Good morning! This is the week to get to the postbox with your ballot if you have not already done so - and then let us know that you have! The last really safe day to post is Wednesday, so let's get as many ballots off as we can! #OneOfUsAllOfUs #USSMess #FourFights

TODAY is the last day to post your ballot papers! Get to the postbox!!!! 📨📯🏤✊✊

Postgraduate researchers do the same work as university staff, but without the same employment rights, protections, or pay – exploitation that keeps academia closed to anyone but the wealthy few. tribunemag.co.uk/2022/04/univer…

We have long been raising concerns about a no. of issues concerning perceived conflicts of interest which directly affect the governance of Goldsmiths, University of London. We have been consistently stonewalled so have escalated our concerns now to the Privy Council. 🧵1/3 we-are.gold/2022/04/03/let…

Whilst vice chancellors are busy celebrating today's #REF2021 results. This is the situation on the ground for the university staff whose work they've hijacked...🧵

Our branch AGM is on Wednesday 25th May next week - papers and the Zoom link will be e-mailed out shortly. Come along and find out what's been going on locally and nationally with our union work. royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2022/05/17/rhu…

BREAKING: We have learned that Queen Mary University of London management is considering using external staff from Curio, an Australian Higher Education consultancy Curio Group, to try to break our marking boycott and grade student essays. A 🧵 on #TheCuriosCase: 1/13

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Given how many people in the HE sector are likely to be facing discussions about their future very shortly, we thought we'd re-share our 2021 survival guide for meetings with senior management in case it's helpful: royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2021/07/08/the… #OneOfUsAllOfUs

21 days deducted pay in July for those on marking boycott. 21 days deducted pay in August for those that continue to boycott marking. Absolutely appalling Queen Mary University of London would makes such deductions, particularly during the worst living crisis since the 1940s. Pariah University

The Tories are determined to hollow out higher education and shrink the horizons of working class students We want bread 𝙖𝙣𝙙 roses too, and our union is going to fight this reductive agenda with everything we've got

Sheffield Hallam recently announced that it was increasing its financial support to its funded PhD researchers. Why isn't every university doing this? How can you put pressure on your university to do the same (or better!)? #PGRPayRise

Employers have been notified. Vote YES to take back what's ours. #ucuRISING

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Vote YES from 7 September for proper job security. #ucuRISING

Vote YES from 7 September to end casualisation #ucuRISING

On Friday 25th, RHUL Casuals are running a special anti-casualisation-themed picket line! We'd invite our casualised members to sign up to join the picket: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

RHUL Casuals We also invite our casualised members to check out our strike pay guidance for these three days of strike action - we want to make sure it's affordable for all our members to withdraw their labour and make an impact. #UCURising x.com/RH_UCU/status/…

Unite members in Royal Holloway join 70,000 university staff across the country taking strike action for a fair pay. With RPI at 14.2%, current offer of just 3% is a significant real terms pay cut.