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Here is our strategy for Oxford Brookes. Workers are the foundations of our university.
@ucu
@oxford_brookes
@AnnelieseDodds
@LaylaMoran
@chrisjarvisdiy
We need:
1) Transparency: better communication on the financial situation and a policy to ‘open the books’ 1/4
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We are very happy to announce our branch meeting today decided to donate £5000 to the
#UCU
#USSstrike
#usstrike
Fighting Fund. In solidarity to all members on strike and especially casualised staff and women who are most affected by it. We will win this!
@UCU
@OxfordUCU
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Ulster, Cambridge, Sussex, SOAS, Goldsmiths, Bath, Manchester, Reading, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Warwick, Strathclyde, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Keele, Liverpool, Hull, York, LSHTM, Exeter, Stirling, UEA, QMUL, Bristol, Cardiff reject deal
#NoCapitulation
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Although we were not able to join our colleagues this time,
@BrookesUCU
has donated £5,000 to the
@ucu
national strike fund. Solidarity to those who spent the last week-and-a-half on the picket line to improve the conditions of staff and students!
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**UPDATE** 45 branches vote to REJECT and NONE accept the
@ucu
/
@UniversitiesUK
proposal
#NoCapitulation
#ussstrikes
#ucustrikes
#strikeforuss
@BBCNews
@BBCScotlandNews
@ram_51
@SkyNews
@GdnHigherEd
@GuardianEdu
@FinancialTimes
@timeshighered
@ucu
@UniversitiesUK
and
@AcasOrgUK
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Huge Congrats to Oxford Brookes UCU members! Turnout of almost 58% in the re-ballot and a huge mandate for industrial action for better pay and working conditions! Great work!
@BrookesUCU
@ucu
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It's as cold as the neoliberal logic of marketised higher education out here, but
@UCU
members are still striking for better working and learning conditions in universities
#UCUstrikes
#OneofUsAllOfUs
#FourFights
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A deal has been made but members are heavily criticising it
#strikeforUSS
#USSstrike
@ucu
- Open letter for members to sign rejecting the UCU/UUK agreement at ACAS
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#stoptheSHAMcuts
#thisisNOTtheend
In November managers
@oxfordbrookes
declared 48 jobs “at risk” with 20 needing to be cut. Our campaigning, negotiating & balloting have reduced the number of compulsory redundancies to two. We still intend to reduce that number to zero. 1/2
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A well attended Branch EGM today voted unanimously (bar 1 abstention) on a motion of no confidence in the
@oxford_brookes
VC and on the following motion on redundancies and closures
@ucu
. We contest the financial predictions, the 'consultation' process, and the redundancies.
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This is disgusting and we will continue to fight against the closure of Music and the 2 imminent redundancies involved, as well as those emerging during the teach out. We’re really sorry to read this Alexandra! This is a very sad day for
@oxford_brookes
Notice served. 18.5 years' loyal service, five books with leading publishers, 6th and 7th on the way, an international prize, two massive grants, loads of "impact" work, glowing teaching reports. Need another job. Surely someone would value all this. Please spread the word.
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Message from
@AnnelieseDodds
to
@oxford_brookes
VC. Very glad to hear this support from our local MP and hope this meeting happens soon.
#stoptheSHAMcuts
#saveourlecturers
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The Re-ballot Begins!! Let's get out and vote to mobilise for our rights
@UCU
@DMissero
#oneofusallofus
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Thanks to everyone for your support up to now, but the fight is only beginning! Here is the link to our petition and open letter explaining the situation at Brookes up to today. Please sign and share very widely!
@ucu
@DrJoGrady
@The_TUC
@musicatbrookes
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The branch exec met today and has prepared a statement that will be published tomorrow, as well as a motion for the NEC. We stand in solidarity with all colleagues involved and will fight against these decisions which as it stands we do not understand or consider justified.
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‘We are not customers!’ Students protesting at Brookes today
#stoptheSHAMcuts
#saveourlecturers
@saverlecturers
@ucu
@DrJoGrady
@oxford_brookes
@OxfordMailLive
@OxTweets
@BBCOxford
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Open letter from
@DrJoGrady
and the
@ucu
leadership to the
@oxford_brookes
VC: we are angry and disappointed at how little you value, or even understand, the work of your staff
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As this new wave of strikes proceeds, we know that our strongest weapon is strengthening the solidarity between students and staff!
#UCUStrikes
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#FourFights
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We need to open a big debate about the future of post-1992 Unis. Several of us are threatened with redundancies and closures in arts humanities & social sciences with questionable financial arguments.
@aberdeen_ucu
@BrightonUCU
@StaffsUCU
and + to come. Stop destroying our future
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In coming days the fate of many people at
@oxford_brookes
is being decided. We want to reiterate how unjustified compulsory redundancies would be & how devastating this would be to what our university needs. Please listen to us and to proposals by those affected!
#stoptheSHAMcuts
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We need people to realise what’s happening to basic aspects of education - let’s not rip apart the progress we made in last 50 years in opening up higher education to more people from all backgrounds - we need to do more of that, not less!
#stoptheSHAMcuts
#protectpost1992s
@ucu
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The campaign is building! Stop the redundancies! Stop the attack on arts, humanities and social sciences!
#OpenTheBooksatBrookes
@ucu
@musicatbrookes
Sign the petition to save Music at Brookes
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This seems similar to what we’re facing at
@oxford_brookes
- especially re PHD supervision which was in some cases completely forgotten from calculations… and with no plan for what PhD students will do after losing both supervisors following redundancies. Simply outrageous
See the link for a detailed rebuttal of management’s numbers assembled by staff in Modern Languages
#saveUOALanguages
#stoptheconsultation
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More highlights from the second day of strike action! Dogs, placards and banners and loads of solidarity at the picket line ✊✊✊
#UCU
#FourFights
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Thanks to
@DrJoGrady
for joining us today with a clear message: 'Things have been getting worse in our sector for the last 10 years and without collective action it is certain that they will be even worse in the future.' Join the Union, reach out to your colleagues and students!!
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Today we suggested to our VC in an open briefing that him and the rest of the VCG could voluntarily take a pay cut… seems reasonable, no, instead of sacking people? Oddly, they didn’t think it was a good idea. In fact, it seemed it hadn’t even crossed their minds!
#OpenTheBooks
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Dont stop the Music!
@musicatbrookes
@MusicatOxford
@MusicHigherEd
@oxford_brookes
@ignatius_sancho
@ucu
#stoptheSHAMcuts
#thisisNOTtheend
Student protest now!
@OBU_UNISON
@BrookesUnion
@obuarts
@BrookesStaff
@AnnelieseDodds
@LaylaMoran
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Thanks for mentioning what’s happening at
@oxford_brookes
! We are indeed in ‘budgetary crisis’ but that doesn’t mean no one is to blame… and as with
@qm_ucu
it shouldn’t be the academics who pay the heavy financial price by being docked absurd amounts of pay or losing their jobs
The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price.
My column on a modern-day Scrooge
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Students at University of Reading have gone into occupation!
@ReadingUCU
@UCU
#USSstrike
#ucustrike
@OxfordUCU
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Another fantastic day on the picket line✊solidarity, a participated rally (w/
@zenscara
) and an inspiring teach in!
#UCUstrike
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@UCUSOUTHWEST
@OxfordUCU
@chrisjarvisdiy
@OxfordTUC
@Oxford_Labour
@socstuoxf
@Lucy_1103
@OxfordSU_Pres
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Brookes’ debts are the result of vanity projects common across the sector and so while Brookes were one of the first this year to try to balance the books at the expense of jobs, they are likely to be the first of many.
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Want to hear the students' perspective? Listen to Yuri UG in Japanese Studies
@saverlecturers
who did his research, checked out the figures, and like us is wondering whether management thinks we're stupid? How could 40% cuts in staff (sometimes more) NOT affect students
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We’ve been very silent for various reasons - recharging, negotiating, marking… but so great to see the students
@saverlecturers
keeping the messages going out! branch exec is meeting this week and branch meeting on Monday so make sure to attend! More info soon
#stoptheSHAMcuts
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Our students are amazing!! Thank you so much for your support
#saveourlectuers
#stoptheSHAMcuts
#EnoughIsEnough
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Strike Action begins today across the UK (USS pensions)! Next week we will join them for the
#FourFights
! Solidarity!!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
University staff are striking today
We won’t let bosses destroy our pensions
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Day two of strike at Brookes!The right time to show some amazing banners!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#ucustrike
#FourFights
@The_TUC
@ucu
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We found out today that the university has cut heating down to 16*C as a non-pay saving measure - truly NO ONE and NOTHING is SAFE from the cuts! Students and staff are wearing coats and hats in classrooms and offices. Meanwhile, the VC’s office is apparently blocked at 22…
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We’ve made it to 1000 followers! Let’s continue building this and taking a stand against the destruction of HE in the UK
#stoptheSHAMcuts
@ucu
#oxfordbrookes
@ucu_solidarity
#saveourlecturers
@aberdeen_ucu
@BrightonUCU
@StaffsUCU
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SAVE YOUR DIARIES! Wed 6 December 2pm we are officially launching our campaign
#StoptheSHAMcuts
at Brookes! With
@DrJoGrady
and more speakers TBC including our amazing students from
@saverlecturers
JHB 208
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To all members and co-workers, please check the Open Letter from Brookes UCU Branch about Marking and Assessment Boycott Mitigations.
@UCU
#ucuRISING
#EnoughIsEnough
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Students have now an account on here so go follow them!
@saverlecturers
#saveourlecturers
#oxfordbrookes
Stop the SHAM cuts in Social sciences, Humanities Arts and Maths!
#savemusic
@musicatbrookes
@ucu
@DrJoGrady
#stoptheSHAMcuts
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Just heard
@DrJoGrady
reporting on the ongoing negotiations. We stay strong on the Picket Line with very young members, and ready to vote YES at the re-ballot!!
#ucuRISING
#UCUstrike
#EnoughIsEnough
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PROTEST AND MEETING TOMORROW! speakers confirmed are
@DrJoGrady
,
@BarbaraEichner
from Music
@saverlecturers
rep Yuri, one of our negotiators, and
@chrisjarvisdiy
from Oxford council. 2pm JHB208. All staff and students welcome!
#stoptheSHAMcuts
#saveourlecturers
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We were told that sector-wide factors necessitated job cuts. But as Brookes is the second most indebted UK university , we didn’t accept that. 2/3
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Important meetings are happening with management this week, so we will make a clearer announcement by Friday. For now, here are the results of our consultative e-ballot.
Members voted for ASOS and strike action by more than 86% with a majority of the membership participating. 1/2
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Student protest now! The placards symbolise the way these departments are being treated, like rubbish, left to the side, as if they’re alone and unwanted… the university is not its managers! Students and staff can resist the atomisation of universities
#stoptheSHAMcuts
@ucu
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The Re-ballot for industrial action is STILL OPEN, get out and VOTE YES!! The good way start the new year is by fighting for what is right!!
#fourfights
#oneofusallofus
@ucu
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Solidarity with Nina Doran, the fourth union representative victimised by the City of Liverpool College
#JusticeForNina
#UCUstrike
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@UCUCoLC
Tomorrow
#TwitterStorm
in support of Nina Doran of Liverpool City College who has been sacked for carrying out her duties as a trade unionist
⏰10-11am Mon 28 March on Twitter⏰
#JusticeForNina
@UCUCoLC
Go to
for solidarity selfie sign
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Our statement in response to
@ignatius_sancho
- once the university’s decisions re the end of the consultation period are communicated to all staff by Monday 29 Jan, we will be able to provide more detail.
#stoptheSHAMcuts
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You take us down? We come back up again! Resisting the poster brigade
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The VS scheme is already having a terrible effect on staff & students:
• increase of teaching workloads by 50% in some cases
• closure of modules this semester with little to no notice
• PhD students and UG dissertation students losing supervisors
#stoptheSHAMcuts
Enough!
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Dear
@ignatius_sancho
, as our
@oxford_brookes
Chancellor we hope you can support us in opposing these cuts to the arts, humanities, social sciences and maths. Thank you!
A well attended Branch EGM today voted unanimously (bar 1 abstention) on a motion of no confidence in the
@oxford_brookes
VC and on the following motion on redundancies and closures
@ucu
. We contest the financial predictions, the 'consultation' process, and the redundancies.
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Some updates from us: Brookes VCG announced that aside from colleagues in music (and we are still fighting this), all staff who were at risk of redundancy no longer are. In large part this was because the union argued that the VS scheme should be widened 1/
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Pics From our National Rally at King's Cross!! A 'what did you do?' Moment!!
#ucuRISING
#UCUstrike
#EnoughIsEnough
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We are without a doubt in the midst of the biggest crisis in HE. Fighting it &surviving is going to be tough. here is a list of
@ucu
wins in the last two years to help with building an organic movement based on exchanges and solidarity between branches ?
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Protest tomorrow!
Our next protest will be on Thu, 15th Feb and we will have speakers from the UCU, students from affected courses, as well as lecturers affected by the cuts. We will also be joined by Music students.
#oxfordbrookes
#oxfordbrookesuniversity
#obu
#saveourlecturers
#savemusic
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**BREAKING** 34 branches and counting vote to REJECT the
@ucu
/
@UniversitiesUK
proposal
#NoCapitulation
#ussstrikes
#ucustrikes
#strikeforuss
@BBCNews
@BBCScotlandNews
@ram_51
@SkyNews
@GdnHigherEd
@GuardianEdu
@FinancialTimes
@timeshighered
@ucu
@UniversitiesUK
and
@AcasOrgUK
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Stellar work from the students yesterday! Your support means EVERYTHING to us
@saverlecturers
#oxfordbrookes
#saveourlecturers
#stoptheSHAMcuts
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An important case and surely a warning to many other employers out there…
Uni of Leicester has been found to have wrongfully dismissed staff in one of the endless series of unnecessary restructures led by senior management ideological commitments and false accounting about "strategic" subjects. Just as Goldsmiths & SOAS plan more of the same...
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Our students are incredible - hope
@oxford_brookes
is listening to them
@BrookesUnion
@saverlecturers
@AnnelieseDodds
@LaylaMoran
@ignatius_sancho
@ucu
@BBCOxford
@OxfordMailLive
Their protests have raised awareness & we continue to argue the cuts are unjustified
#stoptheSHAMcuts
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In advance of tomorrow's negotiations between
@UCU
and
@UCEA1
, we at
@BrookesUCU
once again call for our VC Professor Fitt to add his voices to other VCs across the country who want to
#SettleTheDispute
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📣 Today our new Chancellor is inaugurated. Welcome
@ignatius_sancho
! Does he know he’s Chancellor to one of the 14% of UK universities subjecting academic staff to 💯% pay deductions today? How can his university be ‘a playground for the mind’ when educators aren’t being paid?
‘Oxford Brookes is a playground for the mind,’ says the actor and author Paterson Joseph (
@ignatius_sancho
) ahead of his inauguration as our new Chancellor later this week.
Watch our exclusive interview and find out more:
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‘The university if not its managers! It’s the students and staff’ 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Inspiring speech by
@chrisjarvisdiy
, OBU Alumnus and Oxford City Councillor, on the importance of resisting the cuts. Given at our rally on 6 December.
😡 Staff and students at Oxford Brookes University are resisting massive cuts across a range of programmes at the university.
✊ Last week I spoke at the
@BrookesUCU
rally against the cuts and in solidarity with the affected staff and students.
#StopTheSHAMCuts
@UCU
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Ulster, Cambridge, Sussex, SOAS, Goldsmiths, Bath, Manchester, Reading, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Warwick, Strathclyde, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Keele, Liverpool, Hull, York, LSHTM, Exeter, Stirling, Cambridge, UEA, QMUL, Bristol, Cardiff rejecting deal
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Don’t miss this in person event! More staff, student and external speakers TBC. And watch out for student protest that day too!
#stoptheSHAMcuts
An injury to one is an injury to all.
Stop the sham cuts at Oxford Brookes.
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Our quick response to
@oxford_brookes
VCG announcement re the cuts: Some damaging aspects of the cuts have been successfully resisted by affected staff and UCU working together. We have made progress but not as much as we feel necessary to remove the threat of action. 1/ 4
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In other news, on 2 Nov, the branch voted at an EGM a motion to express our solidarity with those affected by the conflict in Palestine and Israel, our devastation at the loss of life, and concerns over the right to academic freedom.
#CeasefireNOW
@ucu
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We are still here to campaign and protest against the closure of Music!
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Playin’out day 5 of
#UCUstrike
✊🎻☔️ thanks to all the comrades who joined and supported us on the picket line! Solidarity forever 🤝 and the fight continues!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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We agree! There are many choices available and also a need for more internal financial transparency! If financial situation relatively good why are we not capable of weathering the current external factors?
A range of choices could have been made. A range of choices could still be made. As colleagues elsewhere in the university are saved (including the mathematicians), why is the redundancy of Music staff something that is seemingly a done deal?
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A lot of our members feeling the same way! Also, we’re thinking of our members who are going to have to teach a lot more because colleagues are leaving through VS or worse!
“It’s hard to prepare for classes that you don’t know if you are going to teach beyond this year.”
#SaveUOALanguages
@aberdeen_ucu
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Great Turnout and Inspiring Speeches On the Picket Line Today!! The Fight Continues
#ucuRISING
@DrJoGrady
#EnoughIsEnough
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Our latest research, “Precarious academic work in Oxford: testimonies from Oxford Brookes and Oxford University UCU members”, gives voice to those who too often cannot question their terms of employment for fear of losing it
Read the report at
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Thanks to everyone who attended our last branch meeting of the year! What a mad 6 weeks. A very big THANK YOU to our negotiators. The campaign is escalating, with threats of industrial action and new information to share in the new year on the reasons for these cuts. 1/5
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Demand Better for Conditions for Workers, Unions Striking are the True Ring of Power!
#demandbetter
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The consultation period with
@oxford_brookes
Management has come to a close – officially ending on Wed 17 Jan. We summarise where the negotiating team believes things stand, following the period of formal consultation, and outlines our expectations and plans moving forward. 1/
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Yesterday’s protest! Well done to all and thanks for giving up your time during submission week!
@saverlecturers
#stoptheSHAMcuts
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Impressive line up from
@OxfordHistory
@UniofOxford
in support of colleagues at
@oxford_brookes
@brookes_history
@BrookesArtHist
THANK YOU!
@UCU
@OxfordUCU
@RoyalHistSoc
@AnnelieseDodds
@LaylaMoran
@BrookesHistory
#stoptheSHAMcuts
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This action is across all Universities and we are ao proud to be suppprted by members from
@OxfordUCU
- thanks so much to Bernie Hogan who spoke so well for so many
#UCUstrike
#UCURising
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Additional Events connected with the next wave of strikes, Come and Join Us at The Up in Arms Pub!!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#UCUstrike
Come and join
@BrookesUCU
for a Strike Day Teach out next Thursday!! You will get to hear me talking about the domestication of dissent (I.e. the Police, Sentencing, and Courts Bill). If that doesn't convince you, there is also beer and pizza...
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This is why we are going on strike again! The results are shocking and show the impact of precarisation on staff from the economic and psychological point of view!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#UCUstrike
#FourFights
The results of UCU's survey are shocking, and they show exactly why university staff across the UK are striking
Listen to our general secretary
@DrJoGrady
👇
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Take care of yourselves, replenish that fighting energy & don’t let them break your spirit. In January/February we will be hearing from reps and colleagues in branches which successfully fought against redundancies, so stay tuned! ✊🏽In solidarity with all branches under attack
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An absolute scandal that this may be their last concert - we hope not and will continue to fight against this terrible decision!
#stoptheSHAMcuts
The Oxford Brookes University and Community Orchestra brought the spirit of the famous Viennese New Year's concerts to Oxford with Johann Strauss' "Radetzky March" and Waldteufel's charming "Ice skaters" waltz.
#orchestra
#concert
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Here are the programme and details of our Teach-In Event for next Tuesday, planned as part of our current mobilisation
#UCUstrikes
#FourFights
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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