UK UNIVERSITIES: UPHOLD THE RIGHT TO PROTEST Last month, new guidance from the Office for Students (OfS) set out how universities should meet their duties to protect freedom of speech on campus This includes upholding the right to protest. (1/7)

An industrial strike ballot is coming. Why? It’s about pay; it’s about protecting our national academic agreements; and it’s about stopping the slashing of courses of which 4,000 have gone as have their staff!!!!!

What will it be like to work or study at Lancaster University, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? What about the impact on communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable? Sign our petition to stop this nonsense! chng.it/xJpLzrsVvs

🥁📢LIVE THIS THURSDAY AT 7PM: EXPOSING VICE CHANCELLOR HYPOCRISY Vice chancellors take record pay while staff face cuts, redundancies and impossible workloads. Join us as we expose the hypocrisy at the top of UK universities. youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJ… #WeAreTheUniversity

Multiple Vice Chancellors on the plane to India with Keir Starmer selling the appeal of UK Universities. The same Universities where they are trying to make thousands of staff redundancies, insecure employment is rife and they have offered UCU members a 1.4% pay deal.

Struggling on 1.4 per cent? We know many members are! Always look at your University financial reports! What’s your VC taking home? UCU UCU London Regional Office if we are in it together then VCs should be taking home no more than us!

‼️NEW: Universities have tried to axe over 15,000 staff this year. Yet the vice-chancellors responsible are paying themselves more than ever before. We’re balloting to save higher education. Our GS Jo Grady broke the story on BBC Radio 4 this morning👇

BBC Breakfast news covered our analysis of the shocking cuts at universities across the UK It’s time to stand up and fight for our sector ✊ Vote YES in the ballot #WeAreTheUniversity

🚨Join us on Tues 14 Oct at 7pm for our Solidarity Live We'll be joined by RMT GS Eddie Dempsey, Equity GS Paul W Fleming & Fire Brigades Union GS Steve Wright ✊ #WeAreTheUniversity youtube.com/live/z2lsXOybj…

Messages for UCU members on the need to vote YES in the HE ballot 📢 ❎Its now or never ❎We’ve passed the point of crisis ❎The only way to change it, is to be part of the change ❎If you want your voice to count, you have to shout #WeAreTheUniversity

Why are we balloting? Because enough is enough Vote YES in HE ballot #WeAreTheUniversity

We want to know about your experience of using the Access to Work scheme. If you have had help in the last 2 years, we want to hear from you. We want to see if the scheme works! DPCG have now created a BSL version of their current survey, available here: surveymonkey.com/r/LPKT8PH

Committees and IT departments have captured the university | Times Higher Education (THE) - I am sure this resonates with a lot of us! timeshighereducation.com/opinion/commit…

Why does Nigel Farage want us to be like Argentina?

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#uwl members you will now be receiving your ballot for industrial action. It is simple! Are you being given a fair wage for the work you do? Has your workload increased are you working conditions being eroded? How about vce walk 1.4% in our shoes! UCU UCU London Regional Office

The government’s post-16 white paper is a massive missed opportunity. Instead of fixing a broken funding model, ministers are doubling down on tuition fees and attacking international students. We’re balloting because staff and students deserve better fair pay, secure jobs, and

“Job security has been chipped away for years. We’re losing the best and the brightest from our universities.” Dyfrig Jones sounded the alarm on Times Radio yesterday - “it’s an emergency”. 🚨 #UCU #VoteYES #WeAreTheUniversity

UCU - Post-16 white paper poor substitute for proper public funding ucu.org.uk/article/14232/…

Ballot papers are dropping through your letterboxes this week. You know it’s simple! If you stand still and alone you continue to be the unheard, overworked and underpaid. Use your vote to say 1.4 per cent disrespects us and our profession and we deserve to be valued UCU #uwl