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The work of our @unisontheunion branch 🎉 Since 2022 @QMUL has returned nearly *1 million* of miscalculated wages to workers after we identified the errors. Female staff were mostly affected by these pay inequities. We continue full force with @qm_ucu whatdotheyknow.com/request/backpa…

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Apr 23

Fee income targets proved overinflated, building projects sunk, and now Universities are hoping to fundraise via philanthropists, benefactors & alumni. If you do care about the welfare of others, before you donate, do check how your chosen #UKHE charity is treating their staff.

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Jun 28

Over-resourcing top structures to transform @QMUL by under-resourcing front-line services and teaching ? It won't work. The operational integrity of the place depends on the jobs you're cutting while preserving executive pay and governance structures that don't see the risks.

QQueen Mary UCU@qm_ucu · Jun 27

ah, ~efficiency~: creating new £80,000pa roles just to deal with all the changes you're pushing through and colleagues you're making redundant... jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO758/ass… cc @QM_UNISON

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Jun 25

Oh @NousGroup has also arrived @QMUL @qm_ucu External consultants and global blueprints won't possibly capture the depth of the organisation, the radiance of the local context, the distinct strengths. Unrecoverable. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education…

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Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu · Jun 24

It's not as if they were started before the pandemic and all that threw spanners in the wheels. The risks were very predictable and could have been costed accordingly. Look! we could have had some shade & possible ventilation in these temperatures... prsarchitects.com/projects/curre…

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Jun 24

"Growing costs" for SBM and Queens Phase 2? If you can't get the "little" costings right, what do you expect to happen with 80,000sq m? @QMUL qmul.ac.uk/governance-and…

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Jun 24

£77 million and millions to maintain these plots of land and dilapidated buildings as we wait for investors to be interested in a £750 million project with a university executive that can’t fill middle management posts or see through the restoration of patrimony on another campus

QQueen Mary UCU@qm_ucu · Jun 21

A couple of million more or less than £77 million. For 80,000sq m. While making colleagues in IT redundant to get cheap labour in Serbia; while bullying humanities academics into early retirement; while calling human support for students too expensive ft.com/content/33eca8…

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Jun 22

We read @FT that @QMUL hopes to redevelop the land with external partners (estimated cost £750m). In order to attract funding one needs organisational stability and good reputation. Following all these cuts happening now staff are actually concerned we're facing ➡️implosion⬅️

QQueen Mary UCU@qm_ucu · Jun 21

A couple of million more or less than £77 million. For 80,000sq m. While making colleagues in IT redundant to get cheap labour in Serbia; while bullying humanities academics into early retirement; while calling human support for students too expensive ft.com/content/33eca8…

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Jun 20

Multimillion land no longer wanted by NHS & DHSC? @QMUL will buy it! And we were just talking about healthy surpluses and unnecessary cuts that erode workforce morale and weaken the organisation's backbone. This isn’t strategy, it’s contradiction @qm_ucu qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202…

QQMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Jun 19

Our thoughts about the cuts @QMUL There's a healthy surplus. Speedy restructures, regression to outsourcing, school mergers, cutting workers, overthrowing robust processes to chase tech hype...all undermine what the university is meant to protect: its own stability & future.

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Jun 19

Our thoughts about the cuts @QMUL There's a healthy surplus. Speedy restructures, regression to outsourcing, school mergers, cutting workers, overthrowing robust processes to chase tech hype...all undermine what the university is meant to protect: its own stability & future.

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IWGB Universities of London@IWGBUoL · May 15

✊ They have also set up a strike fund to help support them through their struggle. You can donate to that fund below: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/ci…

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IWGB Universities of London@IWGBUoL · May 15

📢 CITY CLEANERS STRIKE: ROUND 2! Outsourced cleaning staff at City University have just announced they will STRIKE AGAIN, from 22nd to 24th May. Join them at their strike rally on Thurs 23rd May at 12pm, outside City University (Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB)!

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UNISON - UK's largest union@unisontheunion · May 17

UNISON general secretary @cmcanea spoke at the rally today in London commemorating 77 years of Nakba, calling for recognition of the state of Palestine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Christina met up with Palestinian ambassador @hzomlot at the march.

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign@PSCupdates · May 14

Join us on Saturday as we take to the streets with all our grief and outrage, demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel.

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UNISON - UK's largest union@unisontheunion · May 14

Tomorrow UNISON branches will be supporting the TUC-endorsed workplace day of action for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. unsn.uk/458YOT7

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UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge@UnisNotBorders · May 12

Please share this 🧵 @USSbriefs @antiraidssheff @AntiRaidHackney @AntiRaids @BirminghamUCU @QM_UNISON @qm_ucu @KCL_UCU @Gold4Palestine @eu_jps @EEforpalestine

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · May 12

The story across UK Universities 👇🏽 Cuts to frontline student-facing roles and increases to top heavy corporate levels to "manage" the decline. The senior management class extracting as much wealth out of a collapsing sector as possible before there is nothing left...😡

QQMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Nov 27

In a year full of "voluntary severance, flexing existing resources, need for leaner structures and closing the nursery for £200K deficit"...🥁 💰The "above £100K" roles have increased @QMUL 💰 New 23/24 financial statement out now @qm_ucu finance.qmul.ac.uk/statements/

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · May 10

Build futures for all, not fortunes for Principals & VCs #UKHE @QMUL has been consulting on potential redundancies, so far proposals affect 59 workers In addition, Voluntary Severance just closed(numbers TBC) #FreeEducation #FundOurFuture #SaveUniversities #DefundVCs #DefendJobs

QQMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · Nov 27

In a year full of "voluntary severance, flexing existing resources, need for leaner structures and closing the nursery for £200K deficit"...🥁 💰The "above £100K" roles have increased @QMUL 💰 New 23/24 financial statement out now @qm_ucu finance.qmul.ac.uk/statements/

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QMUL UNISON 🌵@QM_UNISON · May 10

This is today ☀️ New funding model is needed urgently Build futures for all, not fortunes for Principals and VCs #FreeEducation #FundOurFuture #SaveUniversities #DefundVCs #DefendJobs

UUNISON in Higher Education@UNISONinHE · May 9

Join tomorrow's rally to protect education. We need a radical alternative to fund Higher Education, to #DefendJobs, and to #SaveUniversities! #FreeEducation #FundOurFuture. @ucu @unitetheunion @EISUnion Follow us on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/unison…

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University of Nottingham UNISON@UnisonUon · May 3

Nottingham East MP @NadiaWhittomeMP supports our campaign against job cuts @UniofNottingham. Councillor Sam Harris will raise the issue in the Labour Group. Please sign our petition: action.unison.org.uk/page/168838/pe…. Branch Chair Louise Stonard and Sec Vicki Morris at @TUC_Notts #MayDay.

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