KCL UCU
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Official account of King's College London University and College Union. The purpose of a union is to empower members with voice + votes at work. Our values are democracy, equality, inclusion, fairness and justice.
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
On November 2 we co-hosted a panel on freedom of expression on Palestine together with the National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social to protest over 270 Gazan journalist colleagues who have been slaughtered ⬇️
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On November 2 we co-hosted a panel on freedom of expression on Palestine together with the National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social to protest over 270 Gazan journalist colleagues who have been slaughtered ⬇️
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Sent off both my national and local UCU ballots today! Historical moment for our local ballot as we’re the first union branch to potentially organise industrial action over the repression of Palestine solidarity as a workplace issue.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sent off both my national and local UCU ballots today! Historical moment for our local ballot as we’re the first union branch to potentially organise industrial action over the repression of Palestine solidarity as a workplace issue.
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🗳️🗳️🗳️ hi comrades! A reminder to vote soon and #voteyes in BOTH the national @ucu.org.uk AND the local KCL UCU ballot! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🗳️🗳️🗳️ hi comrades! A reminder to vote soon and #voteyes in BOTH the national @ucu.org.uk AND the local KCL UCU ballot! #wearetheuniversity #wearekcl
❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza
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October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
🗣️🗣️ calling all anti fascist educators and union members: TOMORROW 8 October at 8pm join the London Regional UCU online organising meeting about ‘Education. Immigration, and Racism’ it’s time to stand up to far right extremism and fascism in Britain 🗣️🗣️ ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Education, Immigration and Racism - Unite Against the Far Right. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Speakers:
* Jo Grady, General Secretary UCU
* Maria Chondrogianni, President UCU
* Kevin Courtney, Stand Up to Racism
* Charlotte Khan, Care for Calais
* Samira Ali, Women against the Far Right
6.3...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🗣️🗣️ calling all anti fascist educators and union members: TOMORROW 8 October at 8pm join the London Regional UCU online organising meeting about ‘Education. Immigration, and Racism’ it’s time to stand up to far right extremism and fascism in Britain 🗣️🗣️ ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We've written to KCL Management urging them to urgently lobby UK Government to enable safe passage for Chevening Scholarship students from Gaza to the UK. Considering the level of institutional complicity that KCL has with the genocide, it's really the LEAST they can do. See our statement below.👇
August 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We've written to KCL Management urging them to urgently lobby UK Government to enable safe passage for Chevening Scholarship students from Gaza to the UK. Considering the level of institutional complicity that KCL has with the genocide, it's really the LEAST they can do. See our statement below.👇
An open letter to KCL management, condemning punitive misconduct disciplinaries against Palestine Encampment students, is currently circulating with 250+ signatories. We copy the text of the letter ⬇️
July 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
An open letter to KCL management, condemning punitive misconduct disciplinaries against Palestine Encampment students, is currently circulating with 250+ signatories. We copy the text of the letter ⬇️
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Not surprising to me that King’s College London is in this shameful league table @kclucu.bsky.social
'The Social Innovators for Justice has released the UK University Repression League Table, ranking universities according to their attacks on students, with suspensions, monitoring and investment in genocide' A worthy initiative. @anilsghost.bsky.social
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Announcing: The UK University Repression League Table 2025
For the last two years, UK universities have attacked students for advocacy for Palestine, including censorship, restrictive speech policies, and the suppression of dissenting voices. These disgusting...
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July 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Not surprising to me that King’s College London is in this shameful league table @kclucu.bsky.social
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@kclucu.bsky.social thanks to vice chair Pete Chonka for speaking @nujlfb.bsky.social www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2507parli...
'When the only journalists are being slaughtered...' | The Freelance
...how to report a genocide? Our meeting in Parliament
www.londonfreelance.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@kclucu.bsky.social thanks to vice chair Pete Chonka for speaking @nujlfb.bsky.social www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2507parli...
Results are now in on our consultative e-ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding ➡️ we PASSED the threshold for a valid result with 🌟91% 🌟sharing our concern that management is not doing enough to protect us and our rights kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...
Consultative ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding at KCL
VOTE to show management that you’ll take a stand for academic freedom and the safety of colleagues at KCL!
What is this dispute about? What are the demands?
In March, KCL UCU formally notified manage...
kcl.web.ucu.org.uk
July 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Results are now in on our consultative e-ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding ➡️ we PASSED the threshold for a valid result with 🌟91% 🌟sharing our concern that management is not doing enough to protect us and our rights kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...
This may not be about you, but it is happening to the people around you. Are you comfortable with that? Please vote in the KCL UCU e-ballot on academic freedom and safeguarding
Politically-motivated intimidation - designed to silence us - has overwhelmingly targeted women and non-binary people, BAME and junior colleagues + branch union activists. This is a racist and misogynistic campaign threatening the personal and job security of often precariously employed colleagues
June 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This may not be about you, but it is happening to the people around you. Are you comfortable with that? Please vote in the KCL UCU e-ballot on academic freedom and safeguarding
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Our new findings would be of particular interest to @sussexucu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social and @cardiffucu.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Our new findings would be of particular interest to @sussexucu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social and @cardiffucu.bsky.social
Great analysis from @parkesland.bsky.social on the connection between attacks on Palestine solidarity and attacks on trans rights. Relevant to our wider mobilising as a union and our current dispute about academic freedom and safeguarding at KCL UCU
The Starmer regime decided, on the same day, to proscribe Palestine Action and to impose trans segregation on the Parliamentary estate.
These are not unrelated events.
These are not unrelated events.
June 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Great analysis from @parkesland.bsky.social on the connection between attacks on Palestine solidarity and attacks on trans rights. Relevant to our wider mobilising as a union and our current dispute about academic freedom and safeguarding at KCL UCU
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The Starmer regime decided, on the same day, to proscribe Palestine Action and to impose trans segregation on the Parliamentary estate.
These are not unrelated events.
These are not unrelated events.
June 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The Starmer regime decided, on the same day, to proscribe Palestine Action and to impose trans segregation on the Parliamentary estate.
These are not unrelated events.
These are not unrelated events.
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Trouble at King's College London ⤵️
Join a union. Stand together.
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We are in formal dispute with KCL because the institution has failed in its duty of care. Investigations into events have been delayed and onerous. In some cases, investigations have targeted our members causing severe distress, including those with direct family experience of the genocide in Gaza
June 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trouble at King's College London ⤵️
Join a union. Stand together.
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Join a union. Stand together.
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Over the last year, your colleagues, comrades and friends at KCL have been harassed for defending Palestinian rights, upholding academic freedom and union activism. THIS is why we are balloting members NOW. But what exactly has been happening?
June 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Over the last year, your colleagues, comrades and friends at KCL have been harassed for defending Palestinian rights, upholding academic freedom and union activism. THIS is why we are balloting members NOW. But what exactly has been happening?
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Solidarity with colleagues at KCL! kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...
June 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Solidarity with colleagues at KCL! kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/c...
📣📣 the e-ballot for KCL UCU’s dispute on academic freedom and staff safeguarding is now open 📣📣 members: you will receive an email from yoursay with the link. Please use your vote! @ucu.org.uk #academicfreedom
June 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
📣📣 the e-ballot for KCL UCU’s dispute on academic freedom and staff safeguarding is now open 📣📣 members: you will receive an email from yoursay with the link. Please use your vote! @ucu.org.uk #academicfreedom
🇵🇸🗣️TOMORROW 17 June there will be protests at 3 sites supplying Israel’s F-35 fighter jets. Our branch supports the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Please join in Havant, Rochester and Sheffield if you can. Logistic and transport info ➡️ palestinecampaign.org/events/prote... #armsembargo
palestinecampaign.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🇵🇸🗣️TOMORROW 17 June there will be protests at 3 sites supplying Israel’s F-35 fighter jets. Our branch supports the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Please join in Havant, Rochester and Sheffield if you can. Logistic and transport info ➡️ palestinecampaign.org/events/prote... #armsembargo
We have been developing a new KCL UCU website, independent of the KCL Union pages, hosted by the national union. This is still in development, with more pages on our campaigns, resources and news coming soon. Take a 👀 and let us know what to include ➡️
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kcl.web.ucu.org.uk
June 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We have been developing a new KCL UCU website, independent of the KCL Union pages, hosted by the national union. This is still in development, with more pages on our campaigns, resources and news coming soon. Take a 👀 and let us know what to include ➡️
📢📢📢Last week at our General Meeting KCL UCU voted to hold an online consultative ballot over management’s failure to protect academic freedom and safeguard staff from targeted harassment
⭐️The indicative ballot will open week beginning June 16⭐️
@UCU #academicfreedom
⭐️The indicative ballot will open week beginning June 16⭐️
@UCU #academicfreedom
June 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📢📢📢Last week at our General Meeting KCL UCU voted to hold an online consultative ballot over management’s failure to protect academic freedom and safeguard staff from targeted harassment
⭐️The indicative ballot will open week beginning June 16⭐️
@UCU #academicfreedom
⭐️The indicative ballot will open week beginning June 16⭐️
@UCU #academicfreedom
🗣️As of this week we have voted to open a trade dispute with the government’s Secretary of State for education over the higher education funding model. There is an organising meeting on Tuesday 3 June, 6-7pm. Register below ⬇️
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May 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🗣️As of this week we have voted to open a trade dispute with the government’s Secretary of State for education over the higher education funding model. There is an organising meeting on Tuesday 3 June, 6-7pm. Register below ⬇️
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Read more about the UCU’s new trade dispute with the Secretary of State for education over the crisis cause by the UK higher education funding model ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Trade Dispute with Secretary of State for Education over Funding - Here we go! At UCU Congress 2025 delegates voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the higher education f...
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May 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Read more about the UCU’s new trade dispute with the Secretary of State for education over the crisis cause by the UK higher education funding model ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
🇵🇸 ✊ Yesterday at our KCL UCU General Meeting members voted in favour of 2️⃣ motions calling for ⭐️ a consultative ballot on possible industrial action to protect academic freedom; and ⭐️reaffirming our commitment to campaigning for KCL to divest from genocide. Full wording ⬇️
May 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🇵🇸 ✊ Yesterday at our KCL UCU General Meeting members voted in favour of 2️⃣ motions calling for ⭐️ a consultative ballot on possible industrial action to protect academic freedom; and ⭐️reaffirming our commitment to campaigning for KCL to divest from genocide. Full wording ⬇️