Day 1 UCU Congress: BDS back on the agenda, all motions on Palestine passed as well as motion calling on UCU to take a motion to Trades Union Congress Congress challenging policy that supports increase in arms spending. Well done to our amazing delegates!✊🏼♥️🍉🇵🇸 #FreePalestine PSC

Students across the UK have set up encampments in solidarity with #Palestinians. A growing number of university faculty (many of whom are Jewish and Israeli) have publicly supported these encampments. A thread with links 🧵 1/15 #Palestine #Gaza National Students for Justice in Palestine

📣Good morning: Deptford Town Hall’s Council Chamber is NOW OCCUPIED because SMT refuse to stop the unnecessary cull of jobs as part of a move to destroy the arts and humanities. Listen to this Goldsmiths, University of London student's call for direct action and solidarity! Please share ✊⤵️

King’s for Palestine.

We condemn the security violence & verbal threats against our students. We encourage members to go to the encampment to show solidarity & will liaise with management & the other campus unions about this. It’s time for management to engage in good faith & show moral leadership.

Shocking. This is happening across the UK, while VCs continue to dole out platitudes about duty of care and wellbeing of staff and students. Trauma faced by staff and students because of senior management actions will not be easily forgotten Lancaster 🇵🇸 Solidarity Encampment Lancaster UCU UCU

Today marks 15 years since an immigration raid sprung on SOAS staff was carried out. We say NEVER AGAIN to university collusion in racist raids! Join the commemoration so SOAS never forgets ...

.King's College London is fully aware of the fact that Israel killed two of my family members and abducted my father in addition to killing former KCL students and affiliates. But this did not prompt any shift in policy or any meaningful change in public expressions of concern.

After suspending negotiations with the encampment, King's College London management ordered the students to leave by Friday or face disciplinary action. We demand that management immediately cancels this order, withdraws its threats & stops its complicity in genocide #FreePalestine

The KCL encampment made it possible to open up questions about divestment, complicity in genocide, and rebuilding Gaza’s shattered education infrastructure that we had been demanding for months with no movement. The students are awe-inspiring and I am grateful to them all.

Dr Dr Kesewa John, convenor of MA Black British History, has not even been in post a full year & now faces redundancy along with the collapse of this vital course. Goldsmiths, University of London management Shame on you. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/u… Pls sign & amplify the petition: change.org/p/save-black-b…

A public sector pay rise above inflation and UCEA suggest 2.5 is a full and final offer‼️‼️‼️ UCU @uculondon negotiations should like doctors explore a multi-year deal. A paltry 1.8 per cent in August is way way too low

Here to stay, here to fight: KCL UCU statement on far right violence (6 August 2024)

Well done to all UCU members who have campaigned for divestment! This is just a first step ✊🏽 ft.com/content/db6956…

🚨HUGE divestment win 🚨 USS, Britain’s biggest private pension scheme, has dumped £80,000,000 of Israeli assets, including government bonds. We won’t stop here: we will continue pusshing for full divestment from Israel’s war machine & its genocide in Gaza ✊🇵🇸

Very proud that our branch has made divestment of USS a key priority - we passed a Congress motion in 2023 - and that national UCU is now moving on this. Long way to go but this a start ✊🏾❤️

We will march: police back down cnduk.org/we-will-march-…