Birmingham UCU
@birminghamucu.bsky.social
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Reason 1⃣:
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Ten Reasons to Vote Yes in the @ucu.org.uk ballot
1⃣ 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀
A YES vote strengthens the hand of your elected negotiators and your union in the face of a set of employers making massive cuts in pay and jobs.
1⃣ 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀
A YES vote strengthens the hand of your elected negotiators and your union in the face of a set of employers making massive cuts in pay and jobs.
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Reason 1⃣:
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Eight More Reasons to Vote Yes:
ucusolidaritymovement.org/2025/10/25/h...
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HE Ballot 2025
UCU began a formal industrial action ballot of members across the UK on Monday 20 October for 6 weeks. UCU is calling for: a pay uplift that is at least RPI + 3.5% or £2,500, whichever is the high…
ucusolidaritymovement.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Eight More Reasons to Vote Yes:
ucusolidaritymovement.org/2025/10/25/h...
ucusolidaritymovement.org/2025/10/25/h...
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If you don’t vote, or vote NO, you are voting for the status quo, i.e. ever-decreasing real-terms pay and working conditions, together with ever-increasing casualisation, insecurity, redundancies, and growing workloads for those who remain in employment.
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If you don’t vote, or vote NO, you are voting for the status quo, i.e. ever-decreasing real-terms pay and working conditions, together with ever-increasing casualisation, insecurity, redundancies, and growing workloads for those who remain in employment.
Reposted by Birmingham UCU
Nine More Reasons to Vote Yes:
ucusolidaritymovement.org/2025/10/25/h...
ucusolidaritymovement.org/2025/10/25/h...
HE Ballot 2025
UCU began a formal industrial action ballot of members across the UK on Monday 20 October for 6 weeks. UCU is calling for: a pay uplift that is at least RPI + 3.5% or £2,500, whichever is the high…
ucusolidaritymovement.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Nine More Reasons to Vote Yes:
ucusolidaritymovement.org/2025/10/25/h...
ucusolidaritymovement.org/2025/10/25/h...
Yep, we’re there now. Might be because we’re ‘latecomers’ 😉
April 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yep, we’re there now. Might be because we’re ‘latecomers’ 😉
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Shout out to @birminghamucu.bsky.social for leading the way for reporting their employer to HSE, we've followed their example at UoN birminghamucu.org/2024/12/18/h...
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Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has now informed us that they are to launch an official inspection into the management of stress at the University of Birmingham. This follows a UCU complaint …
birminghamucu.org
April 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Shout out to @birminghamucu.bsky.social for leading the way for reporting their employer to HSE, we've followed their example at UoN birminghamucu.org/2024/12/18/h...
uonucu.org/ucu-has-repo...
uonucu.org/ucu-has-repo...