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14 Apr, 4 tweets, 4 min read
Results of our ballot for industrial action to defend #LivesAndLivelihoods @uniofleicester - to defend the University itself!
We passed the legal threshold with turnout of 56.3%. Of those voting, 69.7% voted for strike action; 84.1% voted for action short of a strike Image
This is a remarkable success given the challenges of holding a ballot open for less than a fortnight that included a 4-day bank holiday wkend, in the middle of a pandemic. Thanks to @leicesterucu members for this incredible effort!
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The message to @uniofleicester executive board is clear: @NCanagarajah your "shaping for excellence" redundancy plans must stop. You've ignored a tsunami of dissent & tried to intimidate staff into submission. None of this is normal!
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@leicesterucu will provide further guidance to members about strike activities/timings in the coming days. @NCanagarajah you can avoid strike action by withdrawing all threats of compulsory redundancy
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16 Apr
1. This makes for chilling, albeit grimly humorous, reading. We would urge our followers to read it as it gives a real sense of the total disrespect shown to colleagues but also the thousands of academic and other allies who wrote to express their concern: uculeicester.org.uk/ulsb16/prof-bu…
2. Prof Burrell's statement that staff 'threatened with redundancy are now becoming used to seeing the tremendous strain that senior management exert in the selectivity of what single words we have used throughout our academic lives. Context stands for nothing' is noteworthy.
3. As if the stress and anxiety of wholly unjustified compulsory redundancy, on shadowy, shifting criteria, wasn't enough, some of staff have been/will be subject to show trials under the university's Dignity and Respect policy, weaponized in the most cynical manner possible.
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16 Apr
Our comms officer & at-risk colleague @DavidHarvieUCU on Radio Leicester this morning: highlighting @uniofleicester's pretence that redundancy plans are about 'excellence'; the impact redundancies will have on students 1/
uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-ucu-…
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Targeted for redundancies include:
Library staff who help students access the resources they need to learn
Leicester Learning Institute experts who made online learning possible
Teachers, supervisors, personal tutors who've moved hell & high water to support students 2/
Radio Leicester said @NCanagarajah wasn't available, but a spokesperson wants "efforts to ensure continued dialogue" with @leicesterucu. We don't think there's been much dialogue thus far, since most of what we've said has been ignored 3/
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14 Apr
Our ballot for industrial action to defend jobs and livelihoods at the University of Leicester – to defend the University of Leicester – closed earlier today. We are pleased to announce that we exceed the legal minimum threshold, achieving a turnout of 56%.
This is a remarkable success given the challenges of holding a ballot over a period of less than a fortnight, which included a 4-day bank holiday weekend, in the middle of a global pandemic. 70% of those voting, voted for strike action; 84% voted for action short of a strike.
The message to University of Leicester's leaders and to everyone who makes the University – staff, students and other stakeholders – is clear. What Gary Dixon, Chair of Council, Nishan Canagarajah, Edmund Burke and other members of Executive Board are trying to do is not OK.
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14 Apr
We're stunned to report @uniofleicester exec board have actually told us the truth about something! Namely that the 'high-level vision' of @NCanagarajah's Strategic Plan👇 would contribute nothing of substance to his ongoing Excellent Redundancy Shapes uniofleicester.sharepoint.com/sites/staff/st…
It doesn't. Nor was it worth the 12-month wait. A whopping 912 words of generic Buzzword University Leadership Lingo Selling Hubris Insipid Twaddle. Did the Strategic Diagram (their capitalisation!) have to be manually assembled from 100,000 tiny jigsaw pieces? Image
We like this puzzle better: jolly, cute animals, nice and easy to complete as well Image
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14 Feb
It would be hard to beat the brazen effrontery of Portsmouth's spinmeisters. However, this extract from the VC's response to @JudithJesch and all our medievalist colleagues at Nottingham, protesting the axing of 1000+ years of English language and literature, wins hands down ...
Regarding a point Prof. Jesch made about the Midlands Viking Symposium (but ignoring other aspects of collaboration with Leicester mentioned in the letter), the VC (apparently) performs yet more casuistical gymnastics claiming that Leicester is committed to medieval scholarship
... except not in English (apparently):

In regard to the Midlands Viking Symposium, I have been informed of its work by your colleague Dr Christina Lee. Please be assured that our University remains committed to medieval scholarship ...
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27 Jan
Some financial background to the crisis besetting our university. Formerly one of the UK’s leading pre-1992 universities, the University of Leicester made significant investments in expansion and update of its facilities pre-Covid, and was in a great deal of trouble even then.
The university, in common with many others in the UK, has been hit by a perfect storm of Brexit and Coronavirus, but this ship was already heading full steam down iceberg alley. Brexit has cut Leicester off from its main source of soft finance, the European Investment Bank.
It has been forced to resort to private placements with harder US insurance companies, who probably thought they were getting a good, safe deal for their pensioners and life policyholders: turns out, not so much.
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