USIC_UCU
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We are the University of Sheffield International College @ucu branch. We represent academic and student experience staff at the college.
Joined May 2020
🚨🧵 Last week our ballot on this offer closed. Our members accepted the offer by a majority of 68% to 32%. This closes our 22/23 pay and conditions dispute, and brings to an end the first ever strike in an outsourced Higher Education provider in the UK. #ucuRISING
We are currently balloting members on this offer and we meant to add more detail to this! 🧵 Pay for staff earning less than £44k per year increase by 10% over this and the next academic year, and pay for staff earning more than £44k per year increase by 8%. #ucuRISING 1/
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Yet another first for us apparently! Thanks to all who came, was a really good discussion about how trade unions and workers should respond to the development of your party. And thanks again to @zarahsultana!
Thoroughly enjoyed speaking at Sheffield Trades Union Council yesterday – the first trade union body to host a Your Party speaker! Grateful to everyone who came to fight for our communities, our trade unions and a democratic socialist party led by the grassroots ❤️
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We hope that this meeting will be an opportunity for workers and trade unionists in #Sheffield to come together, hear @zarahsultana speak about how the new party will be built, and discuss what this means for the worker's movement in Sheffield and the UK. All welcome! 3/3.
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Sheffield TUC cannot formally endorse this new party at this time+does not have a mandate to do so. But we are resolved that a working class+Socialist political alternative to Labour is necessary+ we are mandated to seriously engage with attempts to build this alternative. 2/3
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Pleased to see our motion adopted and being implemented by @ShefTUC! We need to engage seriously with attempts to build Socialist and working class alternatives to Labour
We are pleased to announce we will be hosting a meeting with @zarahsultana, co-founder of the new 'Your Party' formation along with @jeremycorbyn, on Weds 24th Sept, 7pm, at SADACCA in #Sheffield. Meeting starts 7pm. Register for free ticket here: https://t.co/r3f4wkTZ4y 1/3
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We are disgusted to hear that @ucu and @DrJoGrady are threatening @UniteUCU with punitive pay deductions for action short of strike, something the worst employers in HE do.
Sometimes solutions are easy @DrJoGrady & @ucu Let’s sit down and talk without conditions or threats that damage everyone. It’s time to resolve this dispute. Our statement, with support from the following branch committees:
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USIC UCU reps showing solidarity with @UniteNEYH members on strike at Lumley Street today. Pictured: Branch Secretary @JordCullen
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🔴University and College Union Staff Say It Is a ‘Toxic Workplace’ as They Consider Third Round of Strikes UCU staff say they have been victims of “bullying and intimidation” by management, as they ballot for another set of walkouts https://t.co/74DBgqh7Au
bylinetimes.com
Exclusive: UCU staff say they have been victims of "bullying and intimidation" by management, as they ballot for another set of walkouts
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Support striking @UniteNEYH bin workers next Wednesday 9th July - join the mass picket! Unite members are demanding the right to be represented by the union of their choice - on strike for 10 months to get union recognition. Mass picket from 6am, lumley street depot. 1/
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🚨The British media claimed that Palestine Action may have damaged the planes at RAF Brize Norton "beyond repair", potentially costing the UK over £30mn. Flight tracking data now shows the ZZ338 aircraft, one of the two targeted by Palestine Action, is already back in the air.
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Message to the Executive Board from our picket line yesterday
UCU members were on the pickets yesterday @UniofBradford over proposed compulsory redundancies. It's time for the employer to start taking negotiations more seriously @ucu @NazShahBfd @Judithcummins @Imran_HussainMP @TUC_NEYH
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DMA statement on the @DurhamGala and Reform UK. Reform chose to criticise us publicly for not inviting them to the #DurhamMinersGala. They obviously don’t understand how this works, so we will explain... Read more: https://t.co/Ivk3C1HeMO
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(1/2) With a heavy heart, I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as a whip. Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.
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Solidarity @NewcastleUcu and all those rallying to stop redundancies today! #DefendHE #NoRedundancies
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Solidarity to @NewcastleUcu and all those rallying today in defence of jobs and education #DefendHE #NoRedundancies #SpreadTheResistance #Solidarity
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It is important to remind people what the dispute is about: Bin workers in Birmingham waking up one morning and being told their pay would be cut by up to £8,000. For some, up to a quarter of their pay. Putting their mortgages, rents and livelihoods at risk. The government and
unitetheunion.org
Further negotiations necessary after ballpark offer at ACAS is ‘watered-down’ by government commissioners and council leader who have never been in negotiation room
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Where is @BhamCityCouncil leader @CllrJohnCotton? He's led attacks on Brum bin workers pay. He thinks it's OK they should lose up to £8k per year. He says its a major incident. But he can't be bothered to turn up to negotiations. A Labour council leader. #WheresCotton
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NEW 🚨 | Badges for the bin strike. We have teamed up with @LadsLasses to produce a solidarity pin badge to support the Birmingham Bin Strikers: https://t.co/rK178O5Rsb Help raise £1k for the Brum Bin Strike. #StrikeMap
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I am very pleased to see this from @UcuUsic 👍💪 Will @sheffielduni make a similar committment to their staff @sheffielducu when the IA ballot results are announced later this week? The gambler in me says no they won't. The VC/UEB brook no dissent https://t.co/kGzedZ9IMr
bbc.co.uk
Thirty six staff were at risk of redundancy, but final redundancy notices have now been withdrawn.
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@UcuUsic Congratulations from Bradford Uni - we call on our employer to do the same!
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Congratulations @USIC_UCU! Let’s end this uncertainty & disruption @cardiffuni! We don’t want to do industrial action. You don’t want us to. There is an alternative!
🚨 Strike action tomorrow is now OFF following an emergency branch meeting of our members. Our employer has rescinded all the remaining redundancy notices and guaranteed there will be NO compulsory redundancies. /1.
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