UCU Branch at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
London
Joined December 2010
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On Thursday morning (6th June) staff representatives will meet with a group of Council members, in order to challenge Council's support for management's disastrous plans. On Wednesday (5th June), we are asking everyone to send Goldsmiths’ Council a message.
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CALL TO ACTION!
SAVE THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES!
@GoldsmithsUCU is calling on all staff, students, alumni, friends of the College, and members of the public who care about the future of A&H education in the UK to participate in an urgent TWITTER STORM this Wednesday 5 June at 10am!
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⚡️TwitterStorm for @GoldsmithsUCU!⚡️
🕙From Wednesday 𝟭𝟬𝗮𝗺 GMT
Tag #NotADoneDeal
Include @GoldsmithsUoL @GoldsmithsUCU
Encourage💰to goldsmithsucu.org/support-fu…
🌊TwitterWave🌊
On Wednesday and Thursday, look out for the #NotADoneDeal hashtag:
❤️and RT and keep the wave going!
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🚨HE IN CRISIS🚨
How Can We Build Resistance?
✴️Our sector is under attack — Redundancies,Pay&Conditions
✴️Important meeting for all @UCU reps!
⏱️6pm
📅Monday April 15
👉Register: bit.ly/UCUSM_HEcrisis
Supported by:
@Aberdeen_UCU
@ULivUCU2
@UCU_LondonMet
@RH_UCU
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ALT HE in Crisis: How do we build resistance?
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Staff at 48 HE institutions are currently facing redundancies and restructures.
We cannot just let it happen.
Open meeting on Monday 👇 on building resistance.
🚨HE IN CRISIS🚨
How Can We Build Resistance?
✴️Our sector is under attack — Redundancies,Pay&Conditions
✴️Important meeting for all @UCU reps!
⏱️6pm
📅Monday April 15
👉Register: bit.ly/UCUSM_HEcrisis
Supported by:
@Aberdeen_UCU
@ULivUCU2
@UCU_LondonMet
@RH_UCU
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ALT HE in Crisis: How do we build resistance?
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The latest cut to arts funding is yet another assault on higher education.
The creative arts is becoming the preserve of the rich, while the working class get shut out.
We need full levels of subject support reinstated.
Our GS @DrJoGrady's letter to @GillianKeegan👇
ALT A letter to Gillian Keegan from UCU over cuts to funding creative arts courses and widening access programmes. The full letter is available here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/14388/KeeganLetterApr24/pdf/KeeganLetterApr24.pdf
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We have today written to the university employer body UUK calling on them to review their UK-Israel research partnership scheme – in line with legal and ethical obligations to avoid any complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
@DrJoGrady’s letter to @UniversitiesUK 👇
ALT Letter from Jo Grady to Vivienne Stern
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Employee assistance schemes just try to mask bad boss behaviour.
We ended @EquityUK’s (little used) contract with Health Assured in 2021 for that reason
The BBC report isn’t the first red flag, & raises qs for @SpotlightUK who partnered with HA in Feb
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68537252
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Honoured to be elected as your @ucu National Executive Committee member, alongside brilliant folks like @drrhianelinor @MarianMayer20 @gbuttars. Thank you everyone for your support and your votes!! Fighting for a liberatory education system @defendthearts ✊❤️🤩
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QM winning at being awful again. 😬
Today (Tuesday 20th February) management ordered @QMUL security to break into the Queen Mary UCU office behind the Queens Building in order to remove posters expressing solidarity with Palestine.
ALT ceasfire now poster, with ucu logo
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Show your support for workers developing Broadway's future hits!
@EquityUK's sister union on stage in the USA is fighting to advance their development contract. Show @ActorsEquity some solidarity and sign their petition!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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Arts Council England to update ‘activist statements’ guidance after backlash theguardian.com/culture/2024…
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Northumbria is a massive university success story that does not match its business model. If the latter rather than the former is valued, the seemingly inevitable happens as UNIVERSITIES ARE NOT BUSINESSES. 😬
Solidarity with all staff @UCUNbranch This should not be happening.
Whatever happened to 'the University of the Year'?
Northumbria University job losses looming as staff warned of £12.5m budget cuts chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…
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No. We must not.
UK workers must accept lower pay deals to help beat inflation, says £375k a year Bank of England Deputy Governor.
Silence on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.
Average wage unchanged since 2006. Millions already in poverty.
It is class war.
theguardian.com/business/202…
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📢RESULTS ARE IN:
100% of ballots returned by our members in the @E_N_O chorus vote YES to strike action.
We cannot accept a 40% cut to their pay.
First day of strike action is 1st February.
#FairWageOnStage
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I have this afternoon authorised a series of strikes & other action at the English National Opera.
Cuts in pay, job losses- it’s shows who the bosses think opera is for.
@EquityUK is clear: opera is for everyone, & the workplace must be open to all.
#FairWageOnStage
💥The turnout among ENO chorus members was 94.11%
💥100% voted ‘yes’ to take action short of a strike
💥100% voted ’yes’ to full strike action
Read the full story: tinyurl.com/444w4dbk
ALT Photo shows large group of Equity members holding a large purple banner which reads 'Fair Wage On Stage' and waving purple Equity flags
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I have just resigned from the @ESRC @UKRI_News peer review committee and refused to review a grant proposal. See @ucu call. The ones who will suffer the most are my peers doing amazing job. But we need to restore some integrity and push back on gov interference
🚨URGENT UKRI UPDATE
On Wednesday we gave @UKRI_News 48hrs to reverse the suspension of its Equality, Diversity & Inclusion panel.
It has not done so.
We are therefore calling on all UCU members with any voluntary positions at UKRI to resign.
Post below once you've resigned.
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🚨Still to post those @ucu ballots? Options are limited but you can go to a Post Office and stump up £7.35 for Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by
1pm® The online price for the same is £6.85 #thechoiceisyours #ucuRISING #GTVO #NoToPrecarity @illdoitanyway @WestMidsUCU
ALT Image of UCU ballot papers
ALT Image of letter being posted in red post box
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Our reply to @michelledonelan's letter to @UKRI_News. This risks creating a chilling effect on freedom of speech and academic freedom
ALT Letter from Jo Grady to Michelle Donelan raising concerns about the singling out of academics and the impact on freedom of speech and academic freedom