UCU University of Greenwich
@ucugreenwich.bsky.social
University of Greenwich UCU Branch. Supporting educators and staff members at the University of Greenwich. UCU is the largest post-16 education union in the world. Go to https://greenwich.web.ucu.org.uk/ for details on how to join UCU and get involved!
And De Montfort University! Which other Nous-victims are there in #UKHE?
QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’d be entirely here for a Nous support group. The UK has Edinburgh, QMUL, Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Nottingham Trent already who can join us.
One of our members, Paula Sharratt, spent an afternoon asking staff, students, and community members for their thoughts on Future Nottingham. This is just a snippet of what they said. 📸: @tregenza.bsky.social
Branch AGM Tuesday 19th May at 3pm UK time: Zoom link in your inboxes. Update your diaries, folks!
Reduce Your UCU Subscription Cost by Claiming Tax Relief As we’ve entered a new tax year, it’s a great time to remind #UCU members that you may be able to reduce the cost of your union subscription by claiming tax relief from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Click the link for more details.
Reduce Your UCU Subscription Cost by Claiming Tax Relief – Loughborough UCU
As we’ve entered a new tax year, it’s a great time to remind UCU members that you may be able to reduce the cost of your union subscription by claiming tax relief from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
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A powerful message from three of our amazing SU officers on the damage being done to Goldsmiths by its management and why it matters. We’re forever grateful for our students’ support, an in awe of the incredible political work they do! www.goldsmithssu.org/news/article...
The only alternative is us. It's time to organise
We are seeing a clear picture of what our collective future as students should look like. What does this mean for us as students?
goldsmithssu.org
True consultation on restructures means staff and unions can shape the aims, timelines and criteria, and proposals can change substantially. If decisions feel predetermined and feedback is ignored, that’s not consultation – it’s rubber‑stamping.
Don't forget, folks - branch social tonight (Tues 24th) at 6pm at the Mitre pub in Greenwich!
While senior managers spent almost £14,000 on just one dinner, both unions, UCU and UNISON, continue to receive reports of professional but also academic staff resorting to food banks, especially towards the end of the month.
Senior managers spend almost £14,000 on attending awards dinner in Edinburgh. The University’s senior personnel attended the Times Higher Education Awards on 13 November in Edinburgh. We wrote to the Finance Director, on 1 December seeking the full cost to the University of attendance at the event
Branch meeting! THIS Thursday 5th February at 16:00 UK time. Zoom link in your inboxes or message us on the WhatsApp group. Social at the Gipsy Moth in Greenwich after if you like. We'll discuss London weighting, post-92 contract & fractionals, & of course the ever-present merger. See you there!
Colleagues were interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about @qmul.bsky.social's sudden escalation in taking down posters & threatening disciplinary action. It is a great explanation of what's happening & its dangers. Listen from 22min in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or clipped: youtu.be/SJGnCrDaCf0?...
Members of the administration at the University of Sheffield are threatening to lock out members of @sheffielducu.bsky.social who do not reschedule teaching lost to recent strike action. It's an incredibly damaging choice and a horrible precedent to set if it moves through.
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
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The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
ucu.org.uk
Please take five minutes today to email your MP, share how these attacks are affecting staff and students, and ask them to add their name to EDM 2479 “Higher education pension cuts” in support of secure pensions and decent conditions in our sector. 2/2
UCU members: MPs are considering an Early Day Motion on higher education pension cuts that condemns fire-and-rehire tactics, use of subsidiaries to undermine contracts, and threats of dismissal or pay freezes to force pension cuts. edm.parliament.uk/ea... 1/2
Higher education pension cuts - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House expresses its alarm at the growing number of higher education institutions deploying approaches which are having a negative impact on the pension schemes of academics and staff, including through fire and rehire proposals and other approaches tantamount to forcing workers onto worse contracts, terms and conditions; further expresses alarm that such actions have triggered trade disputes at institutions such as Southampton Solent and Northumbria universities, where staff are facing threats of dismissal and permanent pay freezes, respectively, unless they agree to pension cuts; insists that using subsidiary companies to circumvent employment rights and to undermine pay, terms or conditions is unacceptable behaviour that simply serves to negatively impact industrial relations further in a sector already suffering from mass redundancies and industrial action; calls on the Office for Students immediately to investigate institutions accused by trade unions of undermining pension rights to establish whether they are failing in their duties, including those relating to good governance and protecting the interests of students; and further calls on the Government to take urgent steps to prevent pension cuts and a race to the bottom in higher education provision, including through legislative change if necessary.
edm.parliament.uk
Merger update: the VC has confirmed that current Greenwich employees can remain in their current pension schemes (TPS & Local Govt) and the post-92 academic contract. Kent employees will keep their terms & conditions through TUPE: www.acas.org.uk/tupe/advice-...
What a TUPE transfer is - TUPE - Acas
What employee rights and employer responsibilities are in a TUPE transfer.
acas.org.uk
Get out, get your ballot, get it in and tell your colleagues. We’ve got this. Tomorrow is the last safe day!
Please sign this petition to register opposition to Northumbria University effectively stealing staff pensions by trying to forcibly move them from TPS to USS: this could create a terrible precedent (especially vital for UoG). Pensions are deferred pay & part of your agreement on working conditions!
Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Good news for our colleagues in Nottingham! A reminder that industrial action can work, and universty management can negotiate with a union that represents their staff.
University of Nottingham UCU branch@uonucu.bsky.social · 9mo agoIn response to our industrial action, the university proposed a resolution that removed the threat of compulsory redundancies for the next year and introduced a negotiation process over course closures. And at our branch meeting, we accepted this offer.
Today marks #DisabilityPayGapDay, the point in the year when Disabled workers effectively stop being paid. This injustice can’t be ignored. We need action to close the disability pay gap and deliver fair pay for all. ✊
UCU Equality@ucuequality.bsky.social · 9mo agoToday is #DisabilityPayGap day. The day when Disabled workers stop getting paid for the rest of the year.
Proposal to change legal name of University of Greenwich to 'London & South East University Group'. For 2026-27 academic year. If you wanted to change the name of a *single degree programme*, the deadline would be coming up soon. Someone in a hurry? www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications...
Proposed new legal name for the University of Greenwich - Office for Students
We are consulting on a proposed new legal name for the University of Greenwich.
officeforstudents.org.uk
Good afternoon, folks! Feeling in need of an afternoon pick-me-up? Why not get out and post your ballot! Nothing energizes quite like knowing you're contributing to the best chance we have to change HE! Celebrate with your choice of snack afterwards! #WeAreTheUniversity
Sol Gamsu@solgamsu.bsky.social · 9mo agoBought some ice cream from the cornershop & posted my @ucu.org.uk ballot. As my dept rep said this week, pensions took 5 years to win, we've got to be dogged & stubborn even when we're tired. There's no way (higher) education will get better without education workers fighting for it #WeAreTheUni
📣 National Get The Vote Out LIVE! Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪 Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️ Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube #WeAreTheUniversity
Happy Friday folks! Whatever else you're doing this weekend, if there's a ballot paper sitting around in your house, fill it in (voting YES of course) and post it! Take a photo while you do so, and send it to us so others get inspired ✊
The importance of voting YES in the UCU national ballot. 📢some reasons: The pay offer this year is a mere 1.4% but inflation is 3.8% which means our pay’s gone down since the recession of 2007-9 by 20-30% in real terms, depending on whether you use CPI or RPI measures.
More #UCU branches now added to our starter pack 💞 of formal branch/committee presences we've found (no individuals) Please let us know if yours is missing (and sorry about the delay @ucugreenwich.bsky.social @brunelucu.bsky.social @ysjucu.bsky.social @uhiucu.bsky.social @ucuimperial.bsky.social!)
@leedsucu.bsky.social · 2y agoWe made a starter pack! It’s got all the formal branch and commitee presences we could find so far for #UCU - please let us know if your branch / regional committee / other formal elected committee is missing and we’ll do our best to keep it up to date! (No individuals on here) go.bsky.app/H8xiSXj
Don’t just take it from us- Richard Wild, branch co-chair at Greenwich, explains why he’s voting YES to change the future of higher education in the UK. 💌 Why are you voting YES? Let us know in the comments below ⬇️ #WeAreTheUniversity
We know it may feel like you live at work... but you don't! So unless you check your work post daily/can't avoid it, PLEASE don't put your work address as your postal address on MyUCU! If you have, or if you're not sure, change it here: www.ucu.org.uk/myucu .
'My UCU'
Manage and update your personal information with UCU anywhere and any time with 'My UCU'.
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Have you received your ballot paper? Ballot papers in hot pink envelopes (so you can't miss them) are arriving in the homes of members. Your vote gives your union the power to reopen negotiations & fight for you! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1422...
