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The trade union for academic and related staff at the University of Edinburgh. Press enquiries: ucu.president @ed .ac.uk Otherwise: ucu @ed .ac.uk RTs≠endorsement
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Vice-Chancellor Peter Mathieson is paid a salary of £340,000, £42,000 in pension contributions, full expenses, a free five-bedroom house in New Town, & not one but two 24-hour chauffeurs. The Uni paid £26,000 to relocate his cat.
When challenged, he said it was "complicated."
Two university bosses were asked by
@ApsanaBegumMP
to justify VCs ‘earning’ £250k+ salaries while some staff take home as little as £15k.
Their contemptuous response: we are just like CEOs, with more responsibility & more complex jobs than you.
Vote YES.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Agreement reached. PhD tutors on scholarships will NOT face disciplinary action for striking.
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It is our branch policy to demand that
@EdinburghUni
neither host nor facilitate meetings which contain content which is transphobic, biphobic, homophobic or otherwise detrimental to the safety and wellbeing of LGBT+ staff.
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We condemn forcefully the racist attacks on our branch officer and comrade
@DrSarahLiu
for standing in solidarity with trans staff, students and others. An injury to one is an injury to all.
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In line with our democratically-agreed policy, we opposed this transphobic event last time they tried it and will do so again.
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Solidarity with staff at Boğaziçi University! 🛠️✊❤️
Declaration by Boğaziçi University professors against the latest (and by far the worst) move to subjugate one of the best universities in
#Turkey
(in addition to so many other universities in this country)
#bogaziciuniversitesi
#KabulEtmiyoruzVazge
çmiyoruz
#academicfreedom
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According to Vice Principal Gavin McLachlan,
@EdinburghUni
is in "larger than expected surplus" primarily due to cuts made to the
#USS
pension scheme.
"Which is, of course, fantastic news."
Hear for yourself how university management celebrates you losing 35% of your pension.
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We are delighted to hear that Ann Henderson, feminist, trade unionist, and social justice activist, has been elected the next Rector of the University of Edinburgh. Congratulations
@ann4rector
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UCU Edinburgh unreservedly condemns the verbal and attempted physical assault on Julie Bindel as she was leaving campus after speaking at the panel discussion entitled - Women’s Sex-Based Rights: what does (and should) the future hold. 1/2
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FYI,
@EdinburghUni
has refused our request to spread strike pay deductions over 3 months, will take the full 8 days' pay in January. We know that Uni of Glasgow will spread deductions over two months. So why are you doing this,
@EdinburghUni
?
#UCUstrike
#UCUStrikesBack
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Reminder that
@EdinburghUni
reported a £113 million surplus last year.
Last week, VC Peter Mathieson complained that ‘it hurts to be seen as uncaring and unsupportive.’
Maybe try not cutting pay by 20%, pensions by 30%, and hot drinks by 100%.
Edinburgh University staff slam ‘penny-pinching’ bosses for 'taking away' free teabags
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As such, we have written to the University to ask them to withdraw the use of a UoE venue for what we believe to be a transphobic event timetabled for next week.
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The overall percentage of staff on fixed-term contracts at
@EdinburghUni
is 50%. Look at the worst areas. Sustainability cannot be built on precarity.
#ucuRISING
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It’s unacceptable for
@EdinburghUni
staff to face delays in being paid what they’re owed for work they’ve done. The university need to pull out all the stops to pay people so that they can pay their rent, bills and meet their financial commitments. 1/4
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Know your rights!
re: industrial action over COVID-19
While workers in other countries have struck over this, you shouldn't need to in most cases. You can take action under Health & Safety law without a ballot or giving your employer the right to dock your pay.
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The UoE UCU Branch is aware of a teach-out scheduled for Wednesday morning discussing gender and sex. While the branch supports academic freedom, this event will not be held under the UCU banner as it contravenes national and local equality and inclusion policy.
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Students at
@uoessps
are staging a sit-in to protest their hot desk spaces being cut from ~50 to ~20 for 1st and 2nd-year soc sci students. This decision allegedly came from surveilling Ph.D. student internet usage to monitor how much they use their office spaces
#phdprecarity
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We're just saying *teaching staff* didn't tell students to move across countries during a pandemic to then lock then in accommodation with inadequate mental health support and food packages so bad they made the news.
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Motion passed at UCU Edinburgh General Meeting on Friday is a good enough indication of how proposed deal is now being received by our members
@ucu
#ucustrike
#strikeforuss
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It's crunch time in UK universities.
@EdinburghUni
today, many final year students will be told they won't see their hard work rewarded with a degree because university leaders and
@UCEA
refuse to negotiate with
@UCU
. The picture is the same across the UK 🧵
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A huge result & a clear message to
@EdinburghUni
: we will fight to defend our pensions & we will win.
81.2% for strike action, 92.9% for ASOS, & 59% turnout overall.
It takes a branch of committed members & organisers to get these numbers. Thank you all!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#USS
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A reminder of UCU’s strong position in support of trans inclusion . Liberation cannot be built on exclusion.
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It's exam board season
@EdinburghUni
, and contrary to the claims of management the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) by
@ucu
members is hitting hard. A thread 🧵
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Our graduands standing in solidarity with us. Thank you and congratulations on your graduation!
#UCUstrike
#UCUStrikesBack
#edinburgh
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Waiting for the VC to confirm all semester will be online and announce an opt-out for staff
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A massive THANK YOU!!!! to our wonderful members, students, and others who have joined the picket lines and shown solidarity this week. It's been wet and cold, but it's been fantastic to stand together fighting for fair pay, equality, and pensions! ✊❤️ Rest up, see you Monday!
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No shade to Peter's cat, who has no say in all this, but how much does your cat make per year?
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Management will always look to break staff-student solidarity but as
@EdUniStudents
articulate so perfectly in their statement of support below, we know staff working conditions are students' learning conditions.
We know another university is possible.
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There's nothing complicated about university management making bank on your stolen labour, your weekend workloads, your sleepless nights, your pensions.
Peter gets a 33% pay hike, we get a 35% pension cut.
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'tutors have been back at work for two weeks and many of us have yet to receive contracts or be paid at all'
Guaranteed hours tutor
@racheljmchung
on casualisation as gender inequality and their reasons for voting YES to strike action
@UCU
@UCUAnti_Cas
@UCUScotland
#FourFights
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Hello
@guardian
Please correct this. UCU Edinburgh has not pulled out of the boycott, merely paused due to where we are currently in the academic calendar. We are still very much committed to action and to winning these disputes.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Our students are: excellent, world leading citizens, who care about the future, about fair working conditions. They are critical thinkers and change makers. So why not listen to them
@EdinburghUni
, if you won't listen to staff?
📢 PAY YOUR WORKERS 📢
This amazing video from the ECA graduations today show that students know what needs to be done to solve this dispute 💪
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Staff: 35% pensions cuts and repeated real-terms pay cuts. Students: nowhere to live. Yet, there's always money for senior perks. VC even gets his fuel bills and Council Tax paid! Hardship for us, handouts for them. Enough is Enough!
#ucuRISING
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"It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle." - Angela Davis
#UCUStrikes
Day 1. Let's go!
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Principal: accepts 33% pay increase when appointed. calls it a "substantial pay cut" given move from "a high-salary, low-taxation environment."
Staff: face 20% pay drop and rising costs
Principal: "Sectoral challenges for thee but not for me."
#UCUStrikes
#FourFights
Day 7/2
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Amazing turnout for our end of strike rally on day three.
Thank you to everyone who held down the picket, handed out the hot drinks, or supported us on the virtual picket line!
The strike is only getting stronger, see you in the new year!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#USS
#FourFights
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What's happening at
@EdinburghUni
has rightly been described as a 'bin fire'. So was it preventable? Absolutely!
A short 🧵 with a timeline to show why. 1/6
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We stand in solidarity with University of California workers currently fighting for a cost of living adjustment (COLA), and strongly condemn the police response to their peaceful protests and the admin's threat of deportation to striking workers.
#ucscstrike
#cola4all
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To be absolutely clear, these jobs should NOT be 8 month posts. Our collective agreement on casualisation w/
@EdinburghUni
reads:
'By the start of academic year 2020/21 teaching fellowship contracts will be offered for no less than one year’s duration.'
Jobs: Teaching Fellow, The University of Edinburgh: The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS) is seeking to appoint x3 full-time teaching fellows for a fixed-term period of approximately 8 months within its Linguistics and English…
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Brief update as to what’s going on as
@EdinburghUni
gets ready for next week’s circus of graduating students without marks.
#ucuRISING
#MarkingAndAssessmentBoycott
in its 11th week. 1/10
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Packing chalk in picket goody bags was a genius move, if we say so ourselves
#madskillz
#UCUstrike
#UCUStrikesBack
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Just before today’s Bristo Square protest by our marvellous Edinburgh students calling to
#SettleTheDispute
, all staff received an e-mail from the VC welcoming
@ucu
talks with
@ucea1
. We’d like to provide a bit of context and some corrections. 🧵1/9
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Great open letter from students in support of our action and calling on our VC to act
#ucuRISING
#SolidarityForever
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Today our branch logged an official notice of dispute with the University of Edinburgh over its refusal to stop compelling staff back onto campus against their will and own best judgement as to their own safety. 1/2
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#ValentinesDay
&
@EdinburghUni
#UCUstrike
staff across Central Campus clearly❤️picketing. Let's hope
@UCEA1
&
@UniversitiesUK
share the❤️& settle these disputes ASAP!
#edinburghimpact
#UoEstrike
#ucuRISING
@UCU
@UCUScotland
#Edinburgh
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Growing longer by the minute. What are you waiting for? Come and join us!
#StrengthOfFeeling
#UCUStrikes
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Branch statement on EAFAF film screening and what you can do to support and show solidarity with staff and students
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We condemn in the strongest terms UC's firing of 54 grad students for their strike action in demand of a Cost of Living Adjustment. Solidarity with UC workers
#COLA4all
We are fired and it's official.
@UCSC
terminated student workers engaged in
#ucscstrike
strike for a Cost of Living Adjustment (
#COLA
). Did we get a COLA? No! So why would we stop striking?
#cola4all
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'If "returning to a normal footing" for the university means returning to the continuing exploitation of staff that keeps the university running, then I and many of my fellow students are happy never to return to it.'
MARTHA! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My reply to
@EdinburghUni
Principal & Vice-Chancellor's underwhelming response (see thread) to students supporting staff industrial action. It's just not good enough and staff deserve better ✊🏻
@ucuedinburgh
@sssn_edi
#StudentsSupportTheStrike
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Today we filed a collective grievance with
@EdinburghUni
on behalf of members suffering detriment because of the
#PeopleAndMoney
(aka Pain and Misery) fiasco
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We're very pleased that
@EdinburghUni
has honoured the pay of guaranteed hours workers during this time. No worker should have to face economic precarity as a result of COVD-19.
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The Sandino Vive teach-out has been cancelled due to concerns about the Nicaraguan gvt raised by our members. As a branch & union we are committed to human rights & as a democratic org we take the lead from our members. We apologise for any distress caused by its scheduling.
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Our branch has reached agreement on a joint statement with our employer on the national dispute. We’ve been pushing for this for months. 🧵
Full text here:
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Unions to unis:
f2f teaching is not safe and will lead to a spike in cases.
Unis:
🤑💫Here is our magical covid-proof study space ✨🤑
Cases:
Spike
Unis:
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Results of branch survey on opt out of
@ucu
national strike days are in.
Members were asked: 'Do you wish to continue with the five days of national strike action from 25-29 September?'
Total votes cast: 1,076
Yes: 602 (56%)
No: 399 (37%)
Abstain: 75 (7%)
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Strong presence at the picket lines across
@EdinburghUni
campus despite the wind and the rain
#UCUstrike
#UCUStrikesBack
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Working from home entails additional costs of homeworking (gas, electricity, equipment, etc) and intense workloads. We have raised this with management; we are aware of the emergence of new problems, especially surrounding childcare now that schools have closed. (1/3)
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Picket line after picket line encountered in a 5 min walk around the
@EdinburghUni
central campus this morning. Tremendous turn out from striking
#ucuRISING
staff and students showing
#Solidarity
.
#UoEStrike
#edinburghimpact
#Edinburgh
@UCUScotland
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Let's talk about "profoundly regrettable," Peter.
What really hurts, here, is that staff are uncared for & unsupported.
We're striking to protect our colleagues & our students from brutal cuts & precarity.
If you wanted to "incentivise" us, you've succeeded.
#BreakingPoint
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Daily reminder that everything is not okay at the University of Edinburgh
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🌟you absolute stars! 🌟
yes yes on
#FourFights
.
57.8% turnout, 80% for strike, 91% for ASOS
✊🏾👊🏾🙌🏾we. fight. ON! ✊🏾👊🏾🙌🏾
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📣STRIKE SCHEDULE & TEACHOUTS! 📣
See our website for a full list of strike activities, both online and in person. Keep an eye out for more updates over the next few days!
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With the new stay at home orders, we absolutely must
#MoveOnlineNow
. Universities have a duty to public health.
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Our members have now been engaged in a marking and assessment boycott
#MAB
for 11 long weeks in the fight for better pay and conditions for university workers. We have had to take this action to get our employers to listen at all.
#ucuRISING
🧵
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when
@EdinburghUni
says they're against structural inequality, it's gaslighting...
#USSMess
#FourFights
#UCUStrikes
Day 9
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A very poor response from
@EdinburghUni
. 10 months salary spread over 12 months is still 10 months salary & doesn't address the precarity of the position. As
@UCUScotland
stated this is refusal to pay staff properly & displays disregard for what the job entails
#anticasualisation
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Senior management at
@EdinburghUni
should be hanging their heads in shame. What a way to treat anybody. They need to break their silence and take action on this now!
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hey
@EdinburghUni
. tell us again how you care about equity and inclusion?
keeping universities wealthy and white since 1582...
BREAKING: The Universities Superannuation Scheme Joint Negotiating Committee has today formally voted to implement cuts to future
#pension
benefits for tens of thousands of UK university sector staff.
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Our pensions are not their surplus. Vote for action on
#USS
.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@UCUScotland
@UCU
@UCUSPresident
@DrJoGrady
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The only thing anyone wants to hear about teaching from senior management is “thank you”
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It's been three months of
#MAB
at UCU Edinburgh, where salaried members are facing 50% pay deductions for their participation in the boycott. A short 🧵 on where we are:
1/
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Today we’ve sent a letter to
@EdinburghUni
condemning the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism without staff consultation, co-signed by
@UoEREN
,
@UoEBAME
&
@Uncover_ED
. Here’s why. 1/6🧵
Read the full letter here:
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A strong UCU presence keeping the fire burning at King's Buildings this morning!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#USS
#FourFights
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Tomorrow
@Edinburghuni
hosts
#EdinburghOpenDay
, and management is desperate to maintain the fiction that it’s business as usual. But we’re in the middle of a crisis. Thousands of students won’t get their degrees in July.
#ExtraordinaryEdinburgh
indeed. 🧵
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This is unacceptable. We are calling on
@EdinburghUni
to provide urgent assistance to these students.
@ucuedinburgh
members and
@ucu
are willing to help.
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#ucuRISING
is about hope for the future, for a university we can all be proud of
@EdinburghUni
@UCEA1
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UCU Edinburgh is aware of a teach-out scheduled for Wednesday morning discussing gender and sex. While the branch supports academic freedom, this event will not be held under the UCU banner as it contravenes national and local equality and inclusion policy.
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We value the support of
@Occupi_ED
so much and we cannot overstate how vital it is that
@EdinburghUni
has never sought to reprimand them for their bravery and solidarity. Shame on
@StirUni
.
#ReinstateTheSuspended13
Please follow for the latest updates and statements from the suspended students at Stirling, also known as the Justice for the Stirling 13 campaign.
In the meantime, please make sure we continue to share the petition which now has over 3000 signatures!
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