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Tweets by members of the University of Leicester branch of the University and College Union trade union.
Apr 16, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Apr 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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-…
#NoOneIsRedundant 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/
Apr 14, 2021 • 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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Apr 14, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Apr 14, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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
Feb 14, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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
Jan 27, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Jan 26, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
It's taken us a while to get our heads round what @uniofleicester's shaping for excellent redundancies plans might mean for @UoL_NPB (Dept of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour) because, well... let's see 1/ 2/ We've had qus re external consultant DataHE's projections of student recruitment figures throughout, but didn't expect to be asking how on earth substantial projected EXPANSION of Neuroscience and Psychology teaching is to be achieved through redundancies??? #NoOneIsRedundant