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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 20d

Stop. Copying. QMUL's. Worst. Practices. @ucu.org.uk.

Seriously, this is embarrassing.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 20d

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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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 20d

P.S.: it is our understanding workers are under no obligation to report participation in industrial action

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 20d

Watching what our own @ucu.org.uk union is doing to @uniteucu.bsky.social workers is making me relive a lot of hurt from when QMUL did this to us (I wasn't quite aware of how much this was still live trauma but whew...)

Absolutely unconscionable that *our own union* is causing this long-term harm.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · 20d

This is utterly despicable. They are bringing the union into disrepute. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 20d

This treatment of staff by a trade union employer (or any!) is despicable.

Jo Grady must resign (in shame). She is not fit to have her name associated with the trade union movement.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 20d

Who’d have thought that UCU senior management would look at the punitive strategies used by university management in local disputes and think, 'Ah, that’s a brillitant way to attempt some strike-breaking'?

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 19d

Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics?

It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU

It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage

Not in our name.

Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 19d

We hoped for a slightly different response to our letter to @ucu.org.uk in which we highlight how this is in breach of our union's policy, copying hte worst of #UKHE employer behaviour, and flying in the face of our legal cases...

No response yet but we get this further copying of toxic tactics?

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 18d

At our Emergency General Meeting, our branch unanimously voted in support of this solidarity motion with @uniteucu.bsky.social. This behaviour by @ucu.org.uk senior management is unacceptable and threatens the entire @tuc.org.uk movement.

Read in full:
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

The branch resolves:

To write to the General Secretary seeking the immediate withdrawal of any threat of deductions for ASOS made to Unite UCU members.
To submit a complaint to NEC and make a representation to NEC seeking an agreement that punitive deductions for ASOS should not be used by UCU because it is damaging to all UCU members, as well as to the particular ongoing campaign by QMUCU members to seek restitution and damages against our employer.
If no agreement can be reached, to make a second representation to NEC asking NEC to exercise rule 2.11 and, if needed, instruct the GS under rule 28.2 to withdraw the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS made to Unite UCU members.
To write to UCU legal services seeking urgent clarification on how the union will handle the disparity between supporting QMUCU members to challenge punitive deductions and enacting them against UCU staff.
To write to the TUC General Council calling for an investigation of the conduct of UCU SMT in accordance with TUC Rules 12, 13, and 14, in coordination with Unite-UCU.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 18d

We had hoped our own union's senior management would listen to our pleas to stop their breaching of union policy and jeopardising of members' legal cases.

We are deeply disappointed not even to have had a reply and have no choice but to raise our concerns via other routes.
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

This branch believes that:

Union management should not behave in ways that it would challenge in its members’ workplaces.
By threatening 100% ASOS deductions as an employer, UCU SMT is in breach of established UCU policy against disproportionate ASOS deductions, as adopted at Congress.
Threatening punitive deductions for ASOS against UCU staff is a failure of service to UCU members, because it directly undermines members’ right to take collective action, and members’ right to unbiased legal advice and support to challenge these deductions.

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 12

Sometimes solutions are easy @drjogrady.bsky.social & @ucu.org.uk

Let’s sit down and talk without conditions or threats that damage everyone. It’s time to resolve this dispute.

Our statement, with support from the following branch committees:

We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to:
• Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions.
• Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS - this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action.

Signed, 25 UCU branch committees (and counting)

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · Sep 12

Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

We are disappointed with this decision, which means our concerns around freedom of religion will not be heard in court.

Quakers denied intervention in court challenge over faith rights in terror law case

Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · Sep 4

The collective brain fade at @ucu.org.uk HQ showing no signs of abating. 🧵 👇🏼

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

Jo Grady calling Queen Mary management "vindictive" for making deductions from UCU members taking action short of a strike: Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary, said Queen Mary's senior management had "launched a vindictive attack" on its members, "punishing them for taking part in lawful industrial action" and "cementing its reputation as the worst university employer in the UK" She said: "It is wrong to do this at any time and all the more deplorable as staff struggle to make ends meet in a cost of living crisis."

Screen shot of the article from The Guardian about Queen Mary ASOS deductions in which Jo Grady is quoted

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · Sep 4

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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Wil Hardman @wilhardman.bsky.social · Sep 4

Shocking that UCU SMT are threatening to dock pay just for ASOS in Unite UCU’s dispute. Our branch is donating £150 + our Admin’s strike pay to their fund, with more to follow. We urge all UCU branches to donate asap to support our UCU staff strikers.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is beyond appalling. A union engaging in union-busting. All TUs should be calling on UCU to cease and desist, and settle with @uniteucu.bsky.social for the sake of the movement @tuc.org.uk @yourparty.bsky.social #rReclaimUCU

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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Scott Alexander @scottalexander.bsky.social · Sep 4

A trade union employer.

Read that again.

A TRADE UNION EMPLOYER.

One rule for members, another for staff.

#Unite #UCU #ASOS #TUC #TradeUnion #TradeDispute

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social · Sep 4

A thread of hypocrisy. As UCU GS Jo Grady calls out employers who dock wages for lawful industrial action. As an employer, she and her SMT are happy to do it to the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff. Sickening behaviour that does NOT make me #UCUandProud.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is a complete disgrace @ucu.org.uk
Sort yourselves out.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔥 Third ballot win in 18 months: 76% YES on 77% turnout for @uniteucu.bsky.social members! UCU Management’s response? Threats & intimidation 🤦

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · Sep 5

Gross gross VILE and corrosive behaviour, other HE unions should be refusing to work with UCU until Jo Grady & co are punted into the sun and proper amends made for this fiasco. Full solidarity with UCU workers who are being threatened with harsher punitive measures than many uni workers have faced

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Sep 5

100% deductions for ASOS is inhumane and destructive. We thought we had the backing of our own national union on this point. To see them implement what is a draconian policy (and not yet fully tested in the courts) against the colleagues who keep our branches running is devastating.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sending solidarity as an EIS member. An absolute disgrace that this is still on going.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

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