#ImperialCollege #ucu #ucuRISING #Solidarity #HigherEd #AcademicStaff #PTOworkers #StrikeAction #ImperialStudents

💬 We remain committed to negotiations.
The College can end all strike action immediately by returning to the table with a meaningful offer that reverses the real-terms cuts staff have endured.

Until then, pickets remain in place.
See you 8:30–10:30 at South Ken & White City.
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🔹 Compensation portal: ucu.imperial.ac.uk/%E2%80%A6

🔹 Student explainer: ucu.imperial.ac.uk/%E2%80%A6

(We encourage all students to read the explainer first.)

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📣 For students seeking guidance:
If your teaching has been affected, you can use the compensation request tool many students have already started using:

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🎓 Students are firmly on our side.

The Imperial College Union Council voted nem con to support the strike.

We’re hugely grateful to them — this is what solidarity looks like.

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The Times Higher has picked up the story — both our strike action and the deepening governance scandal.

🔗 THE coverage:
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/imperia...

(paywalled; summary provided in our link above)

When a dispute reaches the sector press like this, you know it’s serious.

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📌 To catch up: the unions uncovered evidence that the College misrepresented the findings of its own 2018–21 salary review, burying recommendations that would have raised benchmarks — then presenting rewritten “conclusions” to staff.

👉 ucu.imperial.ac.uk/files/2025/1...

This is… not normal.

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Imperial College management must act urgently.
Staff deserve transparency, accountability, and pay that reflects their contribution to the institution’s success.

Further industrial action next week can still be avoided—if management returns to the table.

#ImperialCollege #FairPayNow #ucu

This raises serious questions about governance, integrity, and accountability.

The Joint Trade Unions have now formally requested:

• an independent external investigation, and

• an immediate return to negotiations with a fair and improved offer.

Those recommendations would have ensured Imperial’s pay remained competitive with comparable institutions.
Instead, management adopted weaker principles that lower benchmarks and reduce salaries in real terms, without transparency or staff consent.

Thank you for the support -- we hope to see you join the strike action soon!

This action is about ensuring that everyone who makes Imperial work is respected and fairly paid.
That’s in the interest of staff, students, and the future of the College alike. ✊

#ImperialStrike #FairPayForAll #ucu

If you’d like to help:

Write to the Provost or your Head of Department urging Imperial to reopen pay negotiations.

Join a union: imperial.ac.uk/staff/joint-trade-unions
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(PhD students can join UCU for free.)

Share this post and help spread the word.

If you’re on or around campus, join us for a 15-minute march at 11 am (today and tomorrow), starting from the Exhibition Road entrance. Everyone is welcome — non-striking staff, students, families, children, pets — anyone who believes in fair pay.