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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 7d

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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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 8d

Day 2 - more sunshine and happy faces on the pickets!

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Joseph Choonara @jchoonara.bsky.social · 14d

Superb Rally Against Redundancies at the University of Leicester, with hundreds of staff, students and supporters. @leicesterucu.bsky.social begins its strike on Monday.

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 14d

Our branch is proud to stand with our colleagues at @leicesterucu.bsky.social

Image of a UCU protest at the university of Leicester featuring a number of picket signs

image of a protest at the University of Leicester featuring a student banner reading "students and staff unite and strike"

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 17d

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

University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 23d

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

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 16d

Protest is 1pm Wednesday 24 September, at the University Road entrance to Leicester University

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 16d

Our friends at @leicesterucu.bsky.social are holding a rally tomorrow at 1pm. All DMU UCU members who are in the area, please consider stopping by to show solidarity!

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 16d

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?

uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

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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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 19d

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.
Support our striking members, donate to the fighting fund if you're able.
More details here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...

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Oxford Brookes UCU @brookesucu.bsky.social · 23d

Our branch secretary, @stuartwhigham.bsky.social, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Stuart outlines the impact that wider cuts to workload tariffs will have on our Associate Lecturer colleagues.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 23d

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

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 24d

Staff at @uniofleicester.bsky.social to strike for three weeks over plans to slash hundreds of jobs

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

Three weeks of strikes announced for university staff

Entire degrees could be axed

www.leicestermercury.co.uk

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 27d

As a union, we have been fighting employers’ attempts at making 100% pay deductions for ASOS legal since 2019. As a branch, we’ve been at the forefront of that fight since 2022.

Our own union going against our policies, workers’ interest, and legal cases hurts.

Letter: qmucu.org/2025/09/12/l...

QMUCU branch committee statement. We learnt with dismay about UCU Senior Managements’ threats of 100% pay deductions for Actions Short of Strike against Unite UCU members.

We oppose these threats in the strongest of terms. They breach union policy voted on in congress. They replicate the worst employers' practice. They contravene our legal work challenging ASOS deductions.

We express our solidarity with Unite UCU and call on UCU senior management to revoke these threats, protect all workers from disproportionate deductions, and negotiate with Unite UCU without preconditions.

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Caren Frosch @froschlein.bsky.social · 27d

We don’t want to strike. We want managers to sit down with us so we can work together to find alternative solutions!

Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 27d

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 27d

This would surely be dependent on retaining all the academic staff across both institutions?

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 27d

Greenwich and Kent merger ‘could create REF powerhouse’.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Greenwich and Kent merger ‘could create REF powerhouse’ - Research Professional News

Pooling research power may “serve as a blueprint for other partnerships”, expert suggests

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks again to @leicestergazette.leicester.news for following up on this story. £5m spent on consultants.

www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...

De Montfort University spent over £5m on consultants in five years

Exclusive: Campaigners question why huge sums are being handed to multibillion-pound companies when staff's jobs are on the line

www.leicester.news

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 29d

Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 29d

We sent solidarity to our colleagues at Kent and Greenwich, we are stunned that the news broke to them this morning at the same time as the rest of us

UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social · 29d

For everyone else reading the news this morning about the Kent and Greenwich merger - it's been as big a shock for us too.
Rumours always abound with constant cuts and redundancies, but they remained rumours until 7.45am this morning.

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · Aug 27

Solidarity with our colleagues in Sheffield!

Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ballot papers drop today for local industrial action to defend jobs at the University of Sheffield against redundancy and further workload pressures.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...

Strike ballot opens at University of Sheffield staff over job cuts

Staff at the University of Sheffield are being asked to vote for strike action, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today. The ballot opened yesterday and will close on Tuesday 30 September.

www.ucu.org.uk

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · Aug 24

Solidarity with our East Midlands colleagues. We are also experiencing this loss at present, with more to come.

UK HE is in a terrible state and some urgent action is needed.

University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today was the last day at the University for so many of our colleagues taking voluntary redundancy, with even more leaving in October.

We appreciate all of you and will miss you dearly. We will continue to fight so that others aren't forced into making the same difficult choice

A photo of people at a rally with signs that say "UCU says NO compulsory redundancies"

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jul 22

So, just to reiterate: PLEASE REGULATE THE USE OF EXTERNAL CONSULTANCIES, Government.

We all had a good laugh today, but it wasn't worth the millions this will have cost in tuition fee money going to some consultancy that is about to do exactly the same two towns over.

michael veale @michae.lv · Jul 22

Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.