The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester
@ucudmu.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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And here we are! Literally every spine point is paying less in real terms than it was back in 2008. Spine point 5 (now replaced by the real living wage) is down by about 3.4%. By spine point 10, we're down over 10%. By spine point 23, over 20%, ultimately reaching a 22.1% reduction. 3/3
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
And here we are! Literally every spine point is paying less in real terms than it was back in 2008. Spine point 5 (now replaced by the real living wage) is down by about 3.4%. By spine point 10, we're down over 10%. By spine point 23, over 20%, ultimately reaching a 22.1% reduction. 3/3
Any DMU members in the Sheffield area, please do call in to the joint rally today. Solidarity to all.
JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Any DMU members in the Sheffield area, please do call in to the joint rally today. Solidarity to all.
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Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts
A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
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'The University and College Union (UCU) said a ballot of its members saw 82% vote in favour of strike action.
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 staff job losses...166 full-time equivalent roles in professional services, 17 in leadership roles and 82 in academic positions.'
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 staff job losses...166 full-time equivalent roles in professional services, 17 in leadership roles and 82 in academic positions.'
University of Derby staff vote for strike action over job cuts
Union members vote overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action over the planned cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
'The University and College Union (UCU) said a ballot of its members saw 82% vote in favour of strike action.
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 staff job losses...166 full-time equivalent roles in professional services, 17 in leadership roles and 82 in academic positions.'
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 staff job losses...166 full-time equivalent roles in professional services, 17 in leadership roles and 82 in academic positions.'
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After a truly awesome demo, acknowledgments are in order.
First, thanks to the @uclucu.bsky.social branch, Chris Pritchard (one of our NEC reps), the Leicester District Trades Union, the DMU UCU branch @ucudmu.bsky.social, and UoN UCU branch for their solidarity.
When we fight, we don't fight alone.
First, thanks to the @uclucu.bsky.social branch, Chris Pritchard (one of our NEC reps), the Leicester District Trades Union, the DMU UCU branch @ucudmu.bsky.social, and UoN UCU branch for their solidarity.
When we fight, we don't fight alone.
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
After a truly awesome demo, acknowledgments are in order.
First, thanks to the @uclucu.bsky.social branch, Chris Pritchard (one of our NEC reps), the Leicester District Trades Union, the DMU UCU branch @ucudmu.bsky.social, and UoN UCU branch for their solidarity.
When we fight, we don't fight alone.
First, thanks to the @uclucu.bsky.social branch, Chris Pritchard (one of our NEC reps), the Leicester District Trades Union, the DMU UCU branch @ucudmu.bsky.social, and UoN UCU branch for their solidarity.
When we fight, we don't fight alone.
here's our branch banner at De Montfort Square
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
here's our branch banner at De Montfort Square
DMU UCU is proud to stand with our colleagues at @leicesterucu.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
DMU UCU is proud to stand with our colleagues at @leicesterucu.bsky.social
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Confidence vote in our leaders is now open.
Please vote yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/Universit...
Please vote yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/Universit...
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Confidence vote in our leaders is now open.
Please vote yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/Universit...
Please vote yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/Universit...
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“We were absolutely gobsmacked.”
48 courses axed, music, languages, mental health care, childcare.
No consultation. No vision.
This is why we’re voting YES, to stop the destruction of our universities.
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
@uonucu.bsky.social
48 courses axed, music, languages, mental health care, childcare.
No consultation. No vision.
This is why we’re voting YES, to stop the destruction of our universities.
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
@uonucu.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“We were absolutely gobsmacked.”
48 courses axed, music, languages, mental health care, childcare.
No consultation. No vision.
This is why we’re voting YES, to stop the destruction of our universities.
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
@uonucu.bsky.social
48 courses axed, music, languages, mental health care, childcare.
No consultation. No vision.
This is why we’re voting YES, to stop the destruction of our universities.
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
@uonucu.bsky.social
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We need a mandate, because managers and their consultants have pivoted the purpose of our institutions from research & education to prioritising financial gain over everything.
Enough.
Staff and students need to be central in the decision-making processes and priorities again.
#SaveHE #WeAreTheUni
Enough.
Staff and students need to be central in the decision-making processes and priorities again.
#SaveHE #WeAreTheUni
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We need a mandate, because managers and their consultants have pivoted the purpose of our institutions from research & education to prioritising financial gain over everything.
Enough.
Staff and students need to be central in the decision-making processes and priorities again.
#SaveHE #WeAreTheUni
Enough.
Staff and students need to be central in the decision-making processes and priorities again.
#SaveHE #WeAreTheUni
There are a series of petitions relevant to the troubling situation at our fellow East Midlands institution, please do sign them if you can
PETITION HERE: Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham @uniofnottingham.bsky.social www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
www.change.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
There are a series of petitions relevant to the troubling situation at our fellow East Midlands institution, please do sign them if you can
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Meanwhile, at last report, the University had cash including short-term deposits of £139.4 million.
For all these reasons and more, vote YES in UCU’s national ballot – a strong mandate is the only way VCs will begin to take fair pay and conditions seriously.
For all these reasons and more, vote YES in UCU’s national ballot – a strong mandate is the only way VCs will begin to take fair pay and conditions seriously.
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Meanwhile, at last report, the University had cash including short-term deposits of £139.4 million.
For all these reasons and more, vote YES in UCU’s national ballot – a strong mandate is the only way VCs will begin to take fair pay and conditions seriously.
For all these reasons and more, vote YES in UCU’s national ballot – a strong mandate is the only way VCs will begin to take fair pay and conditions seriously.
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From a @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social member: "it is wrong to frame this as saying staff will have options, when all options correspond to a significant reduction from the status-quo, and the status-quo corresponds to decades long losses in academic pay. This endangers the future of the UK academia."
Northumbria University attempts to move employees to cheaper pension scheme to bring down sky-high contribution rates
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northumbria-freeze-staff-pay-if-they-refuse-switch-pensions
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northumbria-freeze-staff-pay-if-they-refuse-switch-pensions
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
From a @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social member: "it is wrong to frame this as saying staff will have options, when all options correspond to a significant reduction from the status-quo, and the status-quo corresponds to decades long losses in academic pay. This endangers the future of the UK academia."
We remind all members that we want to have a large show of solidarity - as large as possible - for our colleagues across the city. Please join us next Wednesday!
UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester.
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We remind all members that we want to have a large show of solidarity - as large as possible - for our colleagues across the city. Please join us next Wednesday!
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Be like Lenka from UoN and Marek from @ducu.bsky.social! Cast your ballot in @UCU.org.uk's national industrial action campaign today!
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Be like Lenka from UoN and Marek from @ducu.bsky.social! Cast your ballot in @UCU.org.uk's national industrial action campaign today!
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At a time when our society sees so much division, we need our colleges more than ever.
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
At a time when our society sees so much division, we need our colleges more than ever.
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
Another story about university leadership appears in the Leicester Gazette:
www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...
www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...
De Montfort University threatened to report staff to Prevent in response to online meeting
Exclusive: the troubled university is facing allegations of stifling free speech, in yet another spat over job cuts
www.leicester.news
October 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Another story about university leadership appears in the Leicester Gazette:
www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...
www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...
DMU UCU is sad to announce the passing of Alan Ryan, our former branch chair and a beloved colleague and comrade to many. Please see the link below for information on funeral arrangements.
alan-james-ryan.muchloved.com
alan-james-ryan.muchloved.com
Tribute to Alan Ryan, 1954 - 2025
Dedicated to the memory of Alan Ryan
alan-james-ryan.muchloved.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
DMU UCU is sad to announce the passing of Alan Ryan, our former branch chair and a beloved colleague and comrade to many. Please see the link below for information on funeral arrangements.
alan-james-ryan.muchloved.com
alan-james-ryan.muchloved.com
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The @ucu.org.uk "We are the University" ballots will be posted to members on Monday. Look out for a pink envelope at your registered address arriving next week. We encourage all members to vote and make their voice heard. #WeAreTheUniversity #LboroUCU
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The @ucu.org.uk "We are the University" ballots will be posted to members on Monday. Look out for a pink envelope at your registered address arriving next week. We encourage all members to vote and make their voice heard. #WeAreTheUniversity #LboroUCU
Private Eye once again reporting on the DMU leadership. Credit to the Leicester Gazette @leicestergazette.leicester.news who first broke the story.
October 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Private Eye once again reporting on the DMU leadership. Credit to the Leicester Gazette @leicestergazette.leicester.news who first broke the story.
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Day 2 - more sunshine and happy faces on the pickets!
September 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Day 2 - more sunshine and happy faces on the pickets!
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Superb Rally Against Redundancies at the University of Leicester, with hundreds of staff, students and supporters. @leicesterucu.bsky.social begins its strike on Monday.
September 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Superb Rally Against Redundancies at the University of Leicester, with hundreds of staff, students and supporters. @leicesterucu.bsky.social begins its strike on Monday.
Our branch is proud to stand with our colleagues at @leicesterucu.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our branch is proud to stand with our colleagues at @leicesterucu.bsky.social
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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
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
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
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
September 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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
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