After 100+ redundancies in 2023, the VC University of Brighton used her first email of 2024 to announce:

👋Voluntary severance scheme

💀Plan to remove all entitlement to research time from academics

🛑Plan to remove the weekly cap on teaching hours

Haven't they caused enough damage?!

I mean - yeah the anti-union laws do pose significant barriers, but we’ve also not met the threshold cause the leadership of this union is just utter shite.

Gaza is under intense bombing.

Telecommunications have been cut.

We can't get through to our family who have been trapped in this war zone for almost 3 weeks.

We can only pray they survive the night.

How many more children have to die before the world says enough?

Silence is complicity.

As is typical at University of Brighton the tyrants led by the absolutely shambolic VC are robbing me 100% of my wages and driving us into poverty. Sussex Uni have rescinded pay deductions. UoB are doing this JUST to be callous. Do not work here academic colleagues UCU Brighton UCU

Great turn out on our picket today! Thanks Sian Berry for visiting & supporting our #BrightonUniStrike ! We won't return to work until every compulsory redundancy is rescinded. University of Brighton made its needless savings through VR & resignations. There is no excuse! Stop the cuts!

Genius

Tories SMASHED in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections.

(And I feel fine)

We should all go full Dawn Butler MP✊🏾💙: This man is a LIAR

Lobbying University of Brighton academic board today, to settle with Brighton UCU and to stop the union busting & intimidation of staff. Great turnout from students & staff, because together, we will win.

Protest in Tel Aviv calls for Prime Minister Netanyahu to resign.

Local media reported the protest was started by a family member of a hostage but soon grew to dozens of people.

Read more: trib.al/nNIwAk7

Up to now I’ve been open minded, and willing to make a strategic choice about who I voted for next election - but there is no way I can vote for a Labour leader who endorses war crimes.

I await my letter of expulsion…

By refusing to fund interpreters for this deaf student, University of Brighton are effectively forcing this student out of education and potentially the country. This is a scandal - they do not care about staff or students & are dangerous Brighton UCU NUS UK UCU

disabilitynewsservice.com/deaf-student-c…

100 days on the picket line for Brighton UCU as they fight against vicious and unnecessary redundancies

They’ll be there for another 100 days if that’s what it takes.

And I’ll be back on the picket line with you in the next few weeks. Solidarity

I think we can safely dispel the notion that our uni management care about students. Walling, fencing, and guarding occupying students with security shot through the myth of ‘we care’