Birmingham UCU

This weeks blog covers our thoughts and concerns on the recently announced Voluntary Leavers Scheme:

https://birminghamucu.org/2024/11/01/voluntary-leaver-scheme-vls-update/

Unison Birmingham Uni Branch UCU - University and College Union

Voluntary Leaver Scheme (VLS) update Just a few hours before announcing to the full university community, union committee members were called to a meeting where they were informed of the university’s plans for a Voluntary Leavers Sche…

NO TO FASCISM!

STOP TOMMY ROBINSON!

The enemy of the working class arrives in private jet not migrant dinghy.

Fascism endangers the entire working class!

Join the DEMO! Saturday 26 October at 11:30am at Picadilly, Regent St, SW1Y 4QF, Central London.

In our latest blog post Lucie Ryzova on behalf of the BUCU Committee writes ‘On Silences - and Decolonizing our Minds’

https://birminghamucu.org/2024/10/17/on-silences-and-decolonizing-our-minds/

Services matter:

Next Sunday!

Members are invited to take part tomorrow, assembling at 11 a.m. in Small Heath Park ending with a Rally in Edgbaston Street (near St. Martin in the Bullring) at 3 p.m.

Details in Birmingham Trades Union Council - BTUC post below ⬇️

🚨TRADE UNION BLOC🚨

Birmingham TUC calls upon all Trade Unionists to join the Big Birmingham Demo for 🇵🇸Palestine🇵🇸 on Sunday 13 October, Assembling at Small Heath Park at 11am and arriving at Edgbaston St by 3pm. Workers Unite!

Donate at https://shorturl.at/rqrXz or scan the QR code
Circulate to your branch and other comrades
STEWARDS NEEDED! Contact [email protected]
Bring your flags and banners!!

Thank you to the approximately 200 staff and students who came along today to support the Rally for Palestine as part of the National Mass Student & Staff Walkout

We call on all staff and students to join us next Thursday, 10th October, to protest one year of genocide and senseless violence in Gaza and beyond, to celebrate Palestinian life and resilience, and to call for immediate ceasefire and lasting peace and justice in the region.

Birmingham Trades Union Council - BTUC Rhiannon Lockley Unison Birmingham Uni Branch UCU - University and College Union

Today, this branch and its sister union Unison Birmingham Uni Branch have issued a statement in support of the students who were evicted this morning from the peaceful encampment on the Green Heart

UCU - University and College Union Rhiannon Lockley Birmingham Trades Union Council - BTUC

Link below, please read: ⬇️

UCU/UNISON joint statement of support of the Encampment – Camp Eviction At 5am this morning, a squadron of bailiffs descended on the Green Heart and forcibly evicted our students from campus. This comes less than 48 hours after the Encampment has been served with a Pos…

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A moving film on Palestine!

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Online viewing - only 100 places - more film info available by clicking on link within:

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Our students in the encampment need to raise at least £5k to legally defend themselves against accusations made by the University. Please, if you are able, donate to their fund ⬇️

UCU - University and College Union Birmingham Trades Union Council - BTUC Unison Birmingham Uni Branch Rhiannon Lockley, HE Midlands rep, UCU NEC

Legal Contingency Fund The University of Birmingham is taking its own students to court for possession of the land where our encampment stands. We are raising this fund for the purpose of defending our case for the right to protest on campus and as contingency for other legal troubles that may come our way. Any excess fun...

Today this UCU branch has issued a joint statement with Unison Birmingham Uni Branch in response to yesterday morning’s ‘Message from the VC’ issued to UoB Staff.

This Branch supports the right of any Student to protest peacefully.

UCU - University and College Union Birmingham Trades Union Council - BTUC Rhiannon Lockley, HE Midlands rep, UCU NEC

Joint statement from BUCU and UNISON committees We are writing in response to Adam Tickell’s message from the VC. He has announced that the university has decided to seek legal action against its own students based on their peaceful, disciplined…

🇵🇸BIRMINGHAM MAY DAY🇵🇸

Come celebrate May Day with these amazing doctors, academics and activists fighting for a better world

When: Saturday 11 May from 12pm
More info at: www.birminghamtuc.org/mayday



The audio on our TikTok (https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQnaLAu/) is from the film Mazdoor (1983) meaning "worker". The lyrics of the chorus translate as
"When we the workers demand our share,
Not a plot, not a field
We will demand the entire world"

Statement from Birmingham UCU and Unison Birmingham Uni Branch on the University of Birmingham Encampment for Palestine

We urge the Uni management to respect the peaceful student encampment and to constructively engage with the student demands.

Read the full statement here:

https://birminghamucu.org/2024/05/09/encampment-coalition-for-palestine-at-uob/

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Encampment for Palestine at UoB We have been made aware that students have set up an encampment at the University of Birmingham, as part of the global solidarity movement calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire in the Gaza…

Elections are taking place today, 2nd May. Voting in person? Polling stations are open from 7am to 10pm. Find out more at electoralcommission.org.uk/voter

Great to attend Wolverhampton May Day and see speakers Nick Kelleher, Roger McKenzie, and Ashik Mohammed- and meet Dom from UCU too!

In memory of Palestinian workers!

Our vigil and protest is TODAY at 12.30 on campus.

Please gather at the D on the Green Heart*.

We are laying 203 ‘Doves’ symbolising the deaths of aid workers in Gaza to date.

Members please read the latest BUCU Update mailed to Inboxes this morning for further details and information.

*Near North Gate

UCU - University and College Union Rhiannon Lockley, HE Midlands rep, UCU NEC Unison Birmingham Uni Branch Birmingham Trades Union Council - BTUC Birmingham Trades Council

The Branch is holding an International Workers Day Vigil and Protest from 12:30 on Wednesday 1st May. Assemble at the steps of the Green Heart between the Main Library and the Arts Building.

EDIT : Please note that the assembly point for this event has changed. Attendees should now assemble at the ‘D’ on the Green Heart near the North Gate.