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🚨UPDATE🚨 Got a response from #USS in June about their public holdings with ties to the #MyanmarJunta, promising to approach companies and provide us an update on progress. We've responded urging them to do more - particularly with MOGE. 👇🏽
#SanctionMOGE #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
A letter from 272 members of the #USS pension scheme to the Board urging them to divest from #Myanmar military-linked companies and convince their investee companies to withhold funds from the junta.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 1/6
Full list of signatories 👉🏽ow.ly/GU5K50EMBnN
This great @RoyalHistSoc scheme for early career historians of colour is open again! Application deadline is 17 June. royalhistsoc.org/first-acade…
If you're a historian of colour working in the UK, whether inside or outside academia and at any career stage, then you might be interested in applying to the Joint BME Small Grant fund - covers costs of research or an event upto £1000. Deadline 5 December.
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I've tweeted cryptically of late about stuff not being good in our department at the University of Chichester, and with me in that context. So: about three weeks ago I was told out of the blue that our BA in Modern History was being axed and my post placed at risk. (1/12)
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BREAKING: more than half of academics, attending a board of examiners for one of Durham's largest departments, were compelled to walk out of the meeting, in which hundreds of students were being awarded classifications based on incompletely marked modules.
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Available now ahead of print: @Jonathan_Saha's review of the book titled Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle by Joy L. K. Pachuau and Willem van Schendel #consocsci #openaccess | rb.gy/qz1wa
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I organised with other members ahead of #UCUcongress to propose a positive programme of solidarity with Ukraine, focusing on education & humanitarian work.
Very glad this (motion 6) passed but upset motion 5 carried without @LeedsUCU amendments. We'll publish a statement tomorrow
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Many UCU members are angry that, while passing a pro-Ukraine motion, their Congress also narrowly passed a Stop the War motion calling for no arms for Ukraine.
We'll be organising push back. We also urge UCU members to support this important initiative.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ukrainia…
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Update from #UCUCongress #UCU23 : unfortunately delegates passed both the NEC motion "Solidarity with Ukraine" and, narrowly, the Stop the War-initiated one, unamended. The NEC motion passed by a large margin, despite opposition; the STW one 130-121-37
p5 ucu.org.uk/media/13804/Congr…
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Yesterday our e-consultation closed on strike days in response to punitive 50% deductions.
84% voted to back strikes.
This is avoidable if @durham_uni management remove the threat of deductions & publicly state @UCEA1 should re-enter negotiations.
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BREAKING: under pressure from our branch KCL management has reduced the limit of punitive 50% deduction from 20 to 10 days: the max deduction is now 5 days of salary. While we reserve the right to respond, this shows that collective action works! Let’s keep up the pressure! ✊🏼
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Wow! Monitoring figures for 31 March 2023 drop from @USSpensions, and show a *£7.6bn SURPLUS* and pre-cut benefits costing *just 21.8% of salary*! Expect these figures to change in the full valuation, but we're bang on track for a historic win. #ucuRISING ddlnk.net/2PRX-1DZUI-BF5710E…
ALT We have, today, published the latest quarterly monitoring report to the end of March 2023. This is, of course, the effective date of the 2023 valuation and the usual caveats about the difference between the monitoring basis and a full valuation still very much apply. However, the direction of travel is clear. Overall market conditions and investment expectations at the end of March were slightly more favourable than at the end of last year. *This is reflected in a higher potential surplus (£7.6bn) and a lower implied future service contribution rate (17.5%) in respect of the current level of benefits. The future service contribution requirement at the end of March for the pre-1 April 2022 benefit structure, on the monitoring basis, was 21.8%.*
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🚨WE DID IT!
🥳100% MAB DEDUCTIONS REVERSED AT QMU!
Senior Management have backed down & we’ve called off our strike action.
This is a huge victory for our wee branch, & a successful de-escalation of a local dispute.
✊FRIENDS & COMRADES, IT CAN BE DONE!
#ucuRISING
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Membership of our branch has grown through the MAB. We are now close to 1500 members strong.
No one takes this action lightly - either for staff or students.
But this action is making us stronger & growing our movement & our branch.
Let's keep recruiting! #ucuRISING
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The results of the 2023 pay ballot are in. We have a third mandate to take strike action.
Despite the ballot being run over Easter break and two bank holidays, members have spoken loud and clear: we want a fair pay deal and we will be resolute in pursuing it.
ALT In UNISON purple and green: University of Leeds UNISON members voted YES to strike action. 92.5 vote to strike / 55.6% turnout