KCL UCU is balloting!
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
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🗳️🗳️🗳️ hi comrades! A reminder to vote soon and #voteyes in BOTH the national @ucu AND the local KCL UCU ballot! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl
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🚨🚨Vote YES in our local ballot to send a clear message to KCL management that this will not stand. Sign the petition ⬇️ to call for Usama’s reinstatement. In solidarity with Usama Ghanem and Free Palestine #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
https://t.co/vxWu4iAgkS...
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Our formal dispute is also focused on what students like Usama have been protesting for and what a clear majority of KCL students want: KCL divestment from companies implicated in violations of human rights and international law. See more ⬇️ https://t.co/jA5AJOOyRO...
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Our union branch is currently in formal dispute with management and is balloting its members over the university’s failures to protect staff who have been subject to harassment and threats for their solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 ✊⬇️ https://t.co/obz7wUaRKc...
kcl.web.ucu.org.uk
KCL UCU is formally balloting its members over a trade dispute that is, at its heart, about glaring contradictions in King’s College London’s official stance of ‘values-based impartiality’, a...
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One of these students - second year Usama Ghanem - is fighting an indefinite suspension and cancellation of his visa for taking part in peaceful pro-Palestine protests on campus. If forced to return to Egypt he will face imprisonment and torture. full story here in the next post
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❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza ⬇️
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Full details of background of dispute, demands and negotiations here:
kcl.web.ucu.org.uk
KCL UCU is formally balloting its members over a trade dispute that is, at its heart, about glaring contradictions in King’s College London’s official stance of ‘values-based impartiality’, a...
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We need our members to come together and make this successful. Join the conversation and help us #GetTheVoteOut. We have our general meeting today at 2pm and a GTVO volunteers meeting at 11 on Friday. Come along or email ucu[at] https://t.co/Zt78Inu9ex to get involved!
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A strong YES vote in this historic ballot would give our branch negotiators huge leverage with management to make progress on these demands. VOTE YES IN BOTH THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL BALLOTS! 📮
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4. We are demanding a pause in the implementation of ‘King’s Strategy 2030’ so full consultation can take place. We demand commitment to no compulsory redundancies as a result of this strategy, and a commitment in the strategy for improvements in staff terms and conditions
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3.Failures to protect staff and institutional complicity in war crimes are result of the democratic deficit in KCL’s governance. We are returning to the demand of our unresolved 2023 local dispute that KCL Council must have at least 50% of its members as elected staff
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2. We demand reopening of negotiations on KCL divestment from companies enabling oppression in Palestine and a clause in contracts to allow employees to conscientiously object to participation in activity connected with the military, arms trade, fossil fuels or genocide
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1. We demand public statement reaffirming KCL commitment to academic freedom, anti-racism, and the protection of its community from intimidation, harassment+discrimination. We need independent investigation into mishandling of politically motivated complaints against our members
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We are balloting on FOUR interlinked issues that all come down to management intransigence and increasingly hostility to consultation. We're revisiting our previous disputes in light of two major developments: the genocide in Palestine and the national crisis in higher education
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This dispute has been guided by our membership and brings together different trade disputes going back to 2023 - related to academic freedom, divestment, governance and working conditions - under ONE action.
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KCL UCU’s ballot is running at the same time as the @ucu national dispute on pay and jobs. It speaks to problems at KCL where working conditions are connected to a democratic deficit in governance and the institution’s untenable ‘values-based impartiality’ stance on genocide
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With our local dispute, we are the first university (and the first workplace!?) in the UK to formally ballot members over possible industrial action that relates to our employer’s response to global injustice and the oppression of the Palestinian people 🇵🇸
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🗣️🗣️ calling all anti fascist educators and union members: TOMORROW 8 October at 8pm join the London Regional UCU online organising meeting about ‘Education. Immigration, and Racism’ it’s time to stand up to far right extremism and fascism in Britain 🗣️🗣️
ucl.zoom.us
Speakers: * Diane Abbott MP * Jo Grady, General Secretary UCU * Maria Chondrogianni, President UCU * Kevin Courtney, Stand Up to Racism * Charlotte Khan, Care for Calais * Samira Ali, Women against...
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