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20 Oct

🚨BREAKING: UCEA, the group representing uni bosses, has confirmed it is doubling down on real-terms pay cuts, refusing to even acknowledge casualisation & offering vague gestures on inequality & workload.

They are refusing to seriously negotiate.

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#OneOfUsAllOfUs

@DrJoGrady

UCEA's chief exec has written to our general secretary @DrJoGrady. In it, he lays out the employers' 'offer'

📉 Yet another real-terms pay cut, insultingly packaged as a "pay uplift"

❌Lip-service to pay gaps and spiralling workload

❗️Not a single mention of casualisation

Not only are employers refusing to budge from this insulting 'offer' of cuts & tinkering, it's all they are willing to talk about.

We cannot negotiate with preconditions set by employers.

They need to get round the table, drop their insults, & start treating staff with respect.

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@ucu

31 Aug

@UniversitiesUK

URGENT USS PENSIONS NEWS:

Today @UniversitiesUK voted to push ahead with its plans to cut thousands of pounds from the retirement benefits of university staff in the USS pension scheme

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The employer body voted for their package of cuts ahead of agreeing to fully consider UCU's alternative proposals and calls for a month's extension so that staff and universities could be properly consulted

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@UniversitiesUK

UCU's proposals would have delivered higher benefits in return for lower contributions than the proposals from @UniversitiesUK and for the first time would have would have provided a secure pension for staff on low pay and insecure contracts

3/

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@ucu

20 Jul

@officestudents

🧵Today, government cuts to arts and humanities courses were confirmed by @officestudents

These courses face a 50% cut to their subsidies, which will make many unviable, forcing them to close

Here are the courses that are effected:

Performing arts
Music
Drama
Dance
Art

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Design studies
Cinematics and photography
Information services
Publishing
Journalism
Media studies
Clothing production
Footwear production

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The cuts aren't restricted to traditional university degrees either, and also target learndirect courses, which are aimed at upskilling adults in employment

Those courses are:

Arts and crafts
Gardening and floristry
Industrial design
Product design
Industrial model making

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@ucu

20 Jul

@unitetheunion

UPDATE ON HE PAY NEGOTIATIONS: 🧵

Higher Education negotiators from UCU,
@unitetheunion, and @unisontheunion met @UCEA1 in the first of two dispute resolution meetings over the current pay bargaining round.

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@UCEA1

We were disappointed that @UCEA1 did not bring an improved offer, despite our consistent communications on areas which are lacking.

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@UCEA1

.@UCEA1 did not demonstrate willingness to improve their previous pay offer, despite the rise in inflation that means 1.5% would now constitute a real terms pay cut, under both RPI and CPIH.

3/

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@ucu

13 May

@uniofleicester

Whilst the government pretends to care about views being supressed on campus, @uniofleicester is trying to sack staff whose research threatens management

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@ronald_hartz

.@ronald_hartz is at risk because his research "displays profound questioning" of "mainstream management thinking".

#BoycottLeicester

Dr Valerie Fournier is at risk because her critical management research is not aligned with the university's strategic priorities.

#BoycottLeicester

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@ucu

28 Sep 20

UCU has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson* to urge him to make online learning universities' default position, protect students' education and stop any further damage to community health. ucu.org.uk/article/11029/… 1/

@DrJoGrady

UCU general secretary @DrJoGrady: ‘Given the rapidly changing situation & increasing outbreaks, it is time for swift action and to move the majority of universities’ work online. We are not prepared to take chances with health & safety of students, staff or local communities 2/

@manmetucu

‘The example of Manchester Metropolitan University @manmetucu shifting teaching online only for foundation and first year students exposes the absurdity of trying to continue with blended learning. 3/

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