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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 12d

“something something genuine concerns”…..?

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 18d

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?

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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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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · 29d

@drjogrady.bsky.social, you need to demonstrate the change you want to see. You cannot go after our Vice Chancellors while you’re yourself employing some of their worst practices.

Remember what you said, “a fairer future for all”. FOR ALL.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 29d

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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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Sep 10

Jo is intentionally omitting key details here. General Secretary, be transparent with your members for once, the ballot is on 3 issues:

1. Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points

2. Protection of national agreements on T&C's

3. A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects

University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 8

VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

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Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · Sep 10

There is no trade-off between pay and jobs. Don't let the employers fool you otherwise. This dispute is on three things:

1.Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points
2.Protection of national agreements on T&C's
3.A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects

#WeAreTheUniversity

University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 8

VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Sep 8

Same folks who seem unbothered by the mistreatment of our UCU Staff…what do you expect? Undermining the ballot before it’s even started is a great strategy . . . . . . .

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking forward to speaking at ‘Thinking Through Sound’ @ Sheffield Uni tomorrow!

Can a ‘muddy’ episteme resist capitalist and colonialist conceptions of clarity, convenience, and knowledge production, and can new ways of thinking with/through sound mess up, or ‘muddy‘ the waters, of the academy?

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 6

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties”

Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!

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UCU: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

Motion from UCU Congress 2022-2023: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

policy.web.ucu.org.uk

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Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Jo Grady finds new ways to undermine UCU every week.

TUC attendees should let her know their views.

Oh, and where is the outcome from HEC @drjogrady.bsky.social?

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 6

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties”

Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!

policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

UCU: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

Motion from UCU Congress 2022-2023: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

policy.web.ucu.org.uk

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Sep 4

That would require a) humility, and b) morals . . . Neither of which these people have.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sickening (but by now not surprising) behaviour from so-called fellow trade unionists. Solidarity, comrades.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Sep 4

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UCU senior leadership once again channeling the worst of our sector’s Vice Chancellors in how they treat their own staff.

These people are not trade unionists, they are self-serving cowards and a stain upon our movement.

Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

UCU deploys “vindictive” union-busting tactics in attempt to crush staff union

Unite the union members working for the University and College Union vote to take further industrial action with a 76% Yes vote for strike action on a 77% turnout This was their third consecutive s…

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Aug 18

Me, in my natural environment.

CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · Aug 18

Take a peek at our brand new LinkedIn Newsletter! 💥

We have launched a monthly newsletter over on LinkedIn. Subscribe to receive a summary of our research news, opportunities, and upcoming events.
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Participants at an interactive performance event.

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · Aug 8

"But they came here illegally"

1. No, they didn't. Seeking asylum is a human right protected under Article 14 of UDHR.

2. Even if they did, who even gives a fuck?! We would ALL break the law in a desperate situation.

Less chat of legality more chat of justice & morality pls

They're not the same.

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Aug 1

Solidarity, comrades. I am sorry that my union chooses to treat you this way. ✊

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Aug 1

Everyday I become more and more disgusted by and ashamed of UCU senior leadership, and those pockets of the membership that continue to support them and/or bury their heads in the sand.

UCU supposedly stands for a “fairer future for all”. That has to mean ALL. Not just the SMT’s sycophants.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Aug 1

😡 Targeting our reps
😡 Refusing to talk
😡 Imposing an office return with no equality assessment or hybrid agreement
😡 Breaching agreed procedures
😡 Unsafe levels of work-related stress

Just 5 reasons our ballot opens today for a Safe & Professional Workplace.

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Ballot opens today

Vote early, vote YES and YES The ballot over our Campaign for a Safe and Professional Workplace Culture opens today. Defend your contracts! Defend your reps! Stand up for Equality! Stand up for tra…

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Jul 30

We will be researching and making new work throughout August, alongside several other artists, building towards a group exhibition at GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn in Autumn 2025.

Thank you to GroundWork for selecting us. More soon . . .

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Jul 30

👋 Excited to announced that @ceciliawee.bsky.social and I will be Associate Artists for GroundWork Gallery’s fifth annual artist residency!

This year’s residency is titled Fluid Earth, and is part of their ongoing residencies themed around extractivism.

[📷 : Sea Wall Postcard by Sophie Marritt]

An image of the Norfolk horizon, taken from Gibraltar Point near Skegness. Image taken by Sophie Marritt.

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sahouraxo @sarahabdallah.bsky.social · Jul 23

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero:

“Israel is starving to death those it hasn’t already killed with bombs in Gaza.”

“90% of the population is in phase 5 famine, and soon 400 people a day will die of hunger.”

“This is extermination.”

“And Europe is on its knees before Israel.”

🇪🇸 🇵🇸

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Jul 2

Everyone bar the Greens here are fucking cowards

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨 BREAKING | House of Commons has voted to proscribe Palestine Action, making it an offence to support the group (max sentence: 14 years)

✅ For – 385
❌ Against – 26

Here's how each party voted 👇

William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Jun 28

Amazing win, well done everyone.

Yet another victory for militant industrial action, and a rejection of the nicey-nicey approach to SMT. ✊

UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · Jun 27

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jun 23

But what does “Never again” mean when they stay silent now?

When they ignore Gaza?

When they honour the victims of one genocide while enabling another?

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Unis Resist Border Controls (URBC) @urbc.bsky.social · Jun 19

The liberation of #Palestine & the sovereignty of #Iran are connected struggles❗

Print off our poster.

Colour and black & white versions available (copy & paste link): tinyurl.com/4fmjyeka

Stop Israel-US Imperialism❗

End Genocide in GAZA ❗

Stop War in IRAN ❗

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William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social · Jun 13

Disgraceful. Solidarity, friends ✊

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Wil Hardman @wilhardman.bsky.social · Jun 12

Deeply ashamed of my union behaving like the bosses we fight. Imposition, victimisation and union-busting needs to stop right now @ucu.org.uk. Solidarity with UCU Unite staff ✊

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Jun 12

😡 Imposition, not negotiated agreement
😡 Victimisation of reps
😡 Refusal to engage with the recognised union

☣️ All signs of a toxic organisational culture & not what we should see from a union employer.

Shame on @ucu.org.uk whose staff deserve so much better

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Safe & Professional Workplace Culture Dispute – Branch Update

A week ago today, SMT announced that they were walking away from ACAS talks. This came as a surprise to us given that it was our view, and the view of the ACAS conciliator, that we were progressing…

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