We listened and the voice from our members is loud and clear for
#NoCapitulation
The branch committee
@UCU_Ulster
therefore recommends rejection of the proposal. Join us on the picket lines again tomorrow to show our negotiators that we will stay strong in defence of our pensions
🔒🔒🔒LOCKOUT🔒🔒🔒:
@UlsterUni
management have just confirmed that they will deduct 100% of salary for ASOS industrial action in the form of a Marking & Assessment Boycott
Sending our full solidarity to
@cjhumanrights
. No colleague should be threatened or intimidated for their work and their right to undertake free and legitimate scholarship
Jeez. Now we have the Education Secretary suggesting striking nurses will fuel inflation & cause NHS backlogs
Let’s put this boll**** straight once & for all
Offered a resilience seminar by
@UlsterUni
.....
Staff don't need to be more resilient.... they need decent pay, fair & safe workloads, security in retirement, equal pay across the university and secure contracts
#oneofusallofus
At what point do vice chancellors realise that
@universitiesuk
&
@UCEA1
no longer represent the best interests of UKHE's global reputation, and disband these organisations?
Our wonderful students out in force today in the cold and wet. They know that our working conditions are their learning conditions. Thank you for your solidarity ✊❤️
Very pleased to confirm that @ a quorate branch meeting our members have pledged £5K to the
@ucuatqub
fighting fund
We won’t let our comrades be bullied
@QUBelfast
@QUBVChancellor
We’ve got their backs; it’s time you had theirs too - redact the deductions &
#settlethedispute
Yes
@ucu_ulster
is not facing the same punitive deductions (and hence Industrial Relations catastrophe) as other universities.
We will however not leave our comrades behind.
We also encourage our members to donate to the
@ucu
fighting fund:
Well done to
@UlsterUni
for showing leadership amidst the bin fire that is Higher Education.
They are not imposing deductions on staff taking part in MAB.
Hope their UCEA colleagues take heed.
#ucuRISING
@uniofwarwick
@WarwickHistory
@wmgwarwick
Let’s be honest
@uniofwarwick
this isn’t about wellbeing at all, it’s a nice photo op for your social media. It’s performative.
While your staff stood on picketlines to fight against workloads that are making them sick your managers are literally laughing at the situation.😣
Please that
@UlsterUni
has made the choice not to bully / starve it’s staff taking industrial action to improve the university sector
It’s a pity that other universities are choosing an extreme anti-staff approach
#ucuRising
We're pleased to tell you that our wonderful
@UCU_Ulster
activist
@gorettihorgan
has been elected as academic staff rep on Council
@UlsterUni
Thanks to everyone who signed the petition of protest when the university tried to bar Goretti from standing because of her UCU activities
So good to see
@UlsterUni
VC Professor Paul Bartholomew engaging with our picketers this morning on the issues of why we are on strike.
We call on all VCs to talk to their colleagues on why they are taking action
#ucuRISING
Thanks again to
@UlsterUni
VC Professor Paul Bartholomew for his visit to our picket this morning.
All VCs should follow Paul’s example and engage and listen to their colleagues on the picket line
Our participation in the marking and assessment boycott remains ON, but
@UlsterUni
management have offered to engage in further negotiations
Many thanks to all our sister branches, members, followers and supporters for all the solidarity shown this few days.
Remember that we are beginning ASOS today.
Your inbox might be full:
-don't apologise in replies for being on strike
-you don't need to catch up with everything today
-your manager should acknowledge that any work rearranged will need to be done at the cost of something else
Nothing to celebrate about the current state of industrial relations in N. Ireland's universities.
VCs and Deans who try to celebrate how
#REF2021
are so out of touch with the staff who have conducted research.
Solidarity ✊️❤️
Speaking Truth to Power: as QUB's VC leads the 'celebration' of the university's REF results, one of the university's workers challenges him on 35% pension cuts, 15 years of real pay cuts and crippling workloads. In reality, it is not a time for celebration!
It’s worth pointing out that all workers across all sectors taking action today are defending & improving the working conditions of tomorrow for students.
It’s therefore great to see students stand with (not only)
@ucu
but
@CWU
,
@RMTunion
RCN & others ✊❤️
‼️‼️‼️Attention Students ‼️‼️‼️- your lecturers & academic support staff will soon be going on strike.
Here’s why + what you can do to help improve your learning conditions - a threat…..1/17
@wawisloyola
Poor attendance is common across the sector - a multitude of reasons, but all consequences of marketisation.
HE is broken and is failing students and staff
The chair of
@UCEA1
👇who believes workers should “feel pain” of disproportionate deductions in the midst of the worst cost of living crisis in decades
-is he a fit & proper person to lead a university?
-is he a fit & proper person to lead the national bargaining for employers?
Just look at those massive Magee grins 😁😁😁 Our Derry colleagues haven't looked this happy in months. Let's stand strong and change our sector so they can look this happy going to work every day ✊✊✊
#UCUstrike
#frozenbutsolid
#UCUStrikesBack
Yesterday Strathclyde students disrupted a speech at
#ScotLifeSci22
in solidarity with our striking staff. Delegates paid hundreds to attend, crossing the picket line.
🚨 Attend Student Parliament 29th 5PM @ Mandela, vote to support strike
🚨 ALL OUT 30th
#ucuRISING
#StrathLife
Students arriving for their first day of a new academic year - classes cancelled
A day of shame for UKHE
@UCEA1
are doing irreparable damage to this sector
Don’t pull the ladder up from those who are at the start of their careers, on a temporary casual contract or who are from one of the groups who are unequally paid in our sector
Professors and senior lecturers - don’t mark the work of someone who is boycotting marking
Reminder:
Don’t break the digital picket
Don’t volunteer to do the marking for a
@ucu
member
Don’t pull up the ladder on those in a less privileged position as you &/ or on those who are fighting for better working conditions ON YOUR BEHALF
One set of staff's unsustainable workloads making another set of staff's workloads unsustainable. Management fail to see the irony, so it'll remain one of our
#fourfights
til they do.
#UCUstrikesback
#UCUstrikes
#UCU
The
@UCEA1
pay uplift is on average around £40 per month
Here’s some other uplifts:
- +£285 average annual mortgage increase
- +£380 average annual food bill increase
- +£1000 average annual home energy bill increase
Cheers
@UlsterUni
🤨
Michael, a second-year Interactive Media student, interviewed picketers at Coleraine this morning.
He's doing a documentary about the strike for his coursework! ✊
Massive thanks to our comrades at
@NIPSA
for their solidarity. At their General Council they agreed the following: initial donation of £3000 to strike fund, use of NIPSA buildings, mobilising public support. This is a fight for all of us.
#ucu
#strikeforUSS
#ucustrikes
Expressing our solidarity with
@jeremycorbyn
who is facing continued media attacks in addition to attacks from within
@UKLabour
We won’t forget the letter Jeremy sent our branch in 2022 expressing his own solidarity to our branch’s struggle across the
@UCU
“four fights”
BBC coverage of our agreement with management.
Time for other unis to get back to talks with their campus unions and begin the long journey to addressing some of the workforce issues in UKHE
Here's looking at you
@Queens_Belfast
@QUBVChancellor
👀👀👀
Just look at founding member of
@Solidarity_SSIA
and UCU student activist
@amz_wot
's graduation outfit 😍🤩
"solidarity with
@ucu
" & "up the workers"
Congratulations Amy and thanks again for your amazing support ✊️❤️
Thanks to everyone for coming down this week. Seeing and talking to other colleagues and fellow comrades is what keeps us going.
Being on the picketline gives us the opportunity to have the discussions we are supposed to have in work but don’t get the time to have 🤨🙄
Our
@AislingBeirn
@ the QUB Rally
Aisling emphasised that we must as a society invest in the future - unis are not doing this by: piling students numbers high, increasing workloads, seeing students as £s & €s, casualising the workforce & constantly attacking Ts & Cs of HE staff
So Happy New Year from
@UlsterUni
management, who expect staff to....
-mark mountains of assignments / exams
-prep contingency plans
-prep for f2f & online delivery simultaneously
-cover for colleagues who are sick (& hence cross the ASOS picket-line)
All before 24th Jan...
Confirmed:
@UCU_Ulster
will join other unions on 1st Feb on strike ✊
Unions tried to seriously negotiate a settlement with
@UCEA1
on 16th January but UCEA negotiators chose to jest instead 🤡….. this shows how much
@UlsterUni
’s reps really care about the “student experience”
We've withdrawn our labour from our institutions, but we're still doing what we do best during the strike, on our terms. Check out the Alternative University in Derry run by our Magee campus members.
@ucu
#frozenbutsolid2
#UCUStrikesBack
😆 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why don't you ask the 100s of staff standing on picket lines this week?
Clue: the answer is not:
-cutting staff pay,
-excessive workloads,
-insecure precarious employment contracts or
-unequal pay based on racial identity, gender identity & disability
How do universities make sure teaching is excellent? 🏆
This week, the Office for Students (OfS) will publish the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) awards. Policy Manager
@CSnelling_UK
reflects on how universities take part in the TEF.
Find out more 👇
Comrades from Derry Trades Council,
@pb4p
and
@UNISONNI
joined us this morning at a UU open day to protest against
@UlsterUni
decison to instigate a lockout of staff from Monday
The outrage towards UU management's 1913 anti-union tactics is palpable...
🌞☀️ Morning everyone 🌞 ☀️
We’re back out on the pickets on the Cromore Road Coleraine, Rock Road Derry and York Street Belfast
Students are very welcome today to chat to members about how the issues we are on strike over are impacting their student experience