with representatives of
@SheffieldSU
and University management, including the Vice-Chancellor.
We will be emailing a report with further details, but the tone was positive and constructive.
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Between now and 30 June, 116 fixed-term contracts are due to end at
@SheffieldUni
. Many won't be extended or renewed. Every day for the rest of this month we will be posting
#PrecarityStories
from our casualisation survey, from staff facing unemployment as a result of the crisis.
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Also: top marks to
@MikeOtsuka
for digging. And thanks to whoever runs the UUK website for accidentally putting confidential documents in the public domain.
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We extend our solidarity across the water to the thousands protesting rape culture and demanding properly funded support services for victims of sexual violence in Ireland today. Woman all over the world have said
#MeToo
- now all of us must say
#IBelieveHer
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Looks like Sheffield Uni could be facing industrial action from multiple unions in the new year……..💪💪💪💪
We are balloting members. The pay offer is
#NotGoodEnough
so vote yes to strike for a better pay offer, from 6th December! Please check your emails for more details and keep an eye on the post for your ballot paper.
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Sheffield UCU members, and all of
@UCU
HE, this article is a must read. University management, including UEB and Council, have wasted at least £30.4 million, and possibly more, on a failed project, ignoring staff raising concerns about it for *years*.
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Great to have a visit from comrades at the
@FBUnational
🧑🚒 at our Jessop West picket
Workers up and down the country have had enough of declining pay and poor conditions
#EnoughIsEnough
#ucuRISING
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This week, student activists have occupied 4 separate buildings on campus: Jessop West, Hicks, the Arts Tower, & the Diamond.
We are incredibly heartened by this support for our action, & by students who have sent solidarity messages or visited pickets.
🚨 WE HAVE OCCUPIED THE DIAMOND!
Four fights, four buildings!
We also currently hold Jessop West, Hicks & the Arts Tower to demand the University:
👉 Supports the UCU's demands
👉 Does not close Archaeology
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
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we see your picket dogs and we raise you picket puppies: meet Freya, who is six months old and very happy to be demanding action on workplace inequalities
#ucustrikeback
#UCUstrike
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Missed our dangerously full meeting earlier? Here's the first motion, passed almost unanimously. This branch clearly considers
@UniversitiesUK
's proposal to need some work. >>> FULL TEXT >>>
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At 9am our picketers were unexpectedly joined by student occupiers, and conference delegates were unable to enter the building.
As always we are grateful for all the students who are supporting our action
#StudentStaffSolidarity
#ucuRISING
Rumours that the annual meeting of the Higher Education Strategic Planners Association may face some unfortunate disruption today…
📍Pickets at the Octagon 9am-5pm
Let’s show them who is the future of HE 💪
#ucuRISING
#StudentStaffSolidarity
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So. Um. Turns out we’re in the market for a new pensions officer. Any suggestions?
#UCUGS2019
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we're at the concourse for the smaller of our two rallies this week 😉
#UCUstrike
#UCUStrikesBack
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NEW! Does the decision to close
@UniShefArch
make financial sense? Not on UEB’s figures.
Read how details unearthed by an FoI request show that keeping Archaeology open makes
@SheffieldUni
£1.6m better off over the next 5 years.
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
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HELLO SHEFFIELD we are marching on Wednesday! Gather outside the Information Commons at 12pm, heading to Barkers Pool. Please spread the word far and wide
@SheffieldSU
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So many picketers! Firth Court, Jessop West, the Arts Tower, and our Running Picket 🏃♂️ which went down to visit our comrades at
@UCUHallam
#ucuRISING
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Late last night, we were informed that UEB are meeting on Tuesday, 25 May to determine the future of the department of Archaeology, and that options they are considering are the full or partial closure of the department, or to “support and invest...to ensure [its] future ”.
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Today we held an Emergency General Meeting with 200+ members, prompted by Council’s approval of the UEB recommendation to close
@UniShefArch
.
The EGM debated 2 motions, the first of which passed w/no opposition, & mandates us to enter into dispute. 👇
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Quite something! Not only could
@UniversitiesUK
have begun mediated talks IN JANUARY, potentially averting the strikes, but now they're dragging their heels and don't want to meet again until Wednesday. I'm sorry
@AlistairJarvis
: not nearly good enough.
#resignnow
#USSstrike
The
#USSstrike
talks end with no resolution as
@UniversitiesUK
say no more talks until Wednesday afternoon
#USS
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if your working pattern means today is your first day back after
#UCUstrikesback
#UCUstrikes
please remember we're still taking action short of a strike. Work a standard day and take a lunch break. Ask your manager for guidance on prioritising if you need it. We've got this!
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"National outcry as University of Sheffield’s world-renowned archaeology department faces threat of closure"
A petition has been set up to save the University of Sheffield's Department of Archaeology, and the hashtag
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
is trending
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Sheffield UCU members, there is a great deal to discuss, but the most urgent message today is this: you are not responsible for working this weekend to fill in upcoming gaps for next week. Do what you can starting *Monday*, and that will *not* be everything. And that is ok.
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Despite the increase to Alert Level 4,
@sheffielduni
plans to continue with face-to-face work during Intro week & as the Autumn semester begins. The campus trade unions have written to our VC to reiterate our united opposition to this irresponsible plan.
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Tomorrow there will be many things to say, but today, all we can express is disappointment.
Our sector is in crisis, as a direct consequence of choices by the current government and our employer.
We should be standing collectively, to demand change for a sector we care about.
HE pay ballot result:
70% of members in England, Scotland & Wales back strike action. 81% for action short of a strike. Turnout 41%.
Northern Ireland, where 50% turnout threshold does not apply, 68% back strike action. 82% back action short of a strike.
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Our general secretary elect,
@DrJoGrady
, addressing
#UCU2019
Congress.
“I have no hesitation in reaffirming the commitment I made in my manifesto to accept all of the recommendations made by the UCU democracy commission.” ✊
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Our members holding the line at the Wave today. We had hoped to be back at work today but management refuse to negotiate with us to
#SettleTheDispute
#ucuRISING
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Striking means we are not only withdrawing our labour, but also sacrificing our income. Both
@ucu
national and our local branch have funds available to support members on strike- do not hesitate to apply if needed!
It’s DAY 4 on strike for tens of thousands of university staff!
We are fighting not only to defend our pensions, but for the future of the sector.
If you can, show your support by:
🤝 Getting down to a local picket
💷 Donating to our fighting fund
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we hear that the VC has been exchanging supportive words with picketers at Firth Court - looking forward to our meeting tomorrow!
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the final rally of this strike, led by our
@SheffieldSU
with speakers from both unions and a crowd full of staff and students
#UCUStrikesBack
#UCUstrikes
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