Over 250 members of staff have written to Colin Bailey in the hope that Queen Mary University of London does not fail in our duty of care towards our colleague Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.

Full letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/193… #FreeNadera

The utter destruction of education in Gaza is devastating. 

University leaders have a moral duty to speak out & join us in calling for an immediate ceasefire.

The UK government & international community must step in to rebuild Gaza's education system: ucu.org.uk/article/13297/…

Higher education staff stand shoulder to shoulder with further education staff

All colleges need to agree deals and pay staff a proper wage

#RespectFE

Welcome to all new staff! Campus trade unions are today’s Introduction to Bath event, come and have a chat and join up. We’re stronger together!

🚨URGENT UKRI UPDATE

On Wednesday we gave UK Research and Innovation 48hrs to reverse the suspension of its Equality, Diversity & Inclusion panel.

It has not done so.

We are therefore calling on all UCU members with any voluntary positions at UKRI to resign.

Post below once you've resigned.

A reminder that if UKRI do not reinstate the EDI Advisory Board by the close of play today then we will recommend that UCU members withdraw from all advisory board positions.

No more both sides statements. A firm commitment or the campaign goes up another level.

Incredibly disappointing from UK Research and Innovation.

Our response:

The government is attacking UCU members. Please RT this thread.

Over the weekend a UK secretary of state used Twitter to attack and misrepresent academics.

This intervention was made to call into the question the legitimacy of work undertaken by the UK research institute.

🚨BREAKING: 99% YES vote to end USS pension dispute

Full restoration. 69 days of strike action in the making.

History. Delivered by you.

#ucuRISING

To every University of Bath UCU member who took strike action and stood on picket lines in sun, rain and snow: you fought and won for everyone on the USS pension scheme, and you can hold your heads up high.

🚨 HE MEMBERS 🚨

The MAB consultation on next steps has just launched ✉️

Please check your emails, ‘have your say’ and VOTE NOW

#ucuRISING

UCU pays tribute to all those who campaigned to abolish the trafficking of enslaved African labour, particularly the enslaved African men + women themselves. 

We recognise the contributions of people of African descent + support the call for a national day of remembrance.

A fantastically informative blog on the current USS consultation👇, by Jackie Grant, who is a national JNC negotiator for UCU as well as Sussex UCU's pensions officer. See in particular the 4 priorities listed in Section 5. 1/

🚨Extraordinary Branch Meeting, 2pm, Thursday 10th August, Teams🚨

All members are invited to discuss the next steps for the MAB and Four Fights dispute, to guide our delegates for Friday's Branch Delegate Meeting. Check your email for full details.

🚨BREAKING
 
We can confirm that USS is £7.4bn in surplus, and we are on track to restore  UCU members pensions and significantly reduce the cost of their monthly contributions
 
We’ll use the coming months to ensure employers fulfil their obligations
 
Your action did this 💪

Also taking a moment to remember all the well-informed members of the commentariat who used their platforms to - knowingly or otherwise - be the mouthpieces for people who wanted to slash pensions without justification

USS pension update klaxon. 📢The Technical Provisions consultation data, released today, indicates that the cost of restored pensions from April 2024 will be down to 20.6% of salaries. Read on for details. (Mark and Jackie thread) 🧵

For those who don't want to watch another video (🙃): member contributions going down from 9.8% to 8%, possibly even 6%; and full reversal of the brutal 2022 cuts. Timeframe: by April 2024, possibly earlier (under discussion).

📢JOINT STATEMENT📢

Between Newcastle University UCU and Newcastle University Executive Board which welcome national talks between UCU and UCEA.