Oxford Brookes UCU
@brookesucu.bsky.social
Oxford Brookes Branch of the University and College Union (UCU). Find us online at: https://oxfordbrookes.web.ucu.org.uk/
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Between them, politicians and employers are destroying our great higher education sector.
We won't sit back and let it happen.
#WeAreTheUniversity
We won't sit back and let it happen.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Reminder to all our Branch members to return your ballots.
Reminder to all our Branch members to return your ballots.
Between them, politicians and employers are destroying our great higher education sector.
We won't sit back and let it happen.
#WeAreTheUniversity
We won't sit back and let it happen.
#WeAreTheUniversity
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reminder to all our Branch members to return your ballots.
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📣 Every convo counts. Every vote matters. 💥
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📣 Every convo counts. Every vote matters. 💥
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
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TODAY. Get that vote in the post 👉
Ballots must be returned NOW. #UCU
@brookesucu.bsky.social
#industrialaction
#OxfordBrookes #University
Ballots must be returned NOW. #UCU
@brookesucu.bsky.social
#industrialaction
#OxfordBrookes #University
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
TODAY. Get that vote in the post 👉
Ballots must be returned NOW. #UCU
@brookesucu.bsky.social
#industrialaction
#OxfordBrookes #University
Ballots must be returned NOW. #UCU
@brookesucu.bsky.social
#industrialaction
#OxfordBrookes #University
One of our health and safety officers, Jill Millar, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Jill explains that cuts to time for assessment are being driven by a desire for financial savings. As a result, both the student experience and staff wellbeing will suffer.
September 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
One of our health and safety officers, Jill Millar, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Jill explains that cuts to time for assessment are being driven by a desire for financial savings. As a result, both the student experience and staff wellbeing will suffer.
Our branch secretary, @stuartwhigham.bsky.social, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Stuart outlines the impact that wider cuts to workload tariffs will have on our Associate Lecturer colleagues.
September 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Our branch secretary, @stuartwhigham.bsky.social, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Stuart outlines the impact that wider cuts to workload tariffs will have on our Associate Lecturer colleagues.
Our campaigns officer, Maïa Pal, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Successive cuts to research time undermine the research-led teaching which is the essence of a University education.
September 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Our campaigns officer, Maïa Pal, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Successive cuts to research time undermine the research-led teaching which is the essence of a University education.
We are balloting for industrial action at Oxford Brookes. 🚨🚨 REMINDER to all members to return your ballots in the post 🚨🚨
September 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We are balloting for industrial action at Oxford Brookes. 🚨🚨 REMINDER to all members to return your ballots in the post 🚨🚨
Lancaster University is proposing over 450 job cuts, with a Voluntary Redundancy scheme underway and a Compulsory Redundancy scheme likely in September. That means about 1 in 4 staff will be directly impacted. Please sign the petition to show your support: chng.it/cHDm4prxbc
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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July 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lancaster University is proposing over 450 job cuts, with a Voluntary Redundancy scheme underway and a Compulsory Redundancy scheme likely in September. That means about 1 in 4 staff will be directly impacted. Please sign the petition to show your support: chng.it/cHDm4prxbc
Don't forget to vote in the consultative ballot. The ballot closes on Friday 15th August.
📢 UCU HE members: The consultative ballot on UCEA's final offer is now OPEN:
This is your chance to have your say on pay and conditions for 2025/26.
HEC recommends:
❌ Reject the final offer
✅ Vote YES to industrial action
Ballot Closes Friday August 15th.
Vote NOW www.ucu.org.uk/HEconsultati...
This is your chance to have your say on pay and conditions for 2025/26.
HEC recommends:
❌ Reject the final offer
✅ Vote YES to industrial action
Ballot Closes Friday August 15th.
Vote NOW www.ucu.org.uk/HEconsultati...
July 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Don't forget to vote in the consultative ballot. The ballot closes on Friday 15th August.
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Want to hear from UCU’s negotiators before you vote?
Join the online member briefing:
🗓️ THIS Friday 14:00-15:30
📝 Register by Friday 11am:
Ask questions. Get the facts. VOTE.
www.ucu.org.uk/HEconsultati...
Join the online member briefing:
🗓️ THIS Friday 14:00-15:30
📝 Register by Friday 11am:
Ask questions. Get the facts. VOTE.
www.ucu.org.uk/HEconsultati...
July 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Want to hear from UCU’s negotiators before you vote?
Join the online member briefing:
🗓️ THIS Friday 14:00-15:30
📝 Register by Friday 11am:
Ask questions. Get the facts. VOTE.
www.ucu.org.uk/HEconsultati...
Join the online member briefing:
🗓️ THIS Friday 14:00-15:30
📝 Register by Friday 11am:
Ask questions. Get the facts. VOTE.
www.ucu.org.uk/HEconsultati...
We remain in dispute over planned cuts to workload tariffs. To find out more and ask any questions please come to the open meeting on Monday 16 June. ALL STAFF welcome!
June 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We remain in dispute over planned cuts to workload tariffs. To find out more and ask any questions please come to the open meeting on Monday 16 June. ALL STAFF welcome!
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March 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We have an open meeting (hybrid) on Thursday 3 April, 12pm in JHB204. Featuring updates on our concerns with workload planning, finances, research, and the Portfolio Review/Strategic Transformation. In the words of Jane Fonda 'unions bring us into community' so please bring a friend! #BeMoreLikeJane
March 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We have an open meeting (hybrid) on Thursday 3 April, 12pm in JHB204. Featuring updates on our concerns with workload planning, finances, research, and the Portfolio Review/Strategic Transformation. In the words of Jane Fonda 'unions bring us into community' so please bring a friend! #BeMoreLikeJane
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Today marks the last day of the Miners’ Strike 40 yrs ago. On Saturday in Oxford, we co-hosted an event with @strikemap.bsky.social to celebrate the huge solidarity shown in Oxford and beyond linking these struggles to the present day through culture and the arts to remember our history as workers.
March 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Today marks the last day of the Miners’ Strike 40 yrs ago. On Saturday in Oxford, we co-hosted an event with @strikemap.bsky.social to celebrate the huge solidarity shown in Oxford and beyond linking these struggles to the present day through culture and the arts to remember our history as workers.
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If you're being approached by SOAS to do marking, be aware that the SOAS tutors are on a marking boycott & you're being asked to scab mark (managers don't feel they should be transparent about it)
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March 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If you're being approached by SOAS to do marking, be aware that the SOAS tutors are on a marking boycott & you're being asked to scab mark (managers don't feel they should be transparent about it)
hardship fund: gofund.me/71598ef7&sa=...
template motion: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
hardship fund: gofund.me/71598ef7&sa=...
template motion: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Higher Education is in crisis, which if you work in HE you already knew. Up to 10,000 jobs across the sector are threatened. To our local members and wider stakeholders UCU's new campaign needs support. Step 1 is to sign the petition here: stopthecutspetition.org.uk Thanks! #StoptheCUTS
stopthecutspetition
stopthecutspetition.org.uk
March 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Higher Education is in crisis, which if you work in HE you already knew. Up to 10,000 jobs across the sector are threatened. To our local members and wider stakeholders UCU's new campaign needs support. Step 1 is to sign the petition here: stopthecutspetition.org.uk Thanks! #StoptheCUTS
Reminder to all our members at Oxford Brookes and UCU members in general. Ballots for the NEC elections need to be completed and returned in the post. The last safe posting day is tomorrow. Candidate details and a recording of the online hustings can be found here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
UCU UK elections 2024-25
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February 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Reminder to all our members at Oxford Brookes and UCU members in general. Ballots for the NEC elections need to be completed and returned in the post. The last safe posting day is tomorrow. Candidate details and a recording of the online hustings can be found here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
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@oxfordtuc.bsky.social and strikemap.bsky.social presents 'The Miners Strike in Oxford' event:
https:/www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-miners-strike-in-oxford-a-celebration-of-solidarity-tickets-1205516946639
#NUM @orgreavejustice.bsky.social #StrikeMap #SeaGreenSingers #BannerTheatre
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#NUM @orgreavejustice.bsky.social #StrikeMap #SeaGreenSingers #BannerTheatre
January 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
@oxfordtuc.bsky.social and strikemap.bsky.social presents 'The Miners Strike in Oxford' event:
https:/www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-miners-strike-in-oxford-a-celebration-of-solidarity-tickets-1205516946639
#NUM @orgreavejustice.bsky.social #StrikeMap #SeaGreenSingers #BannerTheatre
https:/www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-miners-strike-in-oxford-a-celebration-of-solidarity-tickets-1205516946639
#NUM @orgreavejustice.bsky.social #StrikeMap #SeaGreenSingers #BannerTheatre
We stand in solidarity with @ucu.org.uk members at Coventry University. Please support the petition calling for their VC to be removed from a government role. speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/remove-coven...
Remove Coventry University vice-chancellor from government role
Coventry University is facing an unprecedented jobs and debt crisis under the leadership of vice-chancellor John Latham. The institution is threatening to sack 300 staff and rehire some of them in its...
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk
February 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We stand in solidarity with @ucu.org.uk members at Coventry University. Please support the petition calling for their VC to be removed from a government role. speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/remove-coven...
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Keir Starmer must stop pandering to the hard-right on immigration.
Our statement 👇
Our statement 👇
December 3, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Keir Starmer must stop pandering to the hard-right on immigration.
Our statement 👇
Our statement 👇
Joint statement from @BrookesUCU and Brookes SU condemning University response to protest at Zuckerberg Scholarship lecture.
December 3, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Joint statement from @BrookesUCU and Brookes SU condemning University response to protest at Zuckerberg Scholarship lecture.
🚨🚨 Final URGENT reminder to our branch members to vote in the consultative ballot. DEADLINE IS 5PM TODAY 🚨🚨
Higher education members 📢 The consultative ballot closes tomorrow 🚨
Don't forget to vote ⏰ Check your emails for the ballot link ⌛️
❌ REJECT the pay element
✅ ACCEPT the terms of reference on the pay-related elements
Don't forget to vote ⏰ Check your emails for the ballot link ⌛️
❌ REJECT the pay element
✅ ACCEPT the terms of reference on the pay-related elements
December 3, 2024 at 10:42 AM
🚨🚨 Final URGENT reminder to our branch members to vote in the consultative ballot. DEADLINE IS 5PM TODAY 🚨🚨
Some members of the branch, in the Oxford Brookes Palestine Solidarity Group, have serious concerns about the Sam Zuckerberg Annual Lecture being held tomorrow evening. If you would like to know more and sign their petition then please use the following link: forms.gle/vRxd3qyXXKNM...
Letter of concern regarding the Sam Zuckerberg Israel Scholarship Annual Lecture
Dear Prof Alistair Fitt, Adrienne Hopkins, and Jane Butcher,
We write to you in your capacities as Vice-Chancellor, and EDI Director and Advisor, on behalf of staff and students from Oxford Brookes ...
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November 26, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Some members of the branch, in the Oxford Brookes Palestine Solidarity Group, have serious concerns about the Sam Zuckerberg Annual Lecture being held tomorrow evening. If you would like to know more and sign their petition then please use the following link: forms.gle/vRxd3qyXXKNM...
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Higher education members 📢 Don't forget to vote in the consultative ballot:
📨 Check your emails for the ballot link
❌ REJECT the pay element
✅ ACCEPT the terms of reference on pay-related elements
⏰ Ballot closes Tuesday 3 December at 5pm ⏰
VOTE now✊
📨 Check your emails for the ballot link
❌ REJECT the pay element
✅ ACCEPT the terms of reference on pay-related elements
⏰ Ballot closes Tuesday 3 December at 5pm ⏰
VOTE now✊
November 25, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Higher education members 📢 Don't forget to vote in the consultative ballot:
📨 Check your emails for the ballot link
❌ REJECT the pay element
✅ ACCEPT the terms of reference on pay-related elements
⏰ Ballot closes Tuesday 3 December at 5pm ⏰
VOTE now✊
📨 Check your emails for the ballot link
❌ REJECT the pay element
✅ ACCEPT the terms of reference on pay-related elements
⏰ Ballot closes Tuesday 3 December at 5pm ⏰
VOTE now✊