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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

5 years

Our colleague and comrade @MichaelRosenYes is not well. A stalwart at our teach outs and a giant figure in the movement, everyone here sends him much love, solidarity & strength x

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Look at the numbers for our solidarity rally! This is not a normal strike. @GoldsmithsUoL management has bitten off more than it can chew. We demand #NoJobCuts ! #Goldstrike

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Ever wondered how management sees you? Well, our SMT (which is trying to axe ~80-100 jobs) recently gave a fascinating insight into its thinking. 125 staff told they're at risk of redundancy were directed to an intranet page containing a presentation meant for managers. Oops! 1/4

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5 years

Very interesting development at #Goldsmiths as the Sociology Department has taken the decision to cancel all lectures & therefore seminars. Because it’s a department decision, it means that all ALs within Sociology will get paid #UCUstrike #OneGoldsmiths

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

RESULT for local #Goldstrike ballot @GoldsmithsUoL . On a massive 70.2% turnout, 93.3% vote for action short of strike, 85.8% for strike!! Next stop, branch meeting Monday at 1pm to decide when to strike. For now, well done all on an incredible result.

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

BREAKING: We now know the full picture on redundancies planned by @GoldsmithsUoL - at least 52 jobs. Alongside 32 professional services staff, SMT today served notice they are seeking to cut the equivalent of 20 full time lecturers in English & Creative Writing and History. 1/4

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

🔥EXPLOSIVE thread on #TaxiGate @GoldsmithsUoL : An FOI request has revealed that Goldsmiths warden @FCorner has spent nearly £20k 😲 of College money on taxis since she took up her post in August 2019. 1/14

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

BIG WIN! Short course tutors at @GoldsmithsUoL , who were previously paid only for teaching hours and not for hours spent in course preparation or student support, nor holiday pay, have forced the university to recognise them as workers! @LeighDay_Law

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

"We are now the means by which bankers can extract interest payments from education!" This is a MUST WATCH. @MichaelRosenYes in a powerful critique of the role of @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup at @GoldsmithsUoL . #Goldstrike

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

Please read our motion in response to the de facto suspension of Head and Deputy Head of MCCS Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany for sending an email to students to clarify the impact of our boycott and provide support. Escalations to follow:

MOTION to defend GUCU members Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany - Goldsmiths University and College...

Proposer: Becky Gardiner Seconder: Kirsten Campbell This branch notes: 1. The marking and assessment boycott in response to Tranche 1 of SMT’s Recovery Programme imposing redundancies across...

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

This is superb. Students at @GoldsmithsUoL , organising as @GoldFeesStrike , are withholding over £200,000 in tuition fees in solidarity with #Goldstrike and to demand a fees rebate. Sign up here!

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

"You will set a marker for every other university in the country" @jeremycorbyn at his barnstorming best describing the significance of our three week #Goldstrike ! Inspired by our action for #Nojobcuts at @GoldsmithsUoL ? Contribute to our strike fund

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

We have been informed that @GoldsmithsUoL have decided to move to an extremely punitive “opt-out” system of deducting pay for strike days: from 9 Feb, ALL staff will have to submit a form indicating that they are NOT on strike or face deductions. This is completely unacceptable.

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

The anger of staff and students at @GoldsmithsUoL and other London uni's over @FCorner 's disastrous ideological restructure is palpable. This restructure will wreck Goldsmiths. Save face and stop this NOW or have a ruined institution as your legacy. #GoldStrike

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@GoldsmithsUCU

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📣 Students don’t come to @GoldsmithsUoL to become robots. Nor accountants. Nor management consultants. They come to learn, to think, to fight. Listen to @MichaelRosenYes - he knows the score ⬇️ #NotADoneDeal #SexyAndPoor

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

Thank you, as ever, for your support, @jeremycorbyn ✊❤️

Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn

2 years

Deeply concerned by the summary suspension of @GoldsmithsUCU Professors @lazebnic and Gholam Khiabany. Explaining to students the implications of strike action is unquestionably in their best interests — suspensions in such circumstances are an affront to due process.

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3 years

Banner drop from the @GoldsmithsSU building on the final day of #Goldstrike . It reads "Liberate our education, Solidarity with workers". ❤💙💜

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

⚡️TWITTER STORM⚡️ Mon. 1 August, 12-2pm GMT 4 weeks ago, 2 senior academics and prominent trade unionists @GoldsmithsUoL were suspended for being open and honest with students. Des and Gholam must be reinstated. Details + sample tweets👇

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

📢We got the result (86% for strike, 70% turnout), now we need to raise a strike fund! This is a dispute of national significance: we can't allow banks ( @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup ) to dictate job cuts. Help us take action! Watch > learn > DONATE > share

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

BREAKING following a 28/02 branch meeting, 73% of members voted in favour of further industrial action this term including, EIGHT days of strike action on Wed 16 - Fri 18 March & Mon 21 - 25 Fri March. #GoldStrike 1/6

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Our #Goldstrike begins today. Support by using the hashtag! See you on the picket and at our rally at 12pm. ✊🏼

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

BREAKING! With SMT rejecting all counterproposals set forward for savings by staff and trade unions, we are left with no choice but strike again. In a branch meeting on 19/01 the membership voted for an escalating strike through February 2022 #GoldStrike (1/5)

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@GoldsmithsUCU

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The jobs of those remaining have been hard-won by the sheer resolve of members’ fight. The strength of our action-holding the line with the marking & assessment boycott, showing up for strike action and the looming indefinite strike-brought management to the negotiating table.

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@GoldsmithsUCU

5 years

“We’re here to make things better and to stop things getting worse” @garyyounge back on our picket lines for the 3rd time #UCUstrikesback #UCUstrikes

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

Stop TU victimisation. Sign this letter of support for Gholam and Des @GoldsmithsUoL

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Woah, check out tomorrow's #Goldstrike picket line-up: 😍Owen Jones 😍Apsana Begum MP 😍Michael Rosen 😍Gary Younge You don't want to miss it. TOMORROW (Mon 6th Dec) 8am-1pm, RHB main entrance!

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@GoldsmithsUCU

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The students' speech at today's storming of Senate House. They highlight the human cost of @FCorner 's reckless restructure of @GoldsmithsUoL , the gaslighting behind the "deficit" and how these plans will effectively kill the soul of Goldsmiths. Video 1/3 #StormingOfSH #GoldStrike

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

BREAKING: @GoldsmithsUoL senior management today sent us a formal Section 188 notice stating that it intends to make 32 staff redundant *in professional services alone*. Planned additional cuts to 8 academic departments are yet to be announced . We have a fight on our hands. 1/2

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

On Wednesday 27 July GUCU accepted a deal to bring our current dispute to an end. We pay tribute to the immense courage and support from our students who stood by us throughout this lengthy struggle and staff who participated in actions.

UCU

@ucu

2 years

After inspiring collective action for nearly a year, @GoldsmithsUCU have secured a deal incl: ➡️ No further compulsory redundancies ➡️ Review of fixed-term contract use Our members deserve huge credit for facing down @GoldsmithsUoL senior management 💪

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@GoldsmithsUCU

5 years

An echoey ⁦ @johnmcdonnellMP ⁩ assures the ⁦ @GoldsmithsUoL ⁩ picket line that “we are going to win this dispute” #UCUstrikesback #UCUstrikes

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

📢CONCESSIONS! Thanks to our amazing negotiators, resistance from affected staff + huge strike mandate we have: ❗️DELAYED the @GoldsmithsUoL redundancy process ❗️Members can strike without worrying about individual consultations, getting redundancy notices And... (1/2)

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

4 years

As of the 4th January we are taking industrial action against our employer which is in the form of Action Short of a Strike including an assessment boycott. Please donate to our solidarity fund for our casual members of staff :

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Our decision to invoke the very serious sanction of greylisting comes after months of lengthy discussions in branch meetings. We are dealing with a senior management team who are hellbent on pursuing their ideological restructure and who refuse to work with us. (Thread) 1/5

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We will not accept these job cuts. We will not let them happen. What to do: - Vote YES in the e-ballot for all forms of industrial action (see email) - Attend the branch meeting tomorrow (Wed 29th) at 12.30 - Come to regular action committees to build the fightback. 4/4

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@GoldsmithsUCU

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The last few days have been devastating. We want to extend solidarity to those 62 branch members who have been forced to take @goldsmithsuol meagre redundancy package. Your loss will be felt for a long time & Goldsmiths is poorer without you.

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

SAD NEWS! In order to safeguard the future of @GoldsmithsUoL , we have been forced to issue members of SMT with the following letter notifying them that their roles are at risk. Senior managers who feel anxious at this news are directed to the Wellbeing programme / free yoga.

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

4 years

We are heartbroken to hear of the death of our former colleague and member David Graeber. He was a tremendous activist and thinker and always to be found supporting students in occupations. He made us think of life beyond capitalism.

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

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American-born anthropologist and activist David Graeber — credited with the rallying cry "We are the 99%" — has died. He was 59 years old.

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Notices are served. The Marking and Assessment Boycott begins this time next week - Friday 19 April. Fighting against sacking 35% of staff in 11 affected departments.

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3 years

JUST IN: Biggest GUCU branch meeting in years votes by 191 votes to 1 for a "Failure to Agree", i.e. to ballot for industrial action (in the event management sticks to its planned mass job cuts)! This gives us the strongest hand in negotiations. 1/2

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

@FCorner , @ElisabethLHill and Co. have just lit the match and sent out redundancy notices to colleagues in ECW, History and Professional Services. We will continue fighting the vandals who are wrecking @GoldsmithsUoL . This fight is not over. By a long shot. #GoldStrike

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@GoldsmithsUCU

4 years

Casualised lecturers at Goldsmiths are holding a virtual picket against job cuts today. Tweet your solidarity using the hastag #saveourjobs . More info

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

6 months

We are honoured to have Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah with us. Join us in Reimagining Goldsmiths and ways we can democratise the university. Open to all!

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

STATEMENT TO STUDENTS: 'Goldsmiths UCU Executive sends our gratitude to you for your solidarity and patience during these difficult and uncertain times. We care deeply about students – that’s why we strike.' #Goldstrike Full statement: 1/10

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

The mismanagement of @GoldsmithsUoL under @FCorner has now left the Widening Participation team at the uni with NO Widening Participation support staff whatsoever from the beginning of April 2022. The entire team has taken posts at other uni's in London. 🧵 1/8

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

All out for tomorrow’s epic joint strike action with @unisongold ! SHUT IT DOWN!

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

#UCUStrikes #UCUstrike

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@GoldsmithsUCU

4 years

#SaveGoldsmiths solidarity rally, Fri March 5, 5pm. This dispute is crucial: if @GoldsmithsUoL management can make huge job cuts during a pandemic other institutions are at risk. Join @johnmcdonnellMP , @Gargi_at_home , @zenscara , @MichaelRosenYes @SaraBafo1

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

At our extremely-well attended Emergency Branch Meeting, 92% of members voted NO on the abysmally-worded e-ballot circulated by @ucu yesterday afternoon. We encourage other members to do the same.

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

That's right, we have a special guest joining the Day 15 final #Goldstrike picket - @jeremycorbyn ! He'll speak around 12 but there's lots going on all morning. Be there!'

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@GoldsmithsUCU

5 months

📢STRIKE ALERT: How dare management @GoldsmithsUoL Silence us in-person Mute us online Reduce us to numbers on spreadsheets Insult our intelligence w/ their sham consultations. We are downing tools. We are withdrawing our labour. Support our strike!

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

News just in: The remaining external examiner for the MA in Literary Studies in the Dept of English & Creative Writing has just resigned in solidarity with #BoycottGoldsmiths . The programme is now without any external examiners. @FCorner @GoldsmithsUoL

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@GoldsmithsUCU

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Resistance to "change" (it's actually mass layoffs we resist, not "change" itself) is presented as some kind of individual psychological defect (a "threat response") rather than a collective, principled, political opposition to injustice. 2/4

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📢 Massive thanks to the legendary Professor Paul Gilroy @bungatuffie for his solidarity: "The butchering of @GoldsmithsUoL by inept management and cack-handed consultants provides a dismal example of the deterioration of UK Higher Education." JOIN US AT 3PM DTH GEN ASSEMBLY.📣

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Now Owen Jones takes a stand on the #Goldstrike Day 10 picket to speak up for our fight for #NoJobCuts at @GoldsmithsUoL !

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Beautiful and emotional speech from Black British History student, @paulaakpan . 🧵 Vid 1/2 on how her lecturers ( @seefryar and @hannahelias ) and professional staff ( @NevenkaMartin ) have consistently put students first.

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@GoldsmithsUCU

4 years

Dear Goldsmiths Students, we would like to express our apologies at the lack support you have been given by @GoldsmithsUoL to prepare for the coming academic year. Teaching staff have also been left in the dark about following issues 1/8

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@GoldsmithsUCU

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We're on strike for #NoJobCuts at @GoldsmithsUoL from TOMORROW! We're asking supporters to do THREE things: 1) use #Goldstrike to boost our action, 2) SHARE our strike fund page (and DONATE if you haven't already!): ... (1/2)

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

WOW😮 @GoldsmithsUoL SMT has REFUSED our request for money saved from unpaid wages during strike to go into student hardship fund! SMT said it would instead use the money to reduce the deficit, i.e. essentially pay interest to @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup . (1/2)

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

"This is a fight for a notion of education that isn't rooted in profit, but in expanding our minds and understanding our society." More from Monday's #Goldstrike picket line speeches at @GoldsmithsUoL - @garyyounge on 🔥🔥🔥here! Filmed by @daisyasquith .

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

From Wed 2 March - Fri 4 March, @GoldsmithsUCU will be on strike with @unisongold . Joint local strike action is unprecedented in the history of @GoldsmithsUoL and the history of the sector. It shows that all staff in the college reject the legitimacy of this redundancy process.

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8 months

On Wednesday we received the devastating and unprecedented news of 130 full-time equivalent compulsory redundancies on top of an extensive Voluntary Severance Scheme. GUCU has been preparing: our industrial action ballot opens TODAY. Vote Yes Yes #bintheTP @ucu

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

I think management is talking about us here?🤔Yes, as long as SMT is intent on mass redundancies, we will continue to "actively resist" rather than "change behaviour" 🙄3/4

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@GoldsmithsUCU

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BREAKING: 🔥 Results just in for our local reballot against @FCorner 's disastrous restructure of @GoldsmithsUoL Turnout: 57.3% Vote in favour of strike action: 76.7% ✊💪 #NotOneJob #StopTheRestructure #StopFireAndRehire #GoldStrike

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Today, we rally in support of the 16 staff targeted for redundancy, including our GUCU Co-President, one of our Treasurers and both Reps of the affected departments. This is our message to SMT, that we will continue to stand by our members and fight these callous cuts #NotOneJob

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Another video of the graduation ceremony for @GoldsmithsUoL PhD students and another new Dr. making a stand to protest the unnecessary and ideologically-driven redundancies at Goldsmiths. #GoldStrike This is warden @FCorner 's legacy.

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

A pretty big line up of speakers for the picket line for #Goldstrike Day 6 tomorrow. 😮 UCU General Secretary Jo Grady 😮 Richard Burgon MP 😮 Michael Rosen 😮 Brian Eno Come down, 8am-1pm!

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@GoldsmithsUCU

5 months

📣Good morning: Deptford Town Hall’s Council Chamber is NOW OCCUPIED because SMT refuse to stop the unnecessary cull of jobs as part of a move to destroy the arts and humanities. Listen to this @GoldsmithsUoL student's call for direct action and solidarity! Please share ✊⤵️

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Day 34 of #GoldStrike

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3 years

In high spirits at Deptford Town Hall picket line. #GoldStrike #BoycottGoldsmiths

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Calling all members, students, supporters, London based @ucu activists! Come to our opening #Goldstrike rally next Tuesday (23rd Nov) at 12pm to show the scale of opposition to @GoldsmithsUoL SMT's reckless austerity agenda and "partnership" with @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup ! ✊🏽

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

RESULTS IN Emphatic vote for industrial action in our indicative ballot of our members at @GoldsmithsUoL . Over 500 taking part (much higher than previous indicative votes) - 95% for action short of strike - 91% for assessment boycott - 87% for strike #NoJobCuts #OpenTheBooks 1/2

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Watch our info-video about the redundancies taking place @GoldsmithsUoL and find out how you can help stop them. ‘Get involved, your union needs you. If we’re going to stop these cuts, we’re going to have to act together and act now’ Part 1:

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Please quote tweet us with your message of solidarity during the TwitterStorm this Monday, 7th Feb, 9-10am. #GoldStrike #BoycottGoldsmiths . Tag in @FCorner and @GoldsmithsUoL

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

BREAKING! Following our unprecedented ballot result, a special GUCU branch meeting just voted 150-17 for 3 WEEKS of strike action against management's planned job cuts at @GoldsmithsUoL . Now workers need your DONATIONS to take action! Support the #Goldstrike for #NoJobCuts 👇🏽

Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

📢We got the result (86% for strike, 70% turnout), now we need to raise a strike fund! This is a dispute of national significance: we can't allow banks ( @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup ) to dictate job cuts. Help us take action! Watch > learn > DONATE > share

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@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

Day 1 of 2023 strike and the Richard Hoggart Building picket line is in full swing! ✊

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@GoldsmithsUCU

7 months

❓Question for Goldsmiths management: Will the skills- match questionnaire used to select staff for redundancy allocate any points for being a national treasure❓ #binthetp #saveourjobs #goldstrike

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷

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Exciting times at my university. Apparently I (along with many others) will have to have to prove I am working at the level of my role. Actually, I don't think I can be arsed.

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OMG it's a #Goldstrike strike kitten 😍

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@GoldsmithsUCU

7 months

For @guardian , @zoesqwilliams writes about our connected struggles, about student-staff solidarity, about attacks on the arts and humanities, and about why “The Goldsmiths Crisis” is a crisis for us all - but it’s not a done deal.

The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral

Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the...

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@GoldsmithsUCU

7 months

Stand with us and sign the open letter in Solidarity with Goldsmiths Workers #saveourjobs #binthetp :

Open Letter: In Solidarity with Goldsmiths University

To whom it may concern, Goldsmiths as we know it will cease to exist if we do not protect it. Goldsmiths University’s Senior Management Team intends to carry out another significant restructure to be...

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3 years

A tiny bit of drizzle will not deter us! #Goldstrike for #NoJobCuts at @GoldsmithsUoL

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Students and staff are outside @GoldsmithsUoL to demand that management, @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup #OpenTheBooks so we know how much profit the banks are making from the plans for mass layoffs!

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

MUST WATCH! 'So not Goldsmiths', created by @daisyasquith . @GoldsmithsUoL students explain that they chose the uni because they wanted somewhere critical and distinctive, not somewhere management use tuition fees to pay off @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup . #Goldstrike #NoJobCuts

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3 years

Come rain or shine we're on the #Goldstrike picket calling for #Nojobcuts at @GoldsmithsUoL . This morning Vicky Foxcroft MP joined us to say no to compulsory redundancies.

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Hey @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup , how much profit are you hoping to make from the 52 planned job cuts at @GoldsmithsUoL ? Students and staff are demanding #NoJobCuts ! #goldstrike

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

"Management has got to go!"* More #Goldstrike beauty from Day 2! A joyous yet angry samba march by @GoldsmithsUoL staff and students. *Let's also stop @LloydsBank and @NatWestGroup from profiting from redundancies while we're at it!

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

8 months

A redundancy programme threatening nearly 1/3 of academic jobs at Goldsmiths begins on 18/3/24. This represents a nation wide assault on critical, cultural, and political education. We invite the TU movement, local community, students & staff to unite in defense of HE's future

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

Our stellar #Goldstrike Day 10 speaker line-up of Gary Younge, Apsana Begum MP and GUCU's own Michael Rosen! Such a powerful array of voices against @GoldsmithsUoL management's planned jobs massacre.

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

First Solidarity and Sandwiches gathering of academics, professional services staff, students and supporters! Fridays 12.30 outside front entrance of @GoldsmithsUoL (RHB). The pandemic and being threatened with redundancy can be isolating; let's come together to build power!✊🏽

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

7 months

Read about the scale of the proposed redundancies published by the Guardian: ‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

7 months

➡️ @weizman_eyal writes for @LRB connecting three genocides: Gaza, Namibia and the Holocaust. Weizman's department, Visual Cultures, is one of eleven affected departments under threat of redundancies at Goldsmiths.

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

P.S. Anyone any idea what's going on here?

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

P.P.S. Don't be surprised if our activists get "converted" into enthusiasts for mass layoffs. What are these "special interventions" they have planned?? 😯

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@GoldsmithsUCU

7 months

Results are in and it’s unanimous! 87% vote YES to industrial action 92% vote YES to action short of strike Hot off the press (twice in two days!) #BinTheTP @ucu

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@GoldsmithsUCU

6 months

📢 “I hope Goldsmiths management reconsiders the proposed staff reductions.” Thank you to director and Goldsmiths alum Steve McQueen for showing solidarity on the threatened job cuts which could lead to the sacking of 35% of academic staff across 11 of 18 departments. #binthetp

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

"What's in it for me"? Being made unemployed during a pandemic, via a process that has involved no meaningful consultation with the unions? "Carrot vs stick"... we're seeing an awful lot of stick at the moment. Plenty of carrots for the banks though.. 4/4

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

6 months

🇵🇸Solidarity to Goldsmiths for Palestine occupying the library, demanding accountability from management.🇵🇸 Yesterday, on International Workers’ Day, the student-led group held a powerful rally joined by students, staff and comrades from other UK universities.

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 months

🔥Results are in & we nailed it! Members have voted overwhelmingly in support of further industrial action. Our renewed mandate is testament to the resolve of the branch and the strength of our fight.🔥

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

A message to @GoldsmithsUoL students. Our backs are against the wall, our only option is to strike to save 52 jobs. But we want to get back to teaching, supporting, working with you asap. See this vid from our branch co-secretary & read this message (1/3)

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Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

#GoldStrike Day 2. Lots of energy, camaraderie and bucket-loads of solidarity on the picket line.

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@GoldsmithsUCU

3 years

👀ESSENTIAL VIEWING! Seen some of our #Goldstrike posts recently but not sure what the dispute is all about? Here's a lovely summary video of what's going down in the fight for #NoJobCuts at @GoldsmithsUoL . Produced by @TassiaHackney .

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