to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) who will be reviewing the scheme in June.

Please do get in touch with me/or UCU migrant committee if you are able to help.

We will be submitting the report by next week so this is short notice.

Thank you

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Our employer has today been sent official notification of our intention to ballot for industrial action over our Campaign for a Safe and Professional Workplace Culture:
drive.google.com/file/d/1jk4B3T…

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Congratulations to Fiona Mercer and well done UNISON - UK's largest union for defending all the way the right of workers to strike

All workers benefit from unions, and all unions benefit from this judgement- so thank you Unison.
#UnionPower 'mon the workers
unison.org.uk/news/2024/04/s…

Landmark Supreme Court ruling favours UNISON - UK's largest union and workers’ rights to participate in IA without punitive detriment or punishment. Well worth a read and such respect and gratitude for UNISON for taking this case all the way!

HE funding does need 'rethinking' but VCs can do one: for decades they have been happy to play financial games and hammer disciplines across the board in pursuit of surpluses they can use for self-aggrandisement and KPIs to boost their own pay.

They made this mess.

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.

The wild thing is that exorbitant VC salaries are justified by reference to private sector CEOs, yet when VCs demonstrate this kind of professional misjudgement and incompetence there are no shareholders or board of investors to sack them so they just blithely carry on destroying

Fellow UCU migrants an important announcement!

UCU Migrant Members Standing Committee is hosting a webinar with immigration lawyers Bindmans to discuss the recent changes to immigration rules.

📅25 March
⏲️12:30-1:30
📝to register email the equality team eqadminUCU.org.uk

Solidarity with Unite UCU They deserve better.

The following motion was passed by large majority at Sheffield UCU yesterday calling for an investigation into Jo Grady's record 16% pay rise, which seems to have broken a key manifesto pledge, the week after the close of the GS elections:

docs.google.com/document/d/1XZ…

I don’t know how to make the world care that people in Palestine are being starved, tortured, and killed…simply due to their identity. Just as they were in Bosnia. Just as they were in the Holocaust. Shame on them. Shame on all of us for allowing this horror to continue.

Thanks for inviting me
Fantastic to see Robyn Orfitelli, Jackie Grant Sussex UCU speakers from UEA UCU says join a union Aberdeen UCU #SaveUoALanguages Leicester UCU Goldsmiths UCU
+ mighty QMUL all making the case for a collective response to redundancy & restructure. Solidarity.
Join the fight! Power in a union ✊🏼

We'll have an all-staff meeting to discuss the future of the Faculty, and we're honoured to be joined by members from places that fought this recklessness Goldsmiths UCU Sussex UCU Leicester UCU UEA UCU says join a union Aberdeen UCU #SaveUoALanguages Sheffield UCU

14 March, 3pm, David Sizer and MS Teams

This is really disgusting. GMB are really going out of their way to be the worst trade union employer out there in a crowded field.

Well done to Aberdeen UCU #SaveUoALanguages! It’s crucial to recognise that management has done immense damage to staff mental health by pursuing these redundancies. One should be able to hope that they will reflect on that for the future. Time will tell…

STRIKE ACTION WITHDRAWN: SMT have agreed to lift the risk of redundancy from MLTI staff. A win! #saveUoAlanguages

UKRI should never have let Donelan push them around for political capital at the expense of compromising themselves badly + letting down the wrongly accused who were owed so much better
A tiny amount of research would have revealed the truth
Regrets, they have a few. Not enough