KCL UCU
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Official account of King's College London University and College Union. The purpose of a union is to empower members with voice + votes at work. Our values are democracy, equality, inclusion, fairness and justice.
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· Oct 22
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
🗣️ A rally is taking place TOMORROW Wednesday 26 Nov at 3pm outside KCL’s Strand building in solidarity with KCL student Usama Ghanem who fled persecution on Egypt and is now facing deportation after having his visa revoked by the College for his Palestine solidarity. Please join!
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🗣️ A rally is taking place TOMORROW Wednesday 26 Nov at 3pm outside KCL’s Strand building in solidarity with KCL student Usama Ghanem who fled persecution on Egypt and is now facing deportation after having his visa revoked by the College for his Palestine solidarity. Please join!
Keep it up folks! Vote now and vote yes for industrial action in the national @ucu and local KCL UCU ballots! If you have not received your ballot there is still time to order a replacement TODAY! The last ‘safe’ day to post your ballot papers is 26 November! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Keep it up folks! Vote now and vote yes for industrial action in the national @ucu and local KCL UCU ballots! If you have not received your ballot there is still time to order a replacement TODAY! The last ‘safe’ day to post your ballot papers is 26 November! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl
As part of Campus Voices for Palestine KCL UCU is delighted to invite you to ‘Confronting Scholasticide’ on Friday 28 November 5-6.30pm at KCL’s Waterloo campus. Speakers include @shahinazgeneid.bsky.social Dr Ahmed Abu Shaban and Bayan Haddad luma.com/go15utyg?loc...
KCL hosts Campus Voices for Palestine 2025 · Luma
KCL UCU is delighted to host the Campus Voices for Palestine tour again this year. As the final date of the UK tour, the event will coincide with the end of…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
As part of Campus Voices for Palestine KCL UCU is delighted to invite you to ‘Confronting Scholasticide’ on Friday 28 November 5-6.30pm at KCL’s Waterloo campus. Speakers include @shahinazgeneid.bsky.social Dr Ahmed Abu Shaban and Bayan Haddad luma.com/go15utyg?loc...
How are the national UCU and local KCL UCU ballots connected? Insights from our KCL UCU health and safety Officer @saiogradin.bsky.social #wearekcl #wearetheuniversity
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How are the national UCU and local KCL UCU ballots connected? Insights from our KCL UCU health and safety Officer @saiogradin.bsky.social #wearekcl #wearetheuniversity
‘Shared values?’ This is meaningless when your university invests in genocide. VOTE in our local ballot for Palestine and against this wilful silence against oppression www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/affi... ➡️ kcl.web.ucu.org.uk
Affirming shared values will help academic freedom weather the storm
The Magna Charta Universitatum matters more than ever as university freedoms become sharply contested, say Shitij Kapur and Liviu Matei
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
‘Shared values?’ This is meaningless when your university invests in genocide. VOTE in our local ballot for Palestine and against this wilful silence against oppression www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/affi... ➡️ kcl.web.ucu.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🗣️🗣️How is the UCU National ballot connected to and distinct from KCL UCU’s local ballot? An explainer from @jamiewoodcock.com KCL UCU’s branch chair ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🗣️🗣️How is the UCU National ballot connected to and distinct from KCL UCU’s local ballot? An explainer from @jamiewoodcock.com KCL UCU’s branch chair ⬇️
On November 2 we co-hosted a panel on freedom of expression on Palestine together with the National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social to protest over 270 Gazan journalist colleagues who have been slaughtered ⬇️
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On November 2 we co-hosted a panel on freedom of expression on Palestine together with the National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social to protest over 270 Gazan journalist colleagues who have been slaughtered ⬇️
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Sent off both my national and local UCU ballots today! Historical moment for our local ballot as we’re the first union branch to potentially organise industrial action over the repression of Palestine solidarity as a workplace issue.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sent off both my national and local UCU ballots today! Historical moment for our local ballot as we’re the first union branch to potentially organise industrial action over the repression of Palestine solidarity as a workplace issue.
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🗳️🗳️🗳️ hi comrades! A reminder to vote soon and #voteyes in BOTH the national @ucu.org.uk AND the local KCL UCU ballot! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🗳️🗳️🗳️ hi comrades! A reminder to vote soon and #voteyes in BOTH the national @ucu.org.uk AND the local KCL UCU ballot! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl
❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza
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October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
🗣️🗣️ calling all anti fascist educators and union members: TOMORROW 8 October at 8pm join the London Regional UCU online organising meeting about ‘Education. Immigration, and Racism’ it’s time to stand up to far right extremism and fascism in Britain 🗣️🗣️ ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Education, Immigration and Racism - Unite Against the Far Right. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Speakers:
* Jo Grady, General Secretary UCU
* Maria Chondrogianni, President UCU
* Kevin Courtney, Stand Up to Racism
* Charlotte Khan, Care for Calais
* Samira Ali, Women against the Far Right
6.3...
ucl.zoom.us
October 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🗣️🗣️ calling all anti fascist educators and union members: TOMORROW 8 October at 8pm join the London Regional UCU online organising meeting about ‘Education. Immigration, and Racism’ it’s time to stand up to far right extremism and fascism in Britain 🗣️🗣️ ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We've written to KCL Management urging them to urgently lobby UK Government to enable safe passage for Chevening Scholarship students from Gaza to the UK. Considering the level of institutional complicity that KCL has with the genocide, it's really the LEAST they can do. See our statement below.👇
August 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We've written to KCL Management urging them to urgently lobby UK Government to enable safe passage for Chevening Scholarship students from Gaza to the UK. Considering the level of institutional complicity that KCL has with the genocide, it's really the LEAST they can do. See our statement below.👇
An open letter to KCL management, condemning punitive misconduct disciplinaries against Palestine Encampment students, is currently circulating with 250+ signatories. We copy the text of the letter ⬇️
July 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
An open letter to KCL management, condemning punitive misconduct disciplinaries against Palestine Encampment students, is currently circulating with 250+ signatories. We copy the text of the letter ⬇️
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Not surprising to me that King’s College London is in this shameful league table @kclucu.bsky.social
'The Social Innovators for Justice has released the UK University Repression League Table, ranking universities according to their attacks on students, with suspensions, monitoring and investment in genocide' A worthy initiative. @anilsghost.bsky.social
updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-t...
updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-t...
Announcing: The UK University Repression League Table 2025
For the last two years, UK universities have attacked students for advocacy for Palestine, including censorship, restrictive speech policies, and the suppression of dissenting voices. These disgusting...
updates.techforpalestine.org
July 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Not surprising to me that King’s College London is in this shameful league table @kclucu.bsky.social
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@kclucu.bsky.social thanks to vice chair Pete Chonka for speaking @nujlfb.bsky.social www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2507parli...
'When the only journalists are being slaughtered...' | The Freelance
...how to report a genocide? Our meeting in Parliament
www.londonfreelance.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@kclucu.bsky.social thanks to vice chair Pete Chonka for speaking @nujlfb.bsky.social www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2507parli...
Results are now in on our consultative e-ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding ➡️ we PASSED the threshold for a valid result with 🌟91% 🌟sharing our concern that management is not doing enough to protect us and our rights kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...
Consultative ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding at KCL
VOTE to show management that you’ll take a stand for academic freedom and the safety of colleagues at KCL!
What is this dispute about? What are the demands?
In March, KCL UCU formally notified manage...
kcl.web.ucu.org.uk
July 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Results are now in on our consultative e-ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding ➡️ we PASSED the threshold for a valid result with 🌟91% 🌟sharing our concern that management is not doing enough to protect us and our rights kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...
This may not be about you, but it is happening to the people around you. Are you comfortable with that? Please vote in the KCL UCU e-ballot on academic freedom and safeguarding
Politically-motivated intimidation - designed to silence us - has overwhelmingly targeted women and non-binary people, BAME and junior colleagues + branch union activists. This is a racist and misogynistic campaign threatening the personal and job security of often precariously employed colleagues
June 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This may not be about you, but it is happening to the people around you. Are you comfortable with that? Please vote in the KCL UCU e-ballot on academic freedom and safeguarding
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Our new findings would be of particular interest to @sussexucu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social and @cardiffucu.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Our new findings would be of particular interest to @sussexucu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social and @cardiffucu.bsky.social
Great analysis from @parkesland.bsky.social on the connection between attacks on Palestine solidarity and attacks on trans rights. Relevant to our wider mobilising as a union and our current dispute about academic freedom and safeguarding at KCL UCU
The Starmer regime decided, on the same day, to proscribe Palestine Action and to impose trans segregation on the Parliamentary estate.
These are not unrelated events.
These are not unrelated events.
June 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Great analysis from @parkesland.bsky.social on the connection between attacks on Palestine solidarity and attacks on trans rights. Relevant to our wider mobilising as a union and our current dispute about academic freedom and safeguarding at KCL UCU
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The Starmer regime decided, on the same day, to proscribe Palestine Action and to impose trans segregation on the Parliamentary estate.
These are not unrelated events.
These are not unrelated events.
June 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The Starmer regime decided, on the same day, to proscribe Palestine Action and to impose trans segregation on the Parliamentary estate.
These are not unrelated events.
These are not unrelated events.
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Trouble at King's College London ⤵️
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We are in formal dispute with KCL because the institution has failed in its duty of care. Investigations into events have been delayed and onerous. In some cases, investigations have targeted our members causing severe distress, including those with direct family experience of the genocide in Gaza
June 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trouble at King's College London ⤵️
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Over the last year, your colleagues, comrades and friends at KCL have been harassed for defending Palestinian rights, upholding academic freedom and union activism. THIS is why we are balloting members NOW. But what exactly has been happening?
June 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Over the last year, your colleagues, comrades and friends at KCL have been harassed for defending Palestinian rights, upholding academic freedom and union activism. THIS is why we are balloting members NOW. But what exactly has been happening?
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Solidarity with colleagues at KCL! kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...
June 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Solidarity with colleagues at KCL! kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...