✊ “It’s time to build an education service for the many, not the few, not just the privileged.”
- UCU president Maria Chondrogianni at #TUC2025, moving our motion for a fully funded national education service.
✅ Delegates backed the motion unanimously.
“Warwick is distinctive because it’s real.” Using university funds to pay for an advertorial in Vogue Singapore where an executive is featured in a fashion photoshoot and discusses his legacy is possibly one of the most tone-deaf moves I’ve ever seen in UKHE and the bar was already incredibly high.
Backlash at BCU: the divisive reign of David Mba
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/a-new-vice-c...
Solidarity with our excellent colleagues at BCU!
Saffi with megaphone
Thank you to South and City College Birmingham @ucu.org.uk rep and FE NEC member Saffi who brought support to us at our lobby of the @mybcu.bsky.social governors meeting. Draws attention to cuts to adult education and university cuts as part of a wider program of attacks on student access to support
Aidan with megaphone in front of BCU signage
Great support from @staffsucu.bsky.social Aidan at our @ucu.org.uk lobby of the @mybcu.bsky.social governors today. Thank you Staffs for your ongoing support including your donation to our fighting fund!
#SaveBCU
Please support BCU staff fighting against cuts! We're repeatedly told these are not financially driven yet they have been rushed through with little planning or fairness.
Geoff with megaphone in front of branch banner
Learning rep Geoff addresses the @ucu.org.uk lunchtime lobby of @mybcu.bsky.social governors, drawing attention to the impact of cutting graduate coaches: increasing caseload will reduce the individualised attention our graduates need and deserve
#SaveBCU
Hannah with megaphone
New member @1hannahharvey.bsky.social who has supported members as a @ucu.org.uk buddy addresses our lunchtime lobby of the @mybcu.bsky.social governors today, bringing attention to the importance academic skills members bring for students - disbanding these teams will hit students hard
. @ucu.org.uk membership secretary Graham addresses the lobby of @mybcu.bsky.social governors this lunchtime highlighting the value teaching and learning librarians bring to students & the damage cutting them will do
#SaveBCU
Professional Services rep Pete reading a list of areas affected by cuts at lobby
Professional Services rep and @ucu.org.uk negotiator @pjcrowther.bsky.social reads out a list of the areas affected by cuts and downgrades at our lunchtime lobby of the @mybcu.bsky.social governors today.
No to redundancies, no to downgrading, no to cuts to student support!
Did you sign yet? 🖊️
📢📢📢Starting soon 📢 📢📢
Join colleagues and supporters at the UCU lobby of the governors meeting.
No to redundancies!
No to cuts to student support!
Adult education is under threat. Funding slashed by 6% and no mention in the government’s spending review.
As a vital lifeline for so many we can’t let it be cut without a fight.
Tomorrow, 6pm we launch our campaign to #SaveAdultEducation.
Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cQ...
UCU members outside BCU
🚨 Lobby the BCU governors! 🚨
On Wed 16th BCU governors are meeting for an update on the current review, which has put 342 staff at risk of redundancy & cuts student support in multiple ways.
Join our lobby: 1pm outside Parkside Building
Bring your solidarity and your sun cream! #SaveBCU
📢 Birmingham City University is planning cuts that put 342 staff at risk, slashing student support despite admitting there’s no financial need.
This is a threat to student success and staff wellbeing.
✊ Sign the petition to stop the cuts @bcu-ucu.bsky.social
Petition to @mybcu.bsky.social governors: remove the threat to 342 jobs and cuts to student support at BCU!
Please sign and share
@ucu.org.uk
www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
Please sign and share to support @bcu-ucu.bsky.social
Solidarity with BCU UCU! Please sign and share their petition.
Production underway for the next batch of Join UCU fidget toys for @bcu-ucu.bsky.social’s recruitment push as we battle the threat of compulsory redundancy with 342 colleagues put at risk.
Please support @bcu-ucu.bsky.social and sign our petition to stop the threat of compulsory redundancy for 342 staff. chng.it/nKTdm2RCZ7
@ucu.org.uk branches we need your support!
Petition to @mybcu.bsky.social governors: remove the threat to 342 jobs and cuts to student support at BCU!
Please sign and share
@ucu.org.uk
www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
. @bcu-ucu.bsky.social members have been amazing: stepping up as buddies to accompany at risk colleagues, joining drop-ins not just to get advice but to offer support, s - and - voting overwhelmingly to escalate strike action as we approach a new year if there is no movement in our dispute.
Beyond busy with amazing @bcu-ucu.bsky.social as we fight a 340+ attack on jobs & ongoing dispute over performance management against a backdrop of suddenly imposed workload-increasing policy changes at same time as shrinking teams with over 200 "silent redundancies" through MARS.
Button with trans colours reading "Trade Unions 4 Trans Rights"
BCU UCU are hosting an open trans rights organising meeting: Thursday 3rd July, 6pm, in the Smoke Room at the Woodman. Please do come along and invite colleagues. Please also check your email for a link to fill in the EHRC consultation by Mon 30th June, along with UCU guidance for this.
BCU UCU members in sunshine with banner at strike rally
BCU UCU members 📢
Branch meeting Monday 1pm. Check your email for your link. Come along to build our collective fight-back!
BCU and UCU logos
BCU Fightback:
Daily at-risk advice briefings: 8am and 5pm - check your inbox for details on how to join.
Support at risk colleagues: volunteer to be a UCU buddy, link to send your availability in branch mailout.
Remember to contribute to our collective formal consultation, links in your email.
Today Liverpool Hope UCU held a rally on Open Day. Our fight is for not only our colleagues and jobs, but for our current & future students. They all deserve the best. #UCU
The results of the De Montfort university UCU branch's formal No Confidence ballot have now been confirmed: a resounding 90% voted no confidence in the VC and the ULB
This is the fourth significant No Confidence vote passed during the current round of proposed redundancies
