University of Manchester staff in solidarity with Palestine:

Statement in support of UoM's student encampment.

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Full solidarity from our branch UCU St Andrews Whatever the sector, bosses are bosses and workers are workers, and we are always on the side of the workers.

Full solidarity from this branch for these workers. UCU St Andrews fully supports Unite's demands for an anti-racist workplace and calls on UCU HQ to honour the collective agreements for an independent investigation.

nearly 1000 people at St Andrews demanding divestment now! please keep signing and sharing if you haven’t already!

St Andrews faculty and students: please consider signing this letter calling for divestment👇

St Andrews staff and students, please consider signing this letter: the time to divest in companies complicit in the occupation and genocide in Palestine was long ago, but we can't wait any longer!

The UCU Edinburgh just sent a letter to the University of Edinburgh Principal, supporting the Edinburgh Justice for Palestine encampment and its demands for divestment, urging our university to disclose, divest, and create a special fund for the support of academics and students from Gaza

I'd encourage colleagues and students at St Andrews to read and sign this letter calling for the University to divest from companies implicit in the genocide and occupation in Palestine

If you are affiliated with the University of St Andrews, please sign. Membership in UCU St Andrews not required.

I strongly encourage my colleagues as well as St Andrews students to sign this important letter.

The encampment also have a petition, here: change.org/p/uoa-encampme…

The University must divest from companies that are profiting from or supporting the ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine.

Students and Staff and invited to sign this letter calling for divestment - ucustandrews.org/divestmentlett…

UCU delegate Tom Jones from UCU St Andrews supporting composite I on Housing at #STUC24 calling for an interim rent cap to protect renters from rent increases, and supporting the work of Living Rent

The List keeps growing, but so does the resolve of many in Higher Education that this sector deserves defending.

A short 🧵 of 5 first steps for anyone new to union organising and/or overwhelmed and unsure where to start.
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Just 8 days left to get the last 18,796 signatures from UK residents. Sign and circulate outside of Twitter

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Speak out about Israel’s execution of journalist Mohammad Abu Sukheil. An execution carried out in a hospital. Never normalise Israel’s horrific acts.

Solidarity with our NUJ Scotland STV News comrades. Hardworking journalists deserve a decent pay rise #NUJSTVStrike ✊

The fab team at Queen Mary UCU have gathered this frankly shocking list of universities running redundancy programs in various forms - it makes grim reading for the health of the sector: qmucu.org/qmul-transform…