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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

💯 💯 💯 - these are the red lines that the national dispute negotiators should be taking to the negotiating room @ucu.org.uk 💯 💯 💯

Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Today we passed a motion asking for red lines for the 25/26 HE dispute:
✊ Moratorium on redundancies & course closures
✊ Enforce national agreements & fair pay for all
✊ Sector-wide 35-hrs week, no pay loss
We want to win this dispute on our terms!
bit.ly/4nIKgQF

Motion on 'red lines' for 26/25 HE joint dispute - Goldsmiths University and College Union

This motion was passed at the branch meeting on 13/10/2025. Please find the full text below: 2025-26 HE Joint Union Pay Dispute – Red Lines Motion This branch notes: This ...

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Today we passed a motion asking for red lines for the 25/26 HE dispute:
✊ Moratorium on redundancies & course closures
✊ Enforce national agreements & fair pay for all
✊ Sector-wide 35-hrs week, no pay loss
We want to win this dispute on our terms!
bit.ly/4nIKgQF

Motion on 'red lines' for 26/25 HE joint dispute - Goldsmiths University and College Union

This motion was passed at the branch meeting on 13/10/2025. Please find the full text below: 2025-26 HE Joint Union Pay Dispute – Red Lines Motion This branch notes: This ...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 1d

Fix the economy, Starmer.

We have no power over changing the economy; to blame universities for its ills and using it to hit us (& get ever more culture warriors on us) is just bullying.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A “challenging” graduate labour market in the UK could further erode trust in the higher education sector, with the “bad times” showing little sign of ending.'

All the more reason to have a serious, nationwide discussion of what universities do and what they are for.

Faith in universities ‘at new low’ as graduate jobs dry up

Challenging economic conditions may have led to bump in student recruitment numbers this year but experts fear long-term damage after institutions pegged futures to employability agenda

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

Support and share!

Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 1d

🚨UPDATE: We are delighted to welcome more scholars from Palestine to Goldsmiths. Our branch is committed to supporting them in every way possible. If you’re able, please consider donating to our fundraiser and sharing it widely🍉 chuffed.org/project/1496...

Support Incoming Goldsmiths Students from Gaza

Update (October 2025):

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uculondonoffice.bsky.social @uculondonoffice.bsky.social · 1d

The New Deal for FE ballot is OPEN!

Look out for your postal ballot & return it ASAP

VOTE YES to put pressure on the employers to negotiate the settlement we need in FE

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1419...

VOTE YES for a New Deal for FE

Members in around 70 further education college employers in England are to be balloted for industrial action following an inadequate offer for 2025-26 from employers' representatives.

www.ucu.org.uk

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

When your ballot paper arrives:

•Vote YES to tell UCEA that you want negotiation, not imposition.

•Vote YES to call for the broken market system to change.

•Vote YES to call for decent pay, conditions, and job security for all university staff.

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

3) A national agreement to avoid redundancies, course closures, and cuts to academic disciplines across the sector (we want negotiators to aim for STOP redundancies) 🛑🛑🛑 @ucu.org.uk

Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

2) Joint action to protect national agreements relating to terms and conditions of employment (end fixed term and precarious contracts please!) 🙏

Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

1) A pay uplift that is at least RPI + 3.5% or £2,500, whichever is the higher, on all pay points (our pay continues to simmer sadly under inflation 😫)

Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

Our demands are straightforward, reasonable and achievable. We are calling for (see comments):

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

VOTE YES WEEK COMMENCING 20 OCTOBER! National dispute incoming >>>> watch out for the ballot and request replacement if you don’t receive one soon! Some details about the dispute in the video from @ucu.org.uk on our TikTok www.tiktok.com/@ucuhqc483?_... (also give us a follow whilst you’re there!)

Lincoln UCU's Creator Profile

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 1d

What is going on @qmul.bsky.social ? This is not a good look! Solidarity @qmucu.bsky.social

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 2d

Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.

Where is the money? Cleaners, teaching associates, and trade unions haven’t had any of the money that isn’t part of the regular payroll since the beginning of the new financial year

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 7d

This is today 6.30pm! Register your place here: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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uculondonoffice.bsky.social @uculondonoffice.bsky.social · 12d

UCU - UCU to launch England wide college strike ballot over pay, workloads and national bargaining www.ucu.org.uk/article/1421...

UCU to launch England wide college strike ballot over pay, workloads and national bargaining

The University and College Union (UCU) today (Friday 3 October) confirmed it will ballot around 10,000 staff at 68 colleges across England in a fight for fair pay, manageable workloads and binding nat...

www.ucu.org.uk

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 10d

Solidarity @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social !

UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 11d

In the proud tradition of staff-student solidarity at Edinburgh, a moving call from EUJPS at our 8 Sept. strike rally to stand together against unaccountable and unethical management of University finance
#UCU #WeAreTheUniversity #DivestNow

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/ckdj6l6...

Our struggles are connected: from divestment to staff cuts — UCU Edinburgh

‘We stand with you because your fight for fair work is a fight for the soul of this University. We ask you to stand with us because our fight for ethical investment is a fight for its consci...

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 10d

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 12d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

moneyontheleft.org

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 22d

If you haven’t joined the union - time to do it right now! Better and stronger together 👏

#ucu #jointheunion #universityoflincoln

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 22d

A brilliant piece in the FT about the human and institutional cost of overreliance on international student fees. Managers are making our most vulnerable students pay the price of a failing funding model and are skewing the purposes of university in their pursuit of fees.
www.ft.com/content/3f49...

Page argues franchising — where students are disproportionately from poorer backgrounds — has been oversold as a means for widening participation. In reality, he says, it often leaves students behind, with outcomes “taking down our overall metrics”.

Staff were never comfortable with the franchise-heavy model, he says. “Voices were raised about their concerns, the things they saw and practices that didn’t align with our values, but they weren’t listened to,” he adds. “Now we live or die by our own work. We’re not going to be reliant on other organisations. I would advise any other university with large franchise numbers to do the same.” Buckinghamshire cut ties earlier this year with five of its former private franchise partners.

Even so, other universities are continuing to explore franchise models. For Queen Mary’s new “International Year One” in business and management, for example, it will outsource the teaching and recruitment for the programme to Kaplan International College, a for-profit group offering pathway courses into higher education.

Taught at Kaplan’s centre in London Bridge, the one-year course will enable foreign students to move straight on to the second year of Queen Mary’s business management undergraduate degree. Kaplan’s tuition fee is about £9,000 cheaper and requires lower entry grades and English language qualifications.

Queen Mary academics fear the Kaplan pathway, billed as the only one of its kind leading to a London Russell Group university, will not improve the academic preparedness of students.

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 22d

How would we react to something like this? We need to step it up @ucu.org.uk

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 23d

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how.

How would you react?

uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

Screenshot of email from UCU management which reads: ASOS Attendance Form - New Weekly Survey
Starting Monday 22 September, all staff will receive an email with a link to the new ASOS attendance form. This short weekly survey is mandatory for all staff, whether you were on ASOS or not. Please make sure to complete it each week, failure to do so may result in pay deductions. The cut off each week will be Friday at 5pm.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 23d

Strike starts TODAY!!!

Branch members will be picketing from 8 to 11 today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at UP's west, south, and north entrance and Jubilee's main entrance on Derby road.

Come show your support!

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · Sep 15

Strike action is ON!!!

Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you for your solidarity
@umucu.bsky.social
@ucu-ulster.bsky.social
@uculincolnbranch.bsky.social
@kclucu.bsky.social
@cardiffucu.bsky.social
@northantsucu.bsky.social
Nottingham Trent UCU
Kingston University UCU
University of York UCU

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 22d

Our friends at @leicesterucu.bsky.social are holding a rally tomorrow at 1pm. All DMU UCU members who are in the area, please consider stopping by to show solidarity!

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 29d

#WeAreTheUniversity

Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 29d

The dispute is on! More details and campaign will follow, keep an eyes on emails and remember - it’s not just about pay, it’s also about protecting our employment agreements and commitments to avoid more redundancies!

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 29d

Solidarity with @uonucu.bsky.social entering 4 weeks of strike - no to compulsory redundancies!

University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · Sep 15

Strike action is ON!!!

Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices.

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

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