This followed a vigil opposite Downing Street on 27 August where members of @nujofficial.bsky.social delivered a letter demanding government action to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2509vigil...

The panels were organised by Penelope Quinton - chair of NUJ’s London Freelance branch and KCL UCU member @rosesrebellion.bsky.social @nujofficial.bsky.social

The event marked the UN day to end impunity for crimes against journalists. We heard from Ali Rocha of Brazil Matters, Professor Neve Gordon, broadcaster Sangita Myska, solicitor Tayeb Ali, John McDonnell MP and Dr Moosa Qureshi of Health Workers 4 Palestine. Press ⬇️

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🚨🚨Vote YES in our local ballot to send a clear message to KCL management that this will not stand. Sign the petition ⬇️ to call for Usama’s reinstatement. In solidarity with Usama Ghanem and Free Palestine #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL

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Our formal dispute is also focused on what students like Usama have been protesting for and what a clear majority of KCL students want: KCL divestment from companies implicated in violations of human rights and international law. See more ⬇️

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Our union branch is currently in formal dispute with management and is balloting its members over the university’s failures to protect staff who have been subject to harassment and threats for their solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 ✊⬇️

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One of these students - second year Usama Ghanem - is fighting an indefinite suspension and cancellation of his visa for taking part in peaceful pro-Palestine protests on campus. If forced to return to Egypt he will face imprisonment and torture. full story here ⬇️

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Full details of background of dispute, demands and negotiations here: kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/10/21/k...

We need our members to come together and make this successful. Join the conversation and help us #GetTheVoteOut. We have our general meeting today at 2pm and a GTVO volunteers meeting at 11 on Friday. Come along or email ucu[at]kcl.ac.uk to get involved! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼✊

A strong YES vote in this historic ballot would give our branch negotiators huge leverage with management to make progress on these demands. VOTE YES IN BOTH THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL BALLOTS!

4. We are demanding a pause in the implementation of ‘King’s Strategy 2030’ so full consultation can take place. We demand commitment to no compulsory redundancies as a result of this strategy, and a commitment in the strategy for improvements in staff terms and conditions

3. Failures to protect staff and institutional complicity in war crimes are result of the democratic deficit in KCL’s governance. We are returning to the demand of our unresolved 2023 local dispute that KCL Council must have at least 50% of its members as elected staff

2. We demand reopening of negotiations on KCL divestment from companies enabling oppression in Palestine and a clause in contracts to allow employees to conscientiously object to participation in activity connected with the military, arms trade, fossil fuels or genocide

1. We demand public statement reaffirming KCL commitment to academic freedom, anti-racism, and the protection of its community from intimidation, harassment+discrimination. We need independent investigation into mishandling of politically motivated complaints against our members

We are balloting on FOUR interlinked issues that all come down to management intransigence and increasing hostility to consultation. We're revisiting our previous disputes in light of two major developments: the genocide in Palestine and the national crisis in higher education

This dispute has been guided by our membership and brings together different trade disputes going back to 2023 - related to academic freedom, divestment, governance and working conditions - under ONE action.

KCL UCU’s ballot is running at the same time as the @ucu.org.uk national dispute on pay and jobs. It speaks to problems at KCL where working conditions are connected to a democratic deficit in governance and the institution’s untenable ‘values-based impartiality’ stance on genocide

With our local dispute, we are the first university (and the first workplace!?) in the UK to formally ballot members over possible industrial action that relates to our employer’s response to global injustice and the oppression of the Palestinian people