UCU delegate Tom Jones from UCU St Andrews supporting composite I on Housing at #STUC24 calling for an interim rent cap to protect renters from rent increases, and supporting the work of Living Rent

The List keeps growing, but so does the resolve of many in Higher Education that this sector deserves defending.

A short 🧵 of 5 first steps for anyone new to union organising and/or overwhelmed and unsure where to start.
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Just 8 days left to get the last 18,796 signatures from UK residents. Sign and circulate outside of Twitter

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Fellow UCU migrant members & branches, a document which has been written by Bindmans Immigration team on the new changes coming into effect tomorrow has been uploaded on UCU website.
If there is something not covered get in touch.

Please share widely!

ucu.org.uk/media/14383/Su…

Speak out about Israel’s execution of journalist Mohammad Abu Sukheil. An execution carried out in a hospital. Never normalise Israel’s horrific acts.

Solidarity with our NUJ Scotland STV News comrades. Hardworking journalists deserve a decent pay rise #NUJSTVStrike ✊

The fab team at Queen Mary UCU have gathered this frankly shocking list of universities running redundancy programs in various forms - it makes grim reading for the health of the sector: qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

Can your branch get us over 1000 today? Please sign and share with members, friends, kith and kin Keele UCU Kingston UCU: Solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 Leeds Beckett UCU Leeds Trinity UCU UCU Lincoln **NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES** Liverpool Hope UCU University of Liverpool UCU Won Its Pensions Back Liverpool Hope UCU Loughborough Uni UCU #UCURising University of Nottingham UCU branch ReadingUCU and Proud #ucuRISING UCU St Andrews UCU Salford Southampton UCU

'Apartheid 101' - Panel this Thursday 21 March in St Andrews, as part of anti-Apartheid week. All students and staff welcome.

Alongside signing this letter, we invite academics and union members to sign and amplify this urgent petition: 5/ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

STRIKE ACTION WITHDRAWN: SMT have agreed to lift the risk of redundancy from MLTI staff. A win! #saveUoAlanguages

UK Gov Minister smeared the names of 2 women academics, endangering them by saying they supported terrorist orgs. @UKRI compounded this by responding instantly online & suspending the body they had been appointed to. They now concede the comments were false. Where is the apology?

at some point it is going to be easier to list which universities are *not* opening a Voluntary Severance Scheme or threatening redundancies.

again, for the VCs in the back: SHORT-TERM CUTS IN STAFFING COSTS DO NOT SOLVE ANY PROBLEM IT ONLY ENSURES YOU SHRINK.

Science minister Michelle Donelan forced to withdraw false allegations about academics who tweeted in solidarity with Palestinians.

“It is extraordinary that a minister should be guided by a lobby group into making serious false allegations” theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

If you can afford to, please help one of our colleagues to get her daughter out of Gaza gofund.me/3650ab81

Reminder - this is today!

Town Hall for Gaza - Tuesday 5th March, 5-7pm Sandy's Bar in the SU.

A space to think, talk and plan together, and decide on joint student-staff actions in solidarity with Palestine.

All St Andrews staff and students welcome.

Leaving this with no comment:

People & Planet gave University of St Andrews a 2:2 (78 out of 151) for environmental & ethical performance.
In particular they awarded 0 points on:
Living Wage
Equality for Outsourced Staff
Can't Buy My Silence
% of fixed term contracts

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