It bears repeating: it is unacceptable to respond to peaceful campus demonstrations with violent repression.

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The IWGB is a union founded on the struggles of migrant workers. Our commitment as a union is to a world where all workers, regardless of ethnicity or immigration status can live a life of dignity, respect and safety.

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🚨 TODAY - International Workers Day at Oxford!

Assemble at 11:30am at the International Brigade Memorial (South Park). The march will be followed by a rally in Bonn Square at 1pm, and lunch + workshops in the afternoon. Oxford TUC

Solidarity with all affected.

Join the International Workers Day at Oxford on Saturday 4th March, called by the Oxford and District Trades Union Council Oxford TUC!

➡️ March starting at 12:15pm from the International Brigade Memorial (South Park)
➡️ Workshops from 2pm

See below a full programme of events 👇

We send our solidarity to the many thousands of university students and staff across the world who are taking a stand against their institutions' complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

Full statement 👇

Disgraceful behaviour alleged of University of Oxford. All our solidarity with colleagues fighting (and winning!) against precarious work

#OneOfUsAllOfUs #JoinAUnion #GigEconomy

Solidarity with UCU Lincoln **NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES** members for this significant ballot result in support of taking industrial action against plans to target 220 jobs!

Without trade unions we wouldn't have:

• Annual leave
• Sick pay
• A two day weekend
• Maternity leave
• Protection from workplace discrimination
• 8 hour working days
• Redundancy pay
• A minimum wage
• Health and safety in the workplace
• Workplace pensions

#MayDay4Palestine in Oxford today!

Today! Birmingham UCU #internationalworkersday2024

Some photos from today's Workplace Day of Action for Palestine in Oxford. Powerful speeches from trade union reps and students.
#MayDay4Palestine #IWD2024

Union = power

Happy #MayDay 🎉 This International Workers' Day and every day we stand with workers and trade unionists fighting for our rights 💪

Solidarity ✊ #IWD2024 #MayDay

Huge thanks to Oxford UCU Oxford UCU Anti-Casualisation Network This means so much to Rebecca Abrams and me. I just had no idea how far University of Oxford would go to shut us up. Thanks also to Law for Change Leigh Day #ucurising #ubersisation #HigherEducation #Whistleblower

UCU branches across the country are taking part in the #MayDay4Palestine workplace day of action.

We stand with the Palestinian people and demand peace and justice 🇵🇸

Share our resources and tag us in your activities 👇 bit.ly/42sv7sZ

Today, on International Workers' Day, we respond to an urgent call for action & solidarity by Palestinian trade unions. UK universities remain silent on the systemic destruction of the education system and killing of educators in Gaza.

Join us in Broad St (Weston Library) at 12!

🔴We demand that the University immediately restores the hours of Oxford whistleblowers who won their claim for employee status at the Employment Tribunal! We will continue campaigning for employee status of staff on repeated casual contracts. To join contact us or Oxford UCU Anti-Casualisation Network

Motion passed resoundingly with support from colleagues in ⁦⁩ ⁦Oxford Continuing Education⁩ and across ⁦University of Oxford⁩. 🙏👍 ⁦Oxford UCU Anti-Casualisation Network⁩ and all who voted in solidarity with ⁦Alice Jolly⁩ & myself. #anticasualisation #highereducation ⁦Oxford Mail⁩

Please co-sign this letter calling on Secretary Antony Blinken to aid our Queen Mary University of London colleague.

🚨 Today's branch General Meeting overwhelmingly supported motions in solidarity with Oxford whistleblowers at Conted, international solidarity with marginalised workers & unions abroad, opposing restrictions for worker migrants in the UK, & supporting the Gaza family Visa scheme