🚨BREAKING: In a historic first, the CAC have accepted a bid for union recognition at Amazon.

Workers in Coventry could become the first ever workforce at a UK Amazon site to win union recognition.

Recognition would enable collective bargaining over pay, terms and conditions.

BREAKING: Miami University in Oxford, Ohio has launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

This is the third campus now holding an encampment, following the Columbia University encampment. It follows just an hour after the encampment launch at the University of North Carolina.

Disgraceful University of Lincoln, UK plans to axe over 220 staff jobs. UCU members are fighting back, we must stop these indefensible cuts 👇

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UCU is deeply concerned by the wrongful arrest of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor and Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London, in Israel. We condemn any attempts to stifle freedom of speech on the war in Gaza and demand that diplomatic access is…

This #MayDay we'll respond to the call of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions-Gaza & walk out in solidarity with Palestine and for the future of HE as part of the Stop the War workplace day of action, with rallies at Guy's & Denmark Hill. Workers unite for Palestine! ✊🏽

Model letter, please UCU branches add your voices to call for the release (now in line with a judge's order though not yet enacted) of our colleague Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. #FreeNadera

Our branch also wrote to Jo Grady & Justine Mercer UCU President, urging UCU to call for the release of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and enabling of diplomatic access. #FreeNadera

📢 𝟮𝟯𝗔𝗽r. 𝟰-𝟲𝗽𝗺 (UK time):
Join a hybrid round table to discuss the current health situation, political economy of & right to health in Gaza/oPt, and solidarity.

👉𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 to join us in Manchester or online
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We’ve written to Jo Grady & Justine Mercer UCU President asking that UCU denounce the arrest in Israel of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Prof in Law Queen Mary UCU & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and push for diplomatic access & her release. docs.google.com/document/d/1-N…

Germany detaining an academic leader just after he movingly articulated the need to think courageously and complicatedly in the face of powerlessness must be one of the most striking own-goals in a list of many own-goals.

While German policy tries to silence, let's amplify.

This week we wrote to KCL management about how work with Israeli universities will be at risk of complicity with Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza. According to KCL’s policy of values-based impartiality they refused to press the UK gov about the legal implications of these ties

Please add your name to the statement below & join the emergency protest at the German embassy today at 7pm! German police has detained Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta, who was due to speak at the Palestine Congress, stormed the congress itself & closed it down. ucw4palestine.org/2024/04/10/sto…

From under Israel’s bombardment, the workers of Gaza call for intensifying action to confront Israeli genocide.

Now is the time for courageous worker-led solidarity!

#Srtike4Palestine
#stoparmingisrael

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'The Vice-Chancellor [Shitij Kapur] reflected that the Israel/Gaza conflict was a difficult issue for all unis, and that he was reasonably confident that King’s had managed it well so far' 🫤

Minutes re King's College London's 'Values-Based Impartiality' kcl.ac.uk/about/assets/p…

Our banner at the front of the trade union bloc on today’s 200,000 strong national demonstration ✊🇵🇸

#CeasefireNOW #StopGazaGenocide

BREAKING: King's College London council chairman, Lord Geidt, was paid by US arms company to lobby MoD on its behalf, breaking the parliamentary code of conduct. Does King's senior management still have full confidence in him? #DemilitariseEducation theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

A scholasticide is being carried out in #Gaza while our universities claim 'value neutrality'. King's College London we are still waiting for your #ceasefire statement. Refusing to take a stance is not neutral!

Dear @UCU comrades & colleagues, please add your name! UCUHallam SOAS UCU UCUwestminster

Doesn't look photoshopped to us.

The day after #IWD it's revealed that University of Liverpool have one of the worst gender pay gaps in the Russell Group. Action needed desperately.