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Goldsmiths UCU
@GoldsmithsUCU
Trade union for academic & academic-related staff @ Goldsmiths
Apr 15 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
🌪️Pushback against redundancies and cuts at Goldsmiths, and across the sector, has been palpable in the press. 🌪️Here’s some of the recent media coverage collated: ‘Goldsmiths and SOAS latest to face strikes over job cuts’, Times Higher Education @timeshighered Fri Feb 29 2024 timeshighereducation.com/news/goldsmith…
Jun 14, 2022 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
🔥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 Image 2/ The reply to the FOI request begins by ‘apologis[ing] for the delay in responding’. The scandalous content of what is revealed probably explains why there was so much dithering. #CornersCabs
Apr 30, 2022 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
STATEMENT ON REDUNDANCIES 🔥
Revealed: the true brutality of @FCorner's Tory-inspired wrecking ball and how we are fighting back to defend the integrity of @GoldsmithsUoL. Link to our full statement (some highlights below). goldsmithsucu.org/2022/04/29/guc… 🧵1/20 2/The way that stage 3 of the redundancy process has been carried out is in violation of the College’s own policy on managing organisational change.
Oct 19, 2021 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
@GoldsmithsUoL Warden @FCorner today wrote to all staff to ask them to vote against industrial action. The email contained many misleading statements, which we address here. Tl;dr: SMT is set on its plan of unnecessary and damaging mass job cuts. Vote YES to stop them. 1/8 Management’s plan is for up to 52 staff to be issued redundancy letters before the end of the year, yet here the Warden admits the most recent accounts will not be published until *after* some staff are dismissed. Are these cuts really required due to College finances, or... 2/8
Sep 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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 There will likely be more job cuts to follow. We learned in yesterday's redundancy "consultation launch" (from which some of our reps were ejected) there will be a further three waves ("tranches") of "restructuring" professional services. 2/4
Sep 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🤣@GoldsmithsUoL SMT's PR team has devoted 400 words in the latest "Recovery Briefing" rebutting our tweets... and the main clarification they wish to make is that the now infamous "Managing Resistance to Change" presentation was not shared by accident, but on purpose! 🤣😂1/4 And in case you missed it, here's the presentation management is so eager to stress they fully intended to share with colleagues 2/4
Sep 24, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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 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
Jul 20, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
We oppose @GoldsmithsUoL SMT’s planned handover of key financial decisions to the banks and the £4m of job cuts that will follow #StopTheSellOut 1/9 SMT is negotiating a £5-7m overdraft (“revolving credit facility”) with the banks, brokered by corporate accountants and consultants #StopTheSellOut 2/9
Sep 29, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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 Poor provision for online teaching:
We’ve not received adequate information or training to prepare for online teaching. It was only a week before term that ITS confirmed what platforms we should use, but not whether they will be able to deliver all modes of teaching required 2/8
Sep 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
GUCU memo on CONSULTATION ON LOCAL ACTION & KPMG/ SIZE & SHAPE REVIEW:

- E-survey consultation of all members on forms of action to take in dispute (please make sure to vote!)
- The Size & Shape Review / KPMG on campus

goldsmithsucu.org/2020/09/28/con… very important that members know exactly who KPMG are- and what they are doing on our campus
Sep 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Feeling the (extra) workload today? You're not alone... Image Image
Sep 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
'Goldsmiths Blindspots':
a letter by former staff has been published in this month's issue of @ArtMonthly, highlighting the management's inadequate response to previous letters addressing interpersonal and institutional racism at the College ImageImage arguing that w regards to the poor rating of @GoldsmithsUoL in the National Student Survey' 'the real source of student anger to be found in [...] the ongoing corporate restructuring of the College, rebuffed pre-pandemic as the inept and hostile ‘Evolving Goldsmiths’ strategy.'