Waves of cyber-attacks on the 21 Group website First attack vector was LinkedIn post on the 'Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal' Disgruntled actors in Cambridge? Second attack came after article on 'The Student Cambridge Did Not Want To Protect' Transnational?

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A wave of cyberattacks on British academic blogs has raised concerns over efforts by authoritarian regimes to shut down research into human rights abuses https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/foreign-interference-fears-over-cyberattacks-academic-blogs

Workers are taking action and winning! ✊ From fighting pay cuts to demanding fair pay and better conditions, workers are standing together, taking action and winning better #JobsPayConditions across the country. Not a member yet? Join today: join.unitetheunion.org

👉 Unfreeze the tax thresholds 👉 A package of investment in British industry “reindustrialisation” of the UK 👉Take energy into public ownership 👉 Just transition for workers into a net-zero economy #TUC26

Sharon Graham: A just transition could be as transformational as the 1945 Labour government

LFF interviewed Unite general secretary Sharon Graham at TUC Congress in Brighton

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Powerful & devastating article on the Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal from Varsity The Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice "appears, at best, to be oblivious – somehow unaware of, or indifferent to, the poor treatment of academics under her leadership" www.varsity.co.uk/comment/32046

Ministry of truth

This is becoming part of a pattern: A tribunal found eleven counts of retaliation against a whistleblower. The University's response: it is 'carefully reviewing' the judgment.

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90 years since the Battle of Cable Street & we still stand together against division 📣 Join us in Shoreditch Sat Oct 3 for a night of music, solidarity & resistance with SPORTS BANGER & King Alpha Sound System... 100% of ticket funds will be donated to workers on strike 🎟️ Tickets cutt.ly/NyxG0SDv

The 2008 financial crash, covid, austerity, bills rising. It's everyday people who paid and are still paying, there's nothing left to give. A one-off emergency 1% wealth tax on the assets of the 'super-rich' would generate approximately £25 billion per year. 🎥🔽

It’s time to make the wealthiest pay their fair share and use that money to cut energy bills, ease the cost of living and invest in Britain. We cannot keep asking working families to pay more while the richest get richer. It’s time for action. #WealthTax

Workers are taking action — and winning! ✊ Unite members have won better #JobsPayConditions across a range of sectors: 💰 Massive pay rises 🚌 Air conditioning in bus driver cabs ✊ Union recognition 💪 Stronger workplace power Not a member yet? Join today: join.unitetheunion.org

Workers & household finances must be at the centre of the next Budget. 👉End freeze on income-tax thresholds 👉Do more on cost of living 👉Introduce a wealth tax 👉Prioritise workers' wages, jobs & living standards Stop making working people pay more. ⬇️

Labour under Andy Burnham given 'second hearing', union boss says

EXCLUSIVE: Unite general secretary Sharon Graham - one of Labour's most powerful union backers - tells The Mirror the Budget must end freeze on income tax thresholds

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Every worker facing redundancy at the University of Birmingham is from a migrant or minority ethnic background. UCU members will meet on 17 September to decide whether to ballot for strike action. No compulsory redundancies. Release the equality impact assessment. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

University of Birmingham staff to consider strike ballot over redundancies that fall entirely on minority ethnic staff

Staff at the University of Birmingham will meet next week to consider potential strike action in a battle against redundancies, the University and College Union (UCU) said today (11 September).

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Roshaan Khattak was a postgraduate at Wolfson College, Cambridge His research on enforced disappearances in Baluchistan attracted threats Instead of protecting academic freedom, Cambridge did not permit him to progress to the doctoral stage of his PhD 21percent.org?p=4367

The National Data Opt-Out mentioned can be accessed here, for UK residents not wishing to share their data: www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-dat...

‘Mistrust’ of Palantir may affect NHS research, says health minister

James Frith says patients may be less willing to share data as new figures show a rise in opt-outs

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📣 "We want to be fighting cancer. That's what we love to do. But we've been forced onto the picket line" Ahead of critical talks & after 60 days of strikes it's time for @icr.ac.uk to pay their researchers fairly Please help these vital workers get their voices heard. 📺 Watch & ♻️ share their story

Reform routinely attack universities as a "scam" and denigrate the value of higher education. The VC of Manchester Met and president of Universities UK should be defending the sector. Not cosying up to those who want to undermine it. Full response ⬇️ www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

University boss criticised for appearing at Reform UK conference

The University and College Union (UCU) today criticised Universities UK president and Manchester Metropolitan University vice-chancellor, Malcolm Press, for appearing at Reform UK's conference in Birm...

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No objection to paying high salaries for talent Universities are paying eye-watering salaries for managerial incompetence -- putting people in positions of power who lack the humanity, vision, or basic foresight to understand the consequences of their own decisions inews.co.uk/news/educati...

The seven elite universities losing millions of pounds… while bosses' pay rises

Russell Group universities are axing jobs and cutting courses as the sector faces a financial crisis fuelled by a drop in international students

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The ICR might be a world-leading centre of excellence, but when it comes to how it treats its staff, it is at the bottom of the pile. It is rolling in money and pays its CEO a fortune, yet still shortchanges the very staff who ensure its vital work continues.

Cambridge University's problems laid bare There's a troubling culture of institutional self-protection, with HR sidelining complaints and protecting the University’s reputation — while those who speak up for its core values and mission face retaliation www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Inside Cambridge bullying row that saw Judas pinned to professor’s door

The bullying and misogyny whistleblowing case exposes damning revelations about the culture in which some academics work

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We have a branch meeting coming up on Monday 7th September at 13.00hrs. Members will receive a link by email.

We have a branch meeting coming up on Monday 7th September at 13.00hrs. Members will receive a link by email.

💼 #KnowYourRights: Employers must follow a process to discipline or dismiss workers. 🤔 Did you know that you have the right to union representation at formal meetings? And union members get better results. Your right to representation in Facts and Figures from p65 www.unitetheunion.org/fandf

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Sheffield UCU members have had enough. Repeated restructures, job cuts and relentless change facing staff at the University of Sheffield. 84% of voting staff and PhD students recently said they have no confidence in university management. Please watch and share.

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Prices are rising. Household bills are rising. Workers deserve pay deals that reflect the real cost of living. Our pay should keep pace. It’s time for a fair pay deal. Read August’s Facts & Figures for the latest analysis on inflation and collective bargaining: unitetheunion.org/fandf

When you’re putting staff through redundancy, maybe don’t accidentally CC everyone into the same email. Wolverhampton University revealed the identities of staff at risk of losing their jobs in one spectacularly grim admin error. You genuinely couldn’t make it up.

Wolverhampton accidentally reveals staff at risk of redundancy

Impacted staff were all copied into a group email, prompting outrage

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Today’s #energy price cap increase is another nail in the coffin of household budgets this winter. The time for stopgap and ad hoc measures is long gone. We need a complete overhaul of the energy market based on public ownership to drive down bills and end profiteering.

Dolly Parton: a lover of pink, a lifelong champion of education and literacy, and a proud union member for more than five decades. An icon in every sense. #dollyparton #dolly Solidarity, always.

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CABLE STREET 90th ANNIVERSARY - Save the date

The Battle of Cable Street 90th Anniversary East London, Saturday 3 October 2026 Unite the union is hosting a major event this Autumn to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street...

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Tribunal criticised failure to investigate Prof Evans' whistleblowing concerns, while pursuing allegations against him for a prolonged period Senior leadership was directly implicated Now on gov.uk site, a permanent record os Cambridge leaderships's failures www.gov.uk/employment-t...

Professor N W Evans v The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge and Others: 3307960/2023 and Others

Employment Tribunal decision.

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