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ucuqmu.bsky.social @ucuqmu.bsky.social · Sep 8
Solidarity with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh striking this week ✊🏻
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ucuqmu.bsky.social @ucuqmu.bsky.social · Aug 6
For colleagues following us here who may have missed the emails - please sign the petition against terms in the Hybrid Working Policy (specifically requiring staff to work on campus ≥50% of their time) speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/hybrid-worki...
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jun 27
Where management chooses to spend money is a political choice: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s...
Staggered reorganisations 12 restructure papers 90 at risk of redundancy in 3 months 2 voluntary severance schemes in 3 months Uncountable protected conv3rswtions Too lean professional service teams Where does qmul management spend money? Qs rankings: £252,000; waterstons: £882,000; Deloitte: £596,847; Eulogy:£131,320; NOUS Consultancy: £435,275; plot of land of £77 million
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jun 27
QMUL cut 200 roles in the past two years: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s... #SaveHE #UKHE
Qmul cuts 200 roles 60 lost to voluntary severance in 2024 80 professional service staff took VS in 2025 50 academics took VS in 2025 Strategic exits Redundancies in restructures Remaining staff with increasing workload
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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · Jun 17
Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies.

Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated.

People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew
Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response...
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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · May 1
Women’s rights 🤝 LGBT+ rights

As committees we do not recognise any conflict between our rights to bodily autonomy and dignity.

We utterly reject this ruling.
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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · May 1
UCU statements by its LGBT+ members' and Women members' National Standing Committees, on the terror unleashed on the trans, non-binary and intersex communities by the Supreme Court ruling. We unequivocally reject the ruling made by the Supreme Court:

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1400...
Statements from UCU women members' and LGBT+ members' standing committees
In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, UCU's women members' standing committee (WMSC) and LGBT+ members' standing committee (LGBT+MSC) have released statements...
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 1
Happy May Day and Solidarity with branches out on the picket today: @bcu-ucu.bsky.social @uea-ucu.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social did we miss any?
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UCU Westminster @ucuwestminster.bsky.social · May 1
Happy International Workers' Day!

#MayDay
The Labour Movement! The folks that brought you.... overtime pay, living way laws, parental leave, health benefits, the weekend and more. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will - Frederick Douglass. Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Apr 17
UCU stands with trans people, today and every day.

The Supreme Court ruling is not just wrong, it’s dangerous.

We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity
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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · Apr 17
Trans women have always coexisted amongst the rest of society.
The narrative that the Supreme Court ruling is about women being unsafe due to trans women is misleading. There is no data which proves trans women pose a safety threat to women. It is a media narrative and it is false.
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Mar 5
Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Mar 17
The Scottish TUC is warning of more redundancies at three more Scottish universities - Glasgow, Robert Gordon and Strathclyde. At this level of funding, and with this structure, the Scottish Higher Ed system is basically holed below the waterline.
www.aberdeenlive.news/news/scottis...
Ministers urged to 'up their game' to help Scotland's struggling universities
The warning comes amid plans to cut jobs at Dundee University, as well as the prospect of cuts at both Glasgow University and Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.
www.aberdeenlive.news
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ucuqmu.bsky.social @ucuqmu.bsky.social · Mar 12
Hello @ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social members at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh - and beyond! We're over here now. Please let folk know 💬 #UCURising
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