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All three Trade Unions at #Lboro are balloting members over pay and recently met on campus to encourage members to vote.
#VoteYES in the #WeAreTheUniversity ballots.
@ucu.org.uk @unison.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social
#VoteYES in the #WeAreTheUniversity ballots.
@ucu.org.uk @unison.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
All three Trade Unions at #Lboro are balloting members over pay and recently met on campus to encourage members to vote.
#VoteYES in the #WeAreTheUniversity ballots.
@ucu.org.uk @unison.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social
#VoteYES in the #WeAreTheUniversity ballots.
@ucu.org.uk @unison.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social
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Have you voted in the #WeAreTheUniversity ballot yet?
If not, vote now and vote YES!
@ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk
If not, vote now and vote YES!
@ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Have you voted in the #WeAreTheUniversity ballot yet?
If not, vote now and vote YES!
@ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk
If not, vote now and vote YES!
@ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk
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Last chance to register for the #LboroUCU online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 11th November from 12 noon.
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
CPD Course: Allyship and Solidarity – Loughborough UCU
ucu.lboro.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Last chance to register for the #LboroUCU online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 11th November from 12 noon.
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
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The @ucu.org.uk "We are the University" ballots will be posted to members on Monday. Look out for a pink envelope at your registered address arriving next week. We encourage all members to vote and make their voice heard. #WeAreTheUniversity #LboroUCU
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The @ucu.org.uk "We are the University" ballots will be posted to members on Monday. Look out for a pink envelope at your registered address arriving next week. We encourage all members to vote and make their voice heard. #WeAreTheUniversity #LboroUCU
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Interested in supporting colleagues & making a real difference?
LUCU is looking for new volunteer caseworkers — full training provided!
Intro to Casework (online): Tue 18 Nov, 1–4:30pm.
Learn more 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/become-a-luc...
#LboroUCU
LUCU is looking for new volunteer caseworkers — full training provided!
Intro to Casework (online): Tue 18 Nov, 1–4:30pm.
Learn more 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/become-a-luc...
#LboroUCU
ucu.lboro.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Interested in supporting colleagues & making a real difference?
LUCU is looking for new volunteer caseworkers — full training provided!
Intro to Casework (online): Tue 18 Nov, 1–4:30pm.
Learn more 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/become-a-luc...
#LboroUCU
LUCU is looking for new volunteer caseworkers — full training provided!
Intro to Casework (online): Tue 18 Nov, 1–4:30pm.
Learn more 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/become-a-luc...
#LboroUCU
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We wondered last week whether @drjogrady.bsky.social would listen to @ucu.org.uk members, agree to unconditional talks & withdraw the threat of deductions for taking ASOS.
So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b...
So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b...
Branch update
Fifty UCU branches join calls for unconditional talks After over 50 UCU branches signed up to a statement calling on SMT and the General Secretary to meet with Unite for unconditional talks, branch…
uniteucu.wordpress.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We wondered last week whether @drjogrady.bsky.social would listen to @ucu.org.uk members, agree to unconditional talks & withdraw the threat of deductions for taking ASOS.
So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b...
So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b...
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💜 Loughborough UCU Get Together!
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 🕐 1–2pm
📍 UCU Office – 3 Holywell Dr
☕ Tea, coffee & biscuits on us!
Join fellow members to reconnect, meet your new committee & start the year with good conversation and friendly faces.
#LboroUCU #UnionTogether
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 🕐 1–2pm
📍 UCU Office – 3 Holywell Dr
☕ Tea, coffee & biscuits on us!
Join fellow members to reconnect, meet your new committee & start the year with good conversation and friendly faces.
#LboroUCU #UnionTogether
October 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
💜 Loughborough UCU Get Together!
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 🕐 1–2pm
📍 UCU Office – 3 Holywell Dr
☕ Tea, coffee & biscuits on us!
Join fellow members to reconnect, meet your new committee & start the year with good conversation and friendly faces.
#LboroUCU #UnionTogether
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 🕐 1–2pm
📍 UCU Office – 3 Holywell Dr
☕ Tea, coffee & biscuits on us!
Join fellow members to reconnect, meet your new committee & start the year with good conversation and friendly faces.
#LboroUCU #UnionTogether
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🚨 Want to level up your organising skills? 🚨
Join Power Up!, free for UCU members this Nov–Dec. Build campaigns that win + connect with organisers worldwide 🌍✊
📅 Sessions: 18, 20 Nov & 2, 4 Dec (5–7pm)
⏰ Register by 25 Oct → ucu@lboro.ac.uk
More info 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/power-up-new...
Join Power Up!, free for UCU members this Nov–Dec. Build campaigns that win + connect with organisers worldwide 🌍✊
📅 Sessions: 18, 20 Nov & 2, 4 Dec (5–7pm)
⏰ Register by 25 Oct → ucu@lboro.ac.uk
More info 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/power-up-new...
Power Up! – New Organising Course for UCU Members – Loughborough UCU
ucu.lboro.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🚨 Want to level up your organising skills? 🚨
Join Power Up!, free for UCU members this Nov–Dec. Build campaigns that win + connect with organisers worldwide 🌍✊
📅 Sessions: 18, 20 Nov & 2, 4 Dec (5–7pm)
⏰ Register by 25 Oct → ucu@lboro.ac.uk
More info 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/power-up-new...
Join Power Up!, free for UCU members this Nov–Dec. Build campaigns that win + connect with organisers worldwide 🌍✊
📅 Sessions: 18, 20 Nov & 2, 4 Dec (5–7pm)
⏰ Register by 25 Oct → ucu@lboro.ac.uk
More info 👉 ucu.lboro.ac.uk/power-up-new...
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Members, we've announced our calendar of all member meetings for 2025-26. These meetings are vital opportunities to shape the direction of our branch and to stay engaged with the work of your union. We hope you’ll make a note of the dates and join us when you can. All the info is on our website.
Upcoming General Meetings & AGM (2025–26) – Loughborough UCU
ucu.lboro.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Members, we've announced our calendar of all member meetings for 2025-26. These meetings are vital opportunities to shape the direction of our branch and to stay engaged with the work of your union. We hope you’ll make a note of the dates and join us when you can. All the info is on our website.
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Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics?
It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU
It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage
Not in our name.
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU
It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage
Not in our name.
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how.
How would you react?
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
How would you react?
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
September 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics?
It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU
It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage
Not in our name.
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU
It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage
Not in our name.
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
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Improve your working conditions - join a union today!
Info on joining #LboroUCU and #UCU in general: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
Work in another sector? Find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#JoinAUnion
Info on joining #LboroUCU and #UCU in general: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
Work in another sector? Find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#JoinAUnion
September 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Improve your working conditions - join a union today!
Info on joining #LboroUCU and #UCU in general: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
Work in another sector? Find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#JoinAUnion
Info on joining #LboroUCU and #UCU in general: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
Work in another sector? Find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#JoinAUnion
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Another 12 more UCU branches have signed (so far) today!
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.
September 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Another 12 more UCU branches have signed (so far) today!
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.
Highlights of the #YourParty #Chesterfield & North #Derbyshire get together, held on Wednesday evening, are now on YouTube: youtu.be/-Vf-U4T5t7I
'A party that belongs to us'
YouTube video by The Crispin Flintoff Show
youtu.be
September 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Highlights of the #YourParty #Chesterfield & North #Derbyshire get together, held on Wednesday evening, are now on YouTube: youtu.be/-Vf-U4T5t7I
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#LboroUCU response to the far-right demonstration in London this weekend, and the nationwide St George’s and Union flag display campaign: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-opposes...
LUCU Opposes the Far Right – Loughborough UCU
ucu.lboro.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#LboroUCU response to the far-right demonstration in London this weekend, and the nationwide St George’s and Union flag display campaign: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-opposes...
What a great first #YourParty get together in #Chesterfield. A truly inspiring meeting filled with hope for a better future. Over 130 like minded people in the room and on zoom. Onwards and upwards!
September 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
What a great first #YourParty get together in #Chesterfield. A truly inspiring meeting filled with hope for a better future. Over 130 like minded people in the room and on zoom. Onwards and upwards!
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The results of the LUCU Staff Survey, held earlier this year, have now been published on our branch website. You can see them, and a brief report, here: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/report-from-...
#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #StaffSurvey
#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #StaffSurvey
September 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The results of the LUCU Staff Survey, held earlier this year, have now been published on our branch website. You can see them, and a brief report, here: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/report-from-...
#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #StaffSurvey
#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #StaffSurvey
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🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
September 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
Been out this evening at #Chesterfield Train Station leafleting for the #YourParty Chesterfield & North #Derbyshire Get Together next week with some good comrades. Details and more: linktr.ee/yourpartyche...
September 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Been out this evening at #Chesterfield Train Station leafleting for the #YourParty Chesterfield & North #Derbyshire Get Together next week with some good comrades. Details and more: linktr.ee/yourpartyche...
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We are very pleased to announce that we have a new Department Rep in the School of Social Sciences & Humanities. Meet our very first UCU Rep for the new Loughborough Law Department in this article: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/a-new-rep-fo...
#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #LboroLaw
#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #LboroLaw
A New Rep for a New Department – Loughborough UCU
ucu.lboro.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We are very pleased to announce that we have a new Department Rep in the School of Social Sciences & Humanities. Meet our very first UCU Rep for the new Loughborough Law Department in this article: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/a-new-rep-fo...
#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #LboroLaw
#LboroUCU #LboroFamily #LboroLaw
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A reminder that you can still sign up for our Allyship & Solidarity CPD session, details on the post below.
#LboroUCU has organised an online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 23rd September from 12 noon.
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
August 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A reminder that you can still sign up for our Allyship & Solidarity CPD session, details on the post below.
Reposted by Callum Salfield
Sometimes a barrier is a good thing!
Join #LboroUCU today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
Or if you work in another sector, you can find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#JoinAUnion
Join #LboroUCU today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
Or if you work in another sector, you can find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#JoinAUnion
August 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Sometimes a barrier is a good thing!
Join #LboroUCU today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
Or if you work in another sector, you can find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#JoinAUnion
Join #LboroUCU today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
Or if you work in another sector, you can find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion
#JoinAUnion
Reposted by Callum Salfield
#LboroUCU has organised an online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 23rd September from 12 noon.
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
August 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#LboroUCU has organised an online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 23rd September from 12 noon.
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...
Reposted by Callum Salfield
Find out what happened at our #LboroUCU AGM and who's in each role on the LUCU Committee for 2025-26: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-agm-202...
LUCU AGM 2025 and Your New Committee – Loughborough UCU
ucu.lboro.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Find out what happened at our #LboroUCU AGM and who's in each role on the LUCU Committee for 2025-26: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-agm-202...
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😡 Targeting our reps
😡 Refusing to talk
😡 Imposing an office return with no equality assessment or hybrid agreement
😡 Breaching agreed procedures
😡 Unsafe levels of work-related stress
Just 5 reasons our ballot opens today for a Safe & Professional Workplace.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...
😡 Refusing to talk
😡 Imposing an office return with no equality assessment or hybrid agreement
😡 Breaching agreed procedures
😡 Unsafe levels of work-related stress
Just 5 reasons our ballot opens today for a Safe & Professional Workplace.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...
Ballot opens today
Vote early, vote YES and YES The ballot over our Campaign for a Safe and Professional Workplace Culture opens today. Defend your contracts! Defend your reps! Stand up for Equality! Stand up for tra…
uniteucu.wordpress.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
😡 Targeting our reps
😡 Refusing to talk
😡 Imposing an office return with no equality assessment or hybrid agreement
😡 Breaching agreed procedures
😡 Unsafe levels of work-related stress
Just 5 reasons our ballot opens today for a Safe & Professional Workplace.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...
😡 Refusing to talk
😡 Imposing an office return with no equality assessment or hybrid agreement
😡 Breaching agreed procedures
😡 Unsafe levels of work-related stress
Just 5 reasons our ballot opens today for a Safe & Professional Workplace.
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...
Reposted by Callum Salfield
Please sign and share the @tuc.org.uk petition to Members of the House of Lords demanding they pass the Employment Rights Bill in full.
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...
Pass the Employment Rights Bill – in full, without delay
The biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation is within reach. But Tory peers and big business want to water it down. Add your name now to demand the House of Lords passes the Employment Righ...
www.megaphone.org.uk
July 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Please sign and share the @tuc.org.uk petition to Members of the House of Lords demanding they pass the Employment Rights Bill in full.
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...