What does casualisation feel like? What does 'teaching and research excellence' feel like?

Heartwarming support for our library colleagues and their service through the pandemic and in welcoming so many people to the John Rylands Library over the years. Open letter by UMUCU members has 750 signatures – thank you everyone! Still open to sign docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

📢 This Friday 📢 Rally University Square at 12.30. It's vital we get a big turnout to show our strength in this dispute so get along if you can!

Still time to register for this meeting at 13:00 today – all Umut Sarı members welcome!

Thank you so much to Steffan Blayney & Ben Pope from Manchester Anti-Precarity Network & sheffielducu.bsky.social for coming and talking to our MMU anti-casualisation network on ways to organise and campaign ✊@manmetucu UCU Anti-Casualisation Committee

Breaking ⚡️We're bringing Goldsmiths, University of London to court for its refusal to recognise our workers' rights! Help us win this case & set a precedent by contributing to our fund! 🔥✊ gofund.me/3945a02a Let's stop the uberification of higher education! 🔥

Unis increasingly using short term employment contracts for teaching staff, or even declaring them 'independent contractors'+denying them worker rights. But the recent Uber ruling says this is illegal! Short course tutors at Goldmsiths are fighting back. sctutors-case.uk

The Researcher Development Concordat could and must be much stronger on employment security. Our employer is holding a consultation meeting on local implementation of the Concordat tomorrow 10am – I'm sure they want to hear the views of precarious staff! eventbrite.co.uk/e/researcher-d…

During my PhD, at an expensive conference dinner, a senior academic declared just how fortunate she thought doctoral students were for having the time & space to think. One such student had already stopped attending reading groups because she could no longer afford the bus fare.

“It feels like management is pitting the public access and engagement against research, as if the two can’t now work in tandem... Now one has to come at the expense of the other.” Nick and The Meteor 🍉 on the UoM library restructuring: themeteor.org/2021/06/26/doz…

Please say hi to our casualised comrades and neighbours MMU Anti-Casualisation Network and give them a follow! 👋

Postgraduate researchers do a huge amount to keep the higher education system running - but they are exploited, underappreciated and denied the same benefits as staff That's why today we are proud to launch our new #PGRsAsStaff manifesto Check it out 👇 ucu.org.uk/article/11648/…

We’re now in the longest dispute on Merseyside since the dockers took action in the 90s. Testament to the enormous combined effort of each and every participating worker! 😀

🚨GTAs: Know Your Rights!🚨 TAing this semester at UoM? Our Anti-Casualisation Officers are hosting a discussion on your rights at work. All welcome. Come along to raise any concerns you currently have and start organising for change. Sign up here: bit.ly/UM-GTA

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GTAs, see you later today! This meeting is open to all GTAs, not just members of UCU. DM us if you need the zoom link 📨

If you're employed on a fixed-term contract at the University of Manchester, it's governed by the Contracts of Employment Policy UMUCU are meeting to discuss the policy – please join us if you can 📅Tuesday 2 November 12:30–1:30pm Registration: zoom.us/meeting/regist…