🚨 Sheffield Hallam ballot for strikes action over 'scandalous' cuts.

With 225 academic jobs on line and 80 staff facing compulsory redundancy we must STOP THE CUTS.

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Appalling from Goldsmiths, University of London

So eager to push through a harmful and disastrous set of redundancies they’ve done a copy/paste of the documents Uni of Kent sent to their staff. Beyond shambolic and damaging. Which sums up the whole situation.

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UCU Leeds University stands in solidarity with students staging a peaceful sit-in at the Parkinson Building University of Leeds in solidarity with the situation in Gaza.

Full statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1R8…

Student Rebellion Leeds

BREAKING NEWS!

Students at the University of Leeds have just occupied the Parkinson Building indefinitely. Calling on university management to meet with them and negotiate following the release of their open letter last week, which is yet to be addressed by the uni

No ifs or buts, we need an immediate ceasefire. Israel's war on the Palestinian people must end now.

Join the PSC lobby and pressure your MP to vote for the SNP's motion here: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/ceasefireLOBBY

#CeasefireNOW

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Salma al Shehab has the support of Leeds University UCU and we will be campaigning for her release.
It would be great to see University of Leeds take a clear stance for the release of Salma, currently serving a 34 year sentence for tweeting in favour of Saudi women’s rights

Christmas shopping Amsterdam 🇵🇸

BREAKING: Over 1000 trade unionists at multiple sites across Britain are blockading arms factories that are supplying arms to Israel! 🇵🇸

#ShutItDown4Palestine

'Ministers are sacrificing the ability of UK universities to attract talent. Pay for many of our members in higher education is shamefully low, and the government's new policy will compound the harm that does.' – Jo Grady on the Tory immigration plans
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We are really concerned about the impact of this new policy on UK economy, on the care sector and those who rely on care services, and on migrants who are already here and their families, and those who will not be able to bring their families with them. 4/4

Health and care sectors are stretched because of high numbers of vacancies, and many people working in these sectors are paid below the new salary threshold. Even if exempt from the salary threshold, re care workers going to come to the UK if they can't bring dependants? 3/4

When we started our research in 2017 employers &others including migrant groups were critical of the 30K threshold originally proposed. Now after almost 3 years since Brexit we have come back full circle and beyond, with the new salary threshold of 38K 1/4
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Esther Simpson is occupied, again!

Student Rebellion Leeds have just taken over a lecture theatre for 24 hours - they’re running a whole day of workshops on climate justice tomorrow.

Their main message: University of Leeds must go further and faster, and engage more with students and staff!

Colleagues, including myself, in our department have published a letter out of concern for our alumnus Ahmed who is in Gaza & from whom we have not heard since 9th October.

His last post said 'I think this time is going to be disastrous. I’m not sure I am going to survive'

This is how the Home Office tells a 6-year-old girl that she won't get a visa to join her mom who got a permanent job in a British university.

One of the biggest protests in the history of Great Britain

We did it 1 MILLION

#CeasefireNOW

The #UN General Assembly vote for a ceasefire. We will remember those who voted for and those who caved to evil mass killings of innocent people.