We’re the UCU branch of Sheffield Hallam University. Do join and get involved! A lone voice at the workplace is a silent one but together we can be strong 💪
There are 8 student occupations in solidarity with the UCU strikes - Nottingham, Cambridge, UAL, Royal College of Art, Edinburgh, UCL, Exeter, and Brighton. 👏✊
If marking is so time consuming it merits 100% pay deductions why does
@sheffhallamuni
only pay its academics for 22.5 minutes per student per 10 credit module to set, mark and moderate assessments.
Is it
A) they underpay staff ?
B) deductions are disproportionate?
Or
C) both?
🚨!!!Breaking News!!!🚨
VC breaks ranks to join us on picket line!
Chris has pledged an immediate 20% pay rise for all staff on zero hours with a promise of permanent contracts by end of 2022.
More details here
We're hearing and seeing the phrase "return to work" quite a lot
@sheffhallamuni
but we just wanted to remind everyone that we never stopped working!
It would be more accurate and respectful of the pain of the past 6 months to use "return to campus".
Dear
@Hallam_VC
There’s a tsunami coming. We will witness many deaths. For some of us, these will be personal loses.
Managers cheerleading ‘innovative’ LTA, emailing long lists of new jobs, are failing in their duty of care.
We’ll do our best to function. That’s it.
We're receiving worrying reports from members. students they've taught F2F testing
#Covid
pos. Students isolating. Staff told keep teaching F2F!
@sheffhallamuni
this is negligent without testing!
How many staff/students isolating/tested positive?
#Sheffield
@UCU
@sheffielducu
We have all been deeply saddened by the news that we lost a colleague who passed away after contracting Covid19.
Our heartfelt condolences go to their family, friends and workmates.
Please look after each other. Keep your distance, cover your face and stay safe.
#noF2F
Brilliant visit to
@TheAMRC
Great example of how collaboration between
@sheffielduni
and industry is delivering
#LevellingUp
Manufacturing innovation leads to regional growth. Labour in government will apply the lessons from South Yorkshire across the country.
@olivercoppard
Members voted overwhelmingly (96% of 152) to register a "Failure to Agree" notice to our employers
@sheffhallamuni
we will not be bullied into risking the lives of colleagues, students, families and wider communities to meet arbitrary F2F teaching targets
#onlinebydefault
Update on redundancies at Sheffield Hallam University - over 120 academic staff issued letters. In addition,
@DrJoGrady
has written to the Vice Chancellor about SHU's planned breach of the national and local framework agreement 1/2
Cheers to UCU Vice President Vicky Blake for reiterating a vital message: be sure to both take your annual leave. It’s YOUR time not your employer’s. It’s not your job to be checking emails, picking up calls etc. Nothing is as important as YOUR RIGHT TO REST AND RECREATION 👊👊🏿👊🏽
Results are in!
@UCUHallam
retained our mandate to continue fightingfor better working conditions. 52% of members voted, 66% voting FOR striking and 82% FOR Action Short Of a Strike. We hope management are listening! This isn't over till you negotiate!
#UCUstrike
#FourFights
Action short of strike (ASOS) is WORKING TO THE ACADEMIC CONTRACT of 37 hours per week; so CANNOT BE A BREACH OF CONTRACT.Please IGNORE REQUESTS TO RESCHEDULE TEACHING due to strike action. ASOS has been in place since 25th November, as part of the national dispute, and continues
Strikes are not emotionally or intellectually comfortable experiences. The nature of a strike is confrontation. Strikes also nourish growth, not despite but because of this. We’re committed to honest, inclusive dialogue with one another to this end: growth.
We need to counter the narrative that our students don't support us, because most of them do and are an integral part of the action! We have the fab
@HallamStrike
and
@shupg4strike
on our picket lines and lobbying. How have your students supported you?
#UCUstrike
#UCUstrikesback
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Branch meeting today with 100+
@UCUHallam
members voted overwhelmingly (95%) for ….
🔥VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE in
@sheffhallamuni
senior leadership team🔥
It’s great to see the progress being made at Sheffield Hallam University’s new city campus buildings which are transforming a key gateway into the city centre.
On Monday staff and students will once again be united on our picket lines to defend HE. Sadly our employers would sooner see us strike than right the wrongs inflicted on staff and consequently students. Join us but if you can't 🙏🚨
#NeverCrossAPicketLine
🚨
#HallamOnStrike
@ucu
BIG NEWS
@sheffhallamuni
Our branch members voted 79% in favour of strike action unless you withdraw your threat of 100% deductions. Members check inboxes for advice and next steps
@ucu
@DrJoGrady
#ucuRISING
Following a packed branch meeting we can confirm that we are e-balloting members the latest local management offer, we are out on the national dispute next week, and we do not support
@PaulBlomfieldMP
crossing our picket line on Thursday.
Cheers also to
@DrJoGrady
who has just conveyed her congratulations to UCU Hallam. We are the first HE branch to ballot locally over workloads and get past the anti-union ballot turnout thresholds. We won’t be the last.
It’s official! We've been awarded Gold in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework for our approach to supporting students to succeed 🥇
The award recognises excellence in teaching, learning and student outcomes. Find out more 👇
Solidarity to all striking across the UK tomorrow. ✊ we take action to improve working conditions for all and our students' learning conditions. If you're not a member of
@UCU
there's still time to join us.
Please don't cross our picket lines!
Not 1 but 2 strike mandates from our amazing members. Management may not think highly enough of us to stop eroding our working conditions without a fight.
National: 75.62% Yes - strike 85.01% Yes - ASOS on 55.85 turnout
Local: 84.4% Yes - strike on 52.9% turnout!
Bring it on!
Since serving notice on our employer for strike action our branch membership has increased by in excess of 100! Members want a fighting union branch and a fighting union branch attracts members. Simples. Welcome to all new UCU Hallam members!!! Let’s welcome many more 💪💪🏿💪🏼
To everyone on the
#UCUstrike
:
✊🏾 Keep up the fight for good pensions.
✊🏾 Decent pay.
✊🏾 Equality.
✊🏾 An end to casualisation.
✊🏾 Manageable workloads.
These create the conditions for our universities to be amazing places!
Solidarity! I wish you success and power to the
@ucu
.
The building behind us cost at least £27 million, and already they want us in ANOTHER new building. But can't afford a pay rise or better conditions... suuuure.
This is amazing news! Well done everyone 53.8% turnout 61.4% for strike action and 82.5% ASOS
We are very very pleased with this result!
We know when enough is enough and our members
@sheffhallamuni
has spoken out clearly!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
🚨Tune in at 5pm for our pay dispute ballot results 🚨
@drjogrady
will be providing a summary of the results and an overview of potential next steps
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
Your solidarity means everything
@HallamStrike
👇👇🏿👇🏼 Do please come support our pickets, we love love our students 💜! Maybe do a roving picket line yourself and flashmob 😀 Bring music, sing and dance! See you next Monday
@hallamunion
@HallamStaff
@sheffhallamuni
📣 ONE WEEK TO GO! 📣
This is the last week of teaching before the
@UCUHallam
strike
✅ Encourage your friends not to cross the picket line
✅ Post messages of support for staff on social media
✅ Contact
@Hallam_VC
and ask him to add docked wages to the student hardship fund
Breaking news from above! "From this Thursday 5 November and for the time being, we will move to operating within the parameters set out in Tier 3 of our contingency plans" = ALL classes online + only those
#f2f
that can't be rescheduled to go ahead, but in safer conditions 1/
A little bit louder for the people at the back: it's not just about the money! It's about precarity, toxicity, inequality, and institutions' dismal 'leadership'. We strike for EVERYONE. ✊
#UCUstrike
#UCUStrikesBack
#Solidarity
We do not strike for our own individual circumstances! We strike because not everyone enjoys the same privilege some do. ‘I don’t want to fight for equal pay because I’m happy with my own salary’ throws under the bus all those uni workers with no job security
#UCUstrikes
Sheffield Hallam is in trouble. Insiders say the university has prioritised ‘vanity projects over people’
A London campus? Shiny new buildings in the city centre? We try to work out what’s driving a mass round of voluntary redundancies:
This is it folks, we MAB/Strike and we go big or go home (quite literally!). If you aren't taking part but want to support us, please RT and donate to our local strike fund:
Check emails for drop-ins, picket info, MAB guidance/templates etc
We got this ✊
very concerning that we are putting in measures to allow for more students to work more hours in part time jobs instead of actually making the cost of living for students significantly cheaper
Dear Sheffield Hallam University Students please see our message to you. We're sorry Management haven't thought it necessary to inform you of pending strike action that we're being forced to take to defend our working conditions.
#UCUstrikesback
@UCUHallam
are very concerned by the tactics and language used in these emails, and regardless of any contractual obligation the landlord may have to share data on students to
@sheffhallamuni
, the necessity and proportionality in this case is highly questionable!
I got the subject access request on my name back from uni and omg is it interesting, 190 pages all about me 🥰
Not gonna go through it all but some of it is really disturbing and worth knowing THREAD/
Disco: a place where people dance
Picket: a gathering of people outside a workplace as a (still legal) political protest
Disco Picket: the space of dance and politics
SHU UCU
#DiscoPicket
Wednesday 4th December 11am-12pm Hallam Square *ALL WELCOME / FREE ENTRY*
Lovely work
@JomcneillUCU
👊🏽👊👊🏿 Pensions are indeed deferred pay and that’s the message we must all get out. It’s not a benefit or perk which our employers can erode at their prerogative. It’s ours. All HE employees are on notice: you face the almightiest winter of discontent!
@JomcneillUCU
speaking at TUC congress in support of public service pensions said, ' we should all remember pensions are not a benefit they're our hard earned deferred pay! That's ucu are balloting all its members in HE'
@ucu
On 17th January 2024, our branch overwhelming passed this trade dispute motion in response to the unprecedented cuts to academic staff (costs).
We hope for meaningful negotiations soon. The ball is in senior management's court.
Sad when colleagues cross the
@UCUHallam
picket line who I know care hugely about education - if we stand together we can fight for a better & more equitable H.E.
#UCUStrikesBack
Cheers
@LHODonoghue
we really appreciate support from our students ! Students and lecturers both want a first class education system. How can you support us? By sending solidarity messages and photos to
@UCUHallam
and coming to visit our picket lines! We’d so love to see you ❤️