#CoronaContract

Fighting to secure employment for casualised university and college staff

[Royal College of Art UCU ✊ @RcaUcu]

It’s happening again. @rca are getting rid of 28 beloved Associate Lecturers in the School of Design 😡🤯 please sign our open letter and lets stop this ideological restructure and SMT’s attempt to ruin art and design education. solidarity 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/By4Aim6UfU

[James Brackley @BrackleyJ]

✨REPORT ✨

@sheffielducu branch hv voted 94 - 0 to back the #PGRsAsStaff campaign, opposing the compulsory redundancies imposed by @DrJoGrady @UCU.

Members were also dismayed at the *4%* pay offer to @UniteUCU & called on UCU to engage in proper negotiations with staff ✊

[Cambridge UCU @CambridgeUCU]

UCU members: We need to keep resourcing the PGRs as Staff campaign at current staffing levels

UCU SMT still plans to reduce staffing for PGRs as Staff as the project apparently enters a new phase.

This would be a mistake for the industrial objectives of the union. A 🧵

[Sol Gamsu @SolGamsu]

This statement is positive.

It's come from the pressure that the MAB has created.

Pressure must be maintained while negotiations continue.

We can't call off the MAB for an interim agreement, we need a deal.

Sign this to keep the pressure on:
https://t.co/2DBJxwCQK6

[LocalToOssett @LocalToOssett]

Fears hundreds of jobs set to be put at risk at University of Huddersfield - from lecturers to cleaners https://t.co/IrXPsnviKJ #LocalToOssett #westyorkshire

[#CoronaContract @CoronaContract]

“This is a voluntary position (no salary)”

[Strathclyde UCU @StrathclydeUCU]

What’s that? The BOLD and PEOPLE ORIENTATED @UniStrathclyde want #PhD students to deliver modules? And to break the MAB.

AND NOT PAY THEM?

No cool #StrathLife bosses. Not cool.

#ucuRISING
#EnoughIsEnough
#phdlife
#RateLimitedExceeded

[Sheffield Solidarity Group @sheffsolgroup]

“Two university students held up a banner - now they’re banned from campus”

@sheffielduni continues to crack down on free speech and peaceful protest. Thanks to @sheffieldtrib for covering this scandal.

https://t.co/uDol8IbpZS

[Birmingham UCU @BirminghamUCU]

🚨It’s Horror Show after Horror Show, as management have tried to respond to the MAB. It’s been carnage at Exam Boards across the University and, unfortunately, the victims are mainly professional standards and academic rigour. Stories from across the University include:
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[Monash Casuals Network @CasualsMonash]

Just like "stopping the boats", London is learning and promoting from its (former) colonies.

Spence gutted @Sydney_Uni working conditions, and here is he gutting staff conditions @ucl.

Solidarity with workers in the #HigherEd sector beholden to these types.

[Kingston UCU: Solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 @kingstonucu]

First scabbed module marks coming in and they are absolutely inconsistent as expected. Students: map your marks against former assessments, check your feedback against criteria and complain that there are irregularities in the assessment process - ie not marked by module tutor.

[Sol Gamsu @SolGamsu]

We absolutely must have an immediate Branch Delegate Meeting.

If that means branches organising it themselves then we should do this.

We cannot let management undermine national bargaining and the dispute as a whole by picking off individual (& stronger) branches

[Leeds University UCU @leedsucu]

@UniversityLeeds A trusted source inside another area said they had never seen such disruption to marking and they find it hard to see how a single student will graduate from any of their programmes. They report the situation as "Completely F****d"

[Sam Marsh @Sam_Marsh101]

Well well well. It seems @SheffieldUni contract a security company for a "weekly digest" of things they've spotted on social media that could be a threat to the institution, including students running for election for @SheffieldSU. Great work by @nowthenmag uncovering this.

[UoM Rent Strike 2023 @rentstrikeUoM]

BREAKING: we have found out that the University of Manchester is planning to offer a £500 voucher and a letter to future employers to any student who is unable to graduate due to the UCU's marking an assessment boycott

[Royal College of Art UCU ✊ @RcaUcu]

In 2021/22 we won on #casualisation banning zero hours contracts at #RCA creating Associate Lecturer roles. Now SMT are proposing an ideological restructure in the School of Design that means 19 fixed-term Associate Lecturers will not be renewed @defendthearts @ucu_solidarity

[Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social @NewcastleUniUCU]

🚨 STRIKE ACTION 🚨

Today our five days of strike action begin. Today is also Newcastle University Open Day.

We will be there picketing, leafletting, and ready to have conversations with prospective students and their families/guardians about how the uni REALLY treats staff.

[#CoronaContract @CoronaContract]

@BrunelUCU

[#CoronaContract @CoronaContract]

.@Bruneluni soliciting scabs from former students - why does it not seem likely that “we would of course have explained the full circumstances before asking you to agree” 🧐

[Durham UCU PGRs @DUCUPGR]

You may want to apply for this opportunity to undermine the MAB for pay vastly exceeding how much @UWEBristol pays their proper markers (hence the workload dispute that’s led to this MAB).

If you get the job then decide to MAB, that sure would be a pity. https://t.co/gtJoItr1WE