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📢 Urgent Call to Action! 📢
1/5 UCU stands in solidarity with those fighting for justice & human rights. We've co-written a letter with
@USSU
urging divestment from companies complicit in Israel's colonial genocide. Join us in this crucial fight for justice!
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We are pleased that following negotiations and pressure from members Sussex VC has announced that staff will see 100% restoration of salary deductions for MAB participants upon completion of outstanding marking.
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Thank you
@UCU
for this statement of support for our our call for trans inclusion at Sussex. We are asking university management to issue a statement condemning bullying, harassment, trolling and doxxing of all staff, none of which we have engaged in as a a branch committee.
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Our statement in support of trans and nonbinary communities at Sussex can be read here. As it says, 'We do not endorse the call for any worker to be summarily sacked and we oppose all forms of bullying, harassment, and intimidation of staff and students.'
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UCU Sussex Executive Committee and Vice-Chancellor
@SussexUni
, Sasha Roseneil, have released a joint statement regarding the ongoing industrial action calling for negotiations to resume.
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📢📢USS ‘deficit’ - now negligible even by USS’s own fruity-loops calculation - will collectively cost Employers
📢📢£570 million a year in deficit payments from 1 April 2022
ALL INSTITUTIONS BREAKDOWN HERE
@USSbriefs
#ViceChancers
#NoGoodWill
#VoteYES
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
@IDS_UK
has agreed to support the UCU proposals, albeit with conditions. UCU will work with IDS to ensure there are no repercussions to our members. 1/3
#USSmess
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Confirmed - no pay deductions for ASOS at Sussex! Thanks for everyone's support on this
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Blown away by the solidarity today! We will hold it in our hearts as we push on through the next 7 days!
✊ Students
@StrikeSussex
&
@DrJoGrady
@fbunational
@CarolineLucas
@NEUnion
@unitetheunion
@SussexUnison
And colleagues holding pickets & standing strong❤️
#UCUstrikesback
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🚨 Doctoral Tutors update 🚨
We have just agreed with the University, starting this September, all tutoring at Sussex will be paid at Grade 6. This means demonstrators and other doctoral roles currently on Grade 5 – just over half the DTs at Sussex - will be uplifted to Grade 6!
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We're having a lively picket this morning with
@DrJoGrady
who visited our early morning strikers and gave an interview to
@SkyNews
.
It's Staff-Student Solidarity day today and our amazing students are behind
@ucu
100%.
Get down for our student rally from 9am!
#ucuRISING
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Seeing students continue to stand in solidarity with us is so touching ❤️
Taking action is always a last resort. We've been telling our employers about the crisis in higher education for years now.
It's on
@UCEA1
to settle this dispute round the negotiating table.
#ucuRISING
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New blog post: Sussex Council were misled on UUK & UCU proposals by our VC & Finance Director. Council will RECONSIDER SUPPORT for severe & discriminatory pension cuts.
#USSMess
#NoGoodWill
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@USSbriefs
@JoGrady
@Sam_Marsh101
@MikeOtsuka
1/5
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Sussex ucu members vote overwhelmingly to REJECT acas agreement.
#NoCapitulation
#ussstrikes
#ucustrikes
#strikeforuss
@GdnHigherEd
@GuardianEdu
@FinancialTimes
@timeshighered
@ucu
@UniversitiesUK
@AcasOrgUK
@sussex4ussevent
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Strikes Day One: our first shift of striking members have arrived.
Sussex UCU is proud is stand with branches up and down the country in the biggest strike our sector has ever seen! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏾
If you want to join them in saying
#EnoughIsEnough
join us now:
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Chair of Student Council
@SteveJack
on
@GBNEWS
"Once students have a conversation with striking workers they come to understand two things... Responsibility sits firmly with vice-chancellors and these striking workers are standing up for all of us"
#StudentSolidarity
#ucuRISING
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Power, respect and full solidarity with
@RMTunion
. Sussex
@ucu
members joined their Brighton picket early this morning. with our pink banner.
#RMT
strikes are giving hope, strength and inspiration to trade unionists and struggling workers everywhere!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Our University executive group
@SussexUni
have released a statement finally capping deductions at 50 days, meaning the maximum deduction any participant will face will equate with 12.5 days' salary. (25% of 50 days). 1/3
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June USS monitoring reports surplus. BUT now omits any data without benefit cuts, so we estimated it 🤓
🚨🚨USS estimated to have £0.3bn surplus, 100% funded WITHOUT APRIL 2022 DEVASTATING PENSION CUTS 🚨🚨
#ucuRISING
#USSMess
#NoGoodWill
@USSbriefs
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We've reached agreement with
@SussexUni
on several key issues. Negotiators worked incredibly hard this summer to secure concrete wins for our whole university community. This result shows us what collective action can do to improve conditions for everyone!
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Today we join half a million other trade union members across the UK on strike!
We reject UCEA's ridiculous pay offer. We demand a better offer AND commitments on pay gaps, workload and casualisation.
#ucuRISING
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#UCUStrikeSpotlight
On 20 Feb we
@ucu
begin 14 days of industrial action.
Our working conditions are unworkable and our student's learning conditions are suffering 👇
#UCUstrikesback
#FourFights
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With
@SussexUni
essentially carrying on
#BusinessAsUsual
& the many concerns we have received from members on
#COVID19
& social distancing, we wrote to Sussex leadership yesterday calling for urgent action on this escalating situation👇
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Last night we saw financial guidelines with shocking proposals for temp staff.
We are demanding urgent assurances no staff will be negatively impacted. We stand firm behind all members.
More than ever we need mmgt to respect & support staff👇
#COVID19
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Sussex UCU supports campaign for resignation of external examiners from the 93 institutions that voted for pension cuts (including from University of Sussex)
Please share.
@leicesterucu
@leedsucu
@GoldsmithsUCU
@sheffielducu
@BirminghamUCU
@qm_ucu
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Results are in!! Wowza!
84% of members who voted backed
#USS
strikes on a turnout of 67%.
80% of members backed strikes over pay and conditions on a turnout of 68%
#UCUStrikesBack
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To all our students at Sussex, we at Sussex UCU wish to send our deep gratitude for your solidarity and your patience over the course of these disputes. Student-staff solidarity is everything. We know this is not easy and how it hard this affects everyone. (1/5)
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The
@uniofbrighton
are attempting to make 110 academic staff and 30 professional service staff redundant. Over 400 academic staff are now at risk. Every school in the University is affected, however their School of Humanities and...
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We have just been alerted to this worrying communication and have not been consulted on its contents. We are urgently seeking explanation from the University Executive Group.
We have just received communication from
@SussexUni
that all temporary contracts should now be terminated where possible. Accompanied by, "I am confident that if we pull together we can get through this and come out stronger the other side." If by "we" you mean permanent staff.
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Lecturers being forced to eat vegetables from their allotments because they can't afford food is the 'painful' dystopian hell VCs envision and reveals the absolute contempt management have for staff.
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Day 3!
Good morning from Sussex. Pictured: our Falmer village picket.
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Motion carried unanimously by Sussex UCU Extraordinary General Meeting: “This meeting calls for the University Executive Group (UEG) to cancel immediate plans to withdraw the proposed Languages & Intercultural Studies degree programme ... 1/
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✏️New blog post alert! 📢 Our new interim VC David McGuire emailed all staff today with his rhetorical take on the upcoming
@ucu
strike action. We correct his misleading statements point by point.
@USSbriefs
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Thank you so much to everyone who made our emergency protest today!
This was the show of strength we needed ahead of crunch talks with university bosses!
Across the UK, the wave of solidarity has been magnificent!
You have nowhere to hide
@UCEA1
,
#SettleTheDispute
#ucuRISING
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Strike Day 2! Our early morning crew are setting things up and ready to rise since the wee hours!
Let's head to the pickets and make some noise! 📢📢📢
There will be songs, teach outs, and food!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Here’s USS’s funding ratio graphic now including 97% funded WITHOUT benefit cuts compared with 98% funded WITH benefit cuts
March 2020 was anomalous. But USS claim slashing benefits ‘put the scheme in a more robust position.’ 🧐
#USSMess
#OneOfUsAllOfUS
@USSBriefs
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Sussex UCU Deal signed & Marking and Assessment boycott lifted -
#FourFights
#USSmess
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#UnionPower
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Breaking News: Sussex UCU issues formal Failure to Agree Notice as University management repeatedly fail to rule out compulsory redundancies!
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Great sprits on the A27 early picket this morning, feat. the one and only Pensions Justice Queen Jackie Grant! 💸👑✊
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Bright and early at the Sussex bus stop picket (not that there will be any buses coming in thanks to the wonderful drivers).
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Together with
@USSU
we urge
@SussexUni
to stay true to its values and end police presence on campus with immediate effect. We call on the University to trust its own students and staff to take the lead in making its campus safe for all.
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Breaking news: Adam Tickell stepping down as Sussex VC to take up leadership at
@unibirmingham
. Stand by your windows, Charlotte. Solidarity with
@BirminghamUCU
- we feel your pain.
#FreeCharlotte
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Thread.
5 days of industrial & we are increasingly seeing desperate uni tactics to get staff back to work. Kent are trying to buy cooperation (🥕) whereas e.g. Sheffield are threatening up to 100% deductions for ASOS, which for them includes not rescheduling class (🏒).
5 days!
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The most lucid analysis so far I've read of the 'offer' (twt 5)
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1/ Sussex UCU has passed a motion on Palestinian solidarity and academic freedom by an overwhelming majority vote, last Wednesday 8 November, following a well-attended EGM called by the Branch.
#PalestineSolidarity
#Motion
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Feeling the Santa solidarity on the picket. All we want for Christmas is a pension, job security and a more equal workplace!
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This is a major win for a new
@ucu
branch bargaining with a private provider in HE.
When people say 'what do strikes accomplish', say this, this is what strikes accomplish! Show your this to your colleagues. Power resides in the union, in the collective, not with the employers.
🚨🧵
Following discussions at ACAS we have been made an offer in response to our claim which we are balloting members on.
Our negotiators recommend we accept.
For the avoidance of doubt, our strike remains ON until members have spoken on this offer.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Student demonstration starting now at Library Square. Student/staff solidarity here at Sussex! Join the movement against pension cuts.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#SussexUCU
@USSU
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Sussex UCU branch send our solidarity and support to striking staff at Queen Mary and other universities, who are facing union busting tactics by their management 1/3
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Big thank you to Derek who's been here at the Sports Centre entrance keeping us safe this morning. Bear in mind that Derek works on zero hour, hourly paid contracts.
#solidarity
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📢Sussex UCU Executive stands in unequivocal solidarity with Palestine and academic freedom! We condemn violence, support free speech and reject the silencing of voices. Read our statement for more: ✊🇵🇸
#Solidarity
#FreeSpeech
#AcademicFreedom
#Palestine
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For all those that want the idea of free education to be dead. It's very much alive!!
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Great to be able to join
@GMBSussexBranch
@GMBSouthern
on their
#BrightonBinStrike
picket line this morning - day 9 of their fight for respect and appreciation from their employer! Lovely to see loads of
@ussu
students supporting too! Strike is rock solid and morale is high!
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To increase social media visibility of the strike, we will be starting a battle of the GIFs.
#GIFusourpensions
The below is essentially what this strike is all about:
@WarwickUCU
@sheffielducu
@SurreyUCU
@UcuSurrey
@GoldsmithsUCU
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YAAAAAAYYYY!!!!
Best News for start of year!!! A big internet congratulations please for staff at Sussex International Study Centre
@UcuIsc
✊👏
Winning UCU recognition with 70% of the bargaining group voting in favour
Hold the front page: over 70% of staff vote for UCU Union recognition in official ballot at Sussex ISC (Study Group)
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We support the global boycott of University of Leicester!
Sussex UCU stands in solidarity with
@leicesterucu
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SUSSEX
#STRIKEFORUSS
TIMETABLE:
Events showing community and solidarity in the face of an assault on the academy which seeks to configure us everywhere and only as atomised, marketised, and financialised subjects.
We would like to thank everyone involved and
@USSU
!
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In the last two months, since the announcement of
#USSstrike
, UCU membership at Sussex has increased to over 1000 members - that's an increase of over 200 members. A union that shows strength and resolve is a union that grows.
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Good morning
@sussexucu
picketers!
It's a beautiful day to be out on the pickets showing we're not giving up & the strength of our
#solidarity
For those striking from home follow for updates & our amazing teach outs.
Let’s make this strike week count!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
✊🏻
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We're so smitten with our early risers! 😍 This early morning crew are hardcore!
Go show them some love on the picket lines! 😘
#ucuRISING
#BeMyValentine
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Our members continue to face wildly disproportionate deductions from
#sussexuni
. We demand ALL our deductions are returned.
To anyone at Sussex who is not MABbing please consider donating to our fighting fund. Our members need your help!
#ucuRISING
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Following 'Financial Review Guidelines' sent to Heads of School & others last week, the three campus unions
@SussexUCU
@SussexUnison
&
@unitetheunion
are in urgent talks with Uni Exec.
We have written this joint statement, outlining our position👇
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Sussex UCU president
@JoPawlik
and finance & pensions officer Jackie Grant have today written this letter to our Vice Chancellor asking for action over UCEA’s misleading claims.
Feel free to use and adapt at your institution.
1/2
#UCUrising
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📢📩First UCU Sussex newsletter of the 21-22 Autumn Term out now! Check your inboxes for important updates on branch committee changes, industrial action ballot, health & safety, fighting for doctoral tutor employment rights, and lots more! ]
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Thank you
@CarolineLucas
for supporting
@ucu
’s fight to protect staff working conditions, student learning conditions & the all-out assault on the value of education.
We need to see systemic change.
#UCUStrikesBack
✊
@BrightonUCU
@DrJoGrady
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Kel supports the union. Kel wants her human
@RRowanOlive
to have better working conditions. Kel wants to end precarity and inequality in higher education. Kel has had enough.
#FourPawsForFourFights
#FourFights
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#UCU
@DrJoGrady
@ucu
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We're sending our solidarity to. The amazing members
@GoldsmithsUCU
. Absolute legends!
In it to win it!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
Massive shout out to
@GoldsmithsUCU
who are on the 37th (!!!) day of their strike to save vital courses and to stop banks running our universities! From one branch who knows how exhausting a long fight like this can be - solidarity! Love Goldsmiths! ❤️⚡️
#GoldStrike
#UCUstrike
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New updated and animated version of
@Sam_Marsh101
’s graph from USS Briefs 106.
Now includes:
USS ‘best estimates’ (dots)
asset growth for a fully 100% funded scheme (dot-dash)
USS ‘prudent assumptions’ (dashed)
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Solidarity from
#strikeforuss
at Sussex to the hunger strikers at
#YarlsWood
detention centre. We are thinking of you and sending love and strength
@UnisNotBorders
@sussex4ussevent
@LGSMpride
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@StevenSalzberg1
@ashleyruba
Hustle culture is pretty terrible advice actually. You can love your work and work 40 hours a week. Working more than that is exploitation culture not virtuous passion.
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Breaking News📢📢📢: Sussex UCU declares dispute over threat of compulsory redundancies✊✊✊
Get The Vote Out for now for Indicative Email Ballot arriving in inboxes soon.
@DrJoGrady
@ucu
@leicesterucu
@ULivUCU2
@uelucu
@GoldsmithsUCU
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We strike from Wed 1st
#UCURising
. Starting with pickets on campus then joint march and rally with teachers, civil servants, and train drivers. With
@NEUnion
@pcs_union
@ASLEFunion
@BrightonUCU
and
@USSU
#EnoughlsEnough
#Brighton
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Absolutely smashing interview
@SteveJack
to the same stale interview questions. Nobody is fooled by attempts to frame workers as the problem (not even BBC interviewers). The responsibility for this disruption falls solely with employers.
#ucuRISING
“Staff working conditions, are my learning conditions.
Have you thought about the fact that I have to pay £9250 per year, I have £40k debt and I’m working three jobs just to be able to afford to go to university?”
@stevejack
talking in support of
@UCU
strike action
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2/ 🥁Spreadsheet above includes yearly ‘deficit’ costs for USS as a result
@UniversitiesUK
’s visionary leadership
E.g. Each year ‘deficit’ cost to Southampton £10m, Bristol £13m, Manchester £23m, Oxford £32m, Nottingham £13m, QMUL £9m, Goldsmiths £3m etc
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Thank you everyone for amazing
#UCUStrikesBack
solidarity, strength, tireless organising & campaigning, any-weather picketing, generous donations, knowledge-sharing & singing & dancing!
We have built strong bonds that will help us navigate uncertain times ahead, together ✊💞
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93% of respondents on
@DrJoGrady
's poll considering abolishing the role of VC. If VCs are "powerless" to protect pensions, restructure their institutions to end casualisation, close gender and pay gaps, then do we need to consider an alternative model?
#ViceChancers
#AbolishVCs
A poll inspired by
@sussexucu
, with news that 88% of Higher Education staff have no optimism about the future of HE, and 57% are unhappy about spending the rest of their career in HE, is it time to consider abolishing the role of Vice Chancellor?
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3/ 😭 Well done VC’s and Leadership Teams! Guessing institutions don’t need the money... or even actually care
… and on USS, who are now reporting a negligible deficit EVEN with their excessive prudence
🚨🚨🚨A vindication of
@ucu
's call for a moderately prudent 2022 valuation: Even on the excessively prudent assumptions of the 2020 valuation, as of 28 Feb 2022 it would cost only 25.6% (17.7% employer, 7.9% member, assuming 65:35 cost-sharing) to fund UUK's proposed cuts! 1/
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Amazing solidarity today at the RALLY FOR EDUCATION!
@BrightonUCU
@NUTEastSussex
@btnhoveNUT
@SMUnite
The workforce is strong 💪✊❤️
#UCUStrikesBack
#SaveOurColleges
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These people have been sacked for critical thinking... in a university.
This shows where the management logics of many universities are taking us.
It is dangerous road paved by ignorance and profiteering.
We see you!
Solidarity with
@leicesterucu
.
@ronald_hartz
is at risk because his research "displays profound questioning" of "mainstream management thinking".
#BoycottLeicester
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If it isn't Mick Lynch of
@RMTunion
ripping our employers to shreds. Not hard to be fair. But we're here for it 🔥
#EnoughlsEnough
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Colleagues all over Brighton are posting their ballots for a YES to more industrial action.
Nothing changes unless we change it. UUK are counting on doubt and inaction to deliver this intergenerational theft. They are dismantling HE as we know it.
Let's not let them.
#UCUstrike
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Please read our updated statement on face to face teaching and voluntary on-campus work at
@SussexUni
. "We believe that the messages from VCs [...are] politically driven rather than based on a sober assessment of the risks."
@ucu
@USSbriefs
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There's an argument that the furore over VCs' pay is just a populist distraction. It isn't. They had the unbelievable front to frame the pensions dispute in terms of 'affordability'
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🎶”Do you believe in life after work? I can feel something inside me say... I do because the union’s strong enough!” 🎶
#CherPicket
#UCUstrikesback
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We love our students stopping by to show their support ❤️
We’d rather be teaching them (out of the rain) but our employers aren’t listening
#UCUstrikesback
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