@stephmulrine
Academic activist in UK. Sociologist using qualitative methods to research care, health inequalities, socially-produced vulnerabilities, social class, and death and bereavement. Trustee of Thrive Teesside. (she/her)
“we are profoundly disappointed that the University is not taking redundancies off the table. […] and we passed a motion to continue hard hitting industrial action if they do not make us an offer” www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Solidarity from Newcastle UCU! ✊🏻
'Overdiganosis' sound scientific while 'too expensive' sounds ideological.
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Join us!
Seeing this Labour government determined to slash essential benefits for the disabled community and be determined to justify it, is precisely why I think we need to heed the concerns of the disabled community around the assisted dying bill.
Continually framing people as a "burden" is dangerous.
Amazing turnout to our pickets today - over 400 people out to stop the cuts.
Trying to open a new campus while cutting jobs. Not a good look.
Our members should not lose their livelihoods because of management can't handle the finances.
14 days of strike action started today at @newcastleucu.bsky.social 👇
With hundreds of jobs at risk we must #STOPtheCUTS.
14 days of strike action at @newcastleucu.bsky.social battling devastating job cuts.
Picket lines will send a clear message 💪
Our members will not pay the price for managers financial mismanagement.
Tuesday will see the first of 14 days of strikes for Newcastle University staff, as the institution seeks to cuts £20m from its wage bill
300 jobs at risk at Newcastle University 🚨
Our members should not pay the price for vice-chancellors' inability to manage finances.
@newcastleucu.bsky.social say enough is enough.
The crisis in Higher Education is biting hard. Thousands are at risk of losing their jobs across the sector. Please sign and share this open letter calling on the Secretary of State for Education to act.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Sign our Open Letter to Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, and Sunderland MP
Chaos & heartbreak. The HE funding model is broken beyond repair. Solidarity with all the individual UCU branches who are fighting heroically to defend the sector. The leverage to push Labour on from the rotten ideology causing cuts - now & still coming - demands full union mobilisation.
FOUR. HUNDRED.
Despite their most recently published financial statements showing that they have “a strong balance sheet” attributed that to the commitment of their staff - their “most important and valued asset”
University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs www.bbc.com/news/article...
Durham UCUs statement on the cuts announced today.
durhamucu.org.uk/durham-ucu-s...
"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found".
This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.
Without trade unions we wouldn’t have
• a minimum wage
• maternity & paternity rights
• pension provision
• holiday & sickness entitlements
victories which have benefited every single person in this country
Ignore the Victorian pencil, Join a union TODAY
youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...
Assuming everyone listed was at the bottom of the associated bracket, that's an increase of almost sixteen million pounds being paid to those at the very top. That's half of Newcastle's budgetary black hole right there. They could save at least five mil capping salaries at a "mere" hundred grand.
"As academic staff send off their ballots on strike action, the University has announced the need for £30m extra savings for 2025/26"
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Solidarity with colleagues at Newcastle University, who just announces 300 FTE redundancies.
Newcastle University announcing 300 FTE redundancies. Come to the EGM Wed 1pm, and as we saw this coming, our ballot opened Monday - vote as soon as it arrives (by post). We will be fighting this, and join forces with the other two campus unions UNITE and UNISON
www.ucu.org.uk/article/13809
University management now needs to negotiate a resolution to the dispute that does not put staff in the firing line so we can avoid industrial action.' 4/4
Management refuses to rule out compulsory redundancies, nor will it share its plans for the next stage of cuts, which come after the second voluntary severance package in a year. We want to open the books and independently assess the university's financial situation. 3/4
Newcastle University UCU branch chair Matt Perry said: 'Our members refuse to pay the price for management's unrealistic projections, bloated salaries, and misspending on buildings; we will be voting for industrial action because the cuts profoundly damage us, our students, and our research. 2/4
Strike ballot to open at Newcastle University over the impact of £35m cuts
1/4
www.ucu.org.uk/article/13809
Back to work for me today. Trying to ease back in with admin and planning tasks without inducing overwhelm. A fine balance it would seem.
Vital project!
Are there any on the #UKHE that specifically targeted languages which we haven't indicated? We tried to mention when there were specific departments that were wiped out, but sometimes that happened in a third step and we hadn't seen it. So do give us the update if you know of others
Vinted is down! Argh! 😱
