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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · Sep 6

The very least the @TUC could do.

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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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · Sep 4

This cannot continue. It brings UCU into disrepute. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social #ReclaimUCU now

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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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

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 · Jun 17

Abortion is healthcare.
Abortion is a human right.
Abortion is a trade union issue.

vickyblakeucu.uk/202...

#DecrimAbortion #AbortionRights #UCU #BodilyAutonomy

Abortion is a trade union issue

Why is abortion legislation in the news? Abortion is legal in the UK – right? Technically, for much of the UK, the answer to this question is “no”, despite widespread assumptions that the Abortion …

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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

uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/1...

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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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · Jun 12

It's so shameful

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 22

If you are a #UCU2025 delegate attending on behalf of @UCU members you really owe it them to educate yourself and the membership about what ails our union.

It isn't the hardworking staff.

Please be there

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · May 21

Unite UCU fringe at #UCU2025 Congress

When: 6.30pm, Saturday 24 May
Where: Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool

One of us, all of us: fighting for our members, our workplace, your union.

#YNWA

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 17

For UCU Congress delegates please consider supporting this motion. Please remember there will be survivors in the Congress hall and to be sensitive. It's not a lot to ask and I shouldn't have to ask but past experience tells me I need to.

Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse @drrhianelinor.bsky.social · May 17

For colleagues attending @ucu.org.uk Congress this week, a 🧵

Motion HE38 - thanks @leedsucu.bsky.social for bringing it. The motion is based on work with @the1752group.bsky.social around abuses of power in staff-student intimate relationships

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 17

They are not assault and abuse is assault and abuse. All such relationships should simply be banned.

Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 17

My deep gratitude to @leedsucu.bsky.social for doing this. As a survivor of sexual assault & harassment by my PhD supervisor who worked in the same institution as me and was a ucu member. As was I and when I complained UCU they did nothing because as you say 'such relationships are complicated '.

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 2

This dispute can easily be resolved. @ucu.org.uk should be an exemplary employer, not this. Members expect better

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · May 2

We are, and have always been, ready to negotiate - even when under attack.

Are you finally ready to talk meaningfully @ucu.org.uk ?

#StopTUVictimisation

Question...

CAN YOU NAME AN EMPLOYER WHO:
• threatens union officers with a disciplinary minutes before
ACAS talks?
• offers nothing concrete in said ACAS talks then walks away because the union won't agree to call off all strikes?
• writes deeply inaccurate and inflammatory emails to all staff?
• then issues public disinformation while threatening every union rep?

....Asking for a friend

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 2

It's as if that's the plan 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · May 2

Of course she has won. Of course they were wrong. And at a time when other Scottish Universities were calling for an immediate ceasefire. They could have just picked up the phone to their colleagues. This is not hard. And then there is international law too.

They put a brave woman through hell.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · May 1

A Scottish university rector has won her appeal against a decision to remove her from the governing body after she called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

St Andrews rector wins appeal after dismissal over Gaza comments

www.thenational.scot

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 2

Dundee University's governance failure is indeed a shocker.

Seconding ⬇️ #reclaimucu

Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · May 2

My speech at #STUC15 seconding Dundee Trades Union Council motion on University of Dundee Governance and beginning with a solidarity message to striking UCU staff in @uniteucu.bsky.social youtu.be/sDQla_8EqiY?... (begins 1:03:05 if the link doesn't take you there directly)

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · May 1

Glad @timeshighered.bsky.social is covering @uniteucu.bsky.social's dispute with @ucu.org.uk -resolution is beyond urgent (has been for over a year). But the content & tone of the UCU's anon quoted spokesperson feels emblematic of the underlying issues...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-mem...

UCU members boycott key meeting over staff strike

Members of national executive committee claim they were ‘prohibited’ from discussion of dispute with staff in Unite union

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 2

Solidarity. Members are with you ✊🏻✊✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 1

Please read this thread . I wholly endorse every word. ⬇️

Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · May 1

Glad @timeshighered.bsky.social is covering @uniteucu.bsky.social's dispute with @ucu.org.uk -resolution is beyond urgent (has been for over a year). But the content & tone of the UCU's anon quoted spokesperson feels emblematic of the underlying issues...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-mem...

UCU members boycott key meeting over staff strike

Members of national executive committee claim they were ‘prohibited’ from discussion of dispute with staff in Unite union

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 1

✋✋🏻✋🏼✋🏽✋🏾✋🏿

UCU @ MMU @manmetucu.bsky.social · Apr 30

✋✋🏻✋🏽✋🏾✋🏿✋🏿 #Solidarity

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Apr 30

Hands up who thinks trade unions should be model employers?

✋🏽 ✋🏾 ✋🏻 ✋🏿 ✋🏼

#ThriveNotSurvive

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UCU @ MMU @manmetucu.bsky.social · Apr 30

✋✋🏻✋🏽✋🏾✋🏿✋🏿 #Solidarity

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Apr 30

Hands up who thinks trade unions should be model employers?

✋🏽 ✋🏾 ✋🏻 ✋🏿 ✋🏼

#ThriveNotSurvive

Question....

Which employer has lost the following number of days to work-related stress and mental ill-health absences:
• 2022: 123.5
• 2023: 468
• 2024: 912.5 ?

Clue 1: They were sanctioned by the HSE for a failure to address stress in 2023.

Clue 2: They still can't demonstrate compliance with statutory minimum safety legislation in 2025.

.. Asking for a friend

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 1

Solidarity always with @uniteucu.bsky.social strikers. This dispute is a stain on trade unionism. #reclaimucu

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · May 1

Inspiring. Our members in UCU’s Northern Region have created a video for #MayDay to show the support for our industrial action.

Huge solidarity back at @ducu.bsky.social for the message from their own picket line & also to every UCU branch currently facing massive fights.

youtu.be/vAZVL1ZFM5A?...

MayDay Solidarity video from Unite members in the Northern Region of UCU: on strike today (01/05/25)

YouTube video by jonmbryan

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 1

Alongside @ucu.org.uk national executive committee members I won't attend UCU NEC tomorrow. Calling on @drjogrady.bsky.social & UCU's SMT to end the dispute with workers. Not crossing a picket line is a hard line for me: key tenet of trade unionism.
reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

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Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse @drrhianelinor.bsky.social · Apr 30

I won't be at UCU NEC on Friday unless @drjogrady.bsky.social and UCU's SMT resolve the dispute with workers. Not crossing a picket line is a principle of trade unionism as is accountability to members. Sad but proud to contribute to and sign this statement reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025

On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Apr 30

Hands up who thinks trade unions should be model employers?

✋🏽 ✋🏾 ✋🏻 ✋🏿 ✋🏼

#ThriveNotSurvive

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 1

It's not so much an 'internal row' as serial abuse. The power imbalance is causing the toxicity. As delegatee to Congresses and conferences, also members of the NEC we have both experienced and witnessed the toxicity. No wonder there are extremely high levels of sickness and absences. #reclaimucu

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Marian Mayer @marianmayer.bsky.social · May 1

I remember this well. Unite UCU members gave shocking accounts of treatment by UCU SMT. Some of which I have witnessed. The alternative social event was 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻