Standing room only this evening - full
solidarity with @uniteucu ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏼❤️‍🩹

I'm sharing some points from our report on Uni of Sheffield's complicity with weapons companies. As all eyes are on Rafah, we cannot ignore that bombs, drones & jets being used there may have been developed here such as the F-35 used by the Israeli state. Thread (1/n)

For personal reasons, I am not standing again as a negotiator this year for the JNC to continue USS pension work, though have thrown my name in the hat to be on the advisory committee. Delegates to congress this week: I recommend primary votes for Jackie Grant and Josstification 🧶🍉

Read more about @SheffieldUni's attempt to control which journalists could and couldn't cover the new report in our full story by Sam Gregory 👇

We also explain why @SheffieldUCU think the move contradicts UoS's own Freedom of Speech Policy

Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/unive…

Members of @SheffieldUCU had hoped to launch a report into @SheffieldUni's ties to arms manufacturers with an event on campus.

But they were blocked by uni management, who imposed a series of 'invasive restrictions' that have alarmed both staff and students...

A short thread 🧵

University of Aberdeen senior management are speaking with student and staff protestors on Elphinstone Lawn.

Not normal at all.

#AccidentalPartridge

The cost of living crisis is not over.

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily?

Join a union.

They’ve stoked a culture war in our Universities.

They’ve stood by as College lecturers earn £9k less than teachers.

They’ve decimated continuing education.

They’ve voted for anti-union laws that have denied trade unionists the right to strike.

July 4th. Get the Tories out.

Absolutely ridiculous. Over the last three years, just 2 out of 1064 FOIs were deemed vexatious by University of Aberdeen ... both were submitted by me.

Thanks Bruce E. Baker for digging this up.

9/9 “The stakes are really high for international students,” said Dr Lucy Mayblin of Migration Research. Students are getting trapped in the system which is oriented to deporting them.”

What’s the worst that could happen? More, exclusively at Now Then Magazine

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/a-con…

2/9 @Sheffielduni’s new iSheffield attendance check-in app, licensed from Jerusalem-based company @Exlibrisgroup, is designed to track student locations in order to report international student attendance to the Home Office. What could possibly go wrong?

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/a-con…

1/9 Could The University of Sheffield use an “Orwellian” attendance app to spy on, or even wrongfully deport, #Sheffield students?

For Now Then Magazine I investigate the fine-print behind the Israeli-owned app, used by at least 11 unis. What I found = alarming.

A 🧵👇

Migration Research @SheffieldUCU

NEXT WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY, 17:30-20:00

Nick Maynard and Arif Khwaja will speak on the Destruction of Healthcare in Gaza

Co-hosted by ourselves and Sheffield UCU, endorsed by Sheffield MedSoc, Sheffield BAME Medics society, Sheffield Surgical Society, Medact

Register here for the talk on the Destruction of Healthcare in Gaza: forms.gle/YsoCxJqYRDAo7X… !

Just a reminder that USS is still very much a live issue for UCU members.
HE sector conference delegates should read Mike's blog as should all members so they can influence their branch voting. Stopping discussions on CI is a mistake.
Sheffield UCU

Happening today lovely folks! Join us in the evening at Broomhill centre.
#armsoffcampus