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We must now stand together to protect livelihoods and resist short-sighted and demonstrably aggressive cuts to jobs. Members, keep an eye out for postal ballots dropping soon. If you work in Higher Education and are not a member of a trade union, now is the time to join.

We have negotiated in good faith with management, and suggested concrete alternatives to staff cuts. The uni continues to push ahead, despite high levels of voluntary severance, representing £16.5m in yearly savings – far more than the £9m target management set for this year

This afternoon, @ucu informed the Vice Chancellor that we will be formally balloting for local industrial action at @sheffielduni in relation to proposed cuts to the staffing budget and the threats to staff jobs due to restructuring.

Sheffield UCU Working Group on Palestine's second session on @WorkersinPales1's toolkit is taking place tomorrow 4th Feb at 1pm Sign up here: forms.gle/R3QpFAU8YUmPeA…

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If you are @ucu member @sheffielduni then there is still time to get your consultative ballot on industrial action submitted. Check you emails. We need a large turnout with a positive result to inform the next steps @sheffielducu

We have serious concerns about what this proposal would mean for the MLTC in terms of workload, and for SEAS staff, as both groups have been sidelined in the development of proposals Sheffield Needs EAS detail various supportive actions that can be taken sites.google.com/view/sheffield…

This proposal follows a similar change to European languages provision in the School of Languages and Cultures and the Modern Languages Teaching Centre a few years ago. ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/breaking-the-l…

In November, @SheffieldUni announced a formal review of language provision in the School of East Asian Studies, with the stated intention of moving this provision to the Modern Languages Teaching Centre. megaphone.org.uk/petitions/shef…

The University of Sheffield's plans to gut East Asian Studies, reduce academic staffing and eliminate all specialist undergraduate degrees in Japanese, Chinese & Korean will irreparably harm a vibrant, world-leading program and the university's reputation. megaphone.org.uk/petitions/shef…

Press Release: #NEU members at Longley Park Sixth Form College, #Sheffield are on strike on Wednesday 18th December in support of their NEU rep and NEC member, Duncan Blackie. #DefendDuncan

Our latest read on the state of our University: how the University of Sheffield wasted tens of millions of pounds on the scrapped 'Student Lifecycle Project' ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/stat…

Interesting to read this. Dundee University embarked on a large scale, 5 year Business Transformation project with a reported budget of £24 million, and publicly posted info says they spent £14 million. Now scrapped. But the lessons learned report is not publicly available…

Merry Christmas from the Sheffield Zooarchaeology Team. We are alive and well and still fighting for a more civilised university! @sheffielducu #Sheffield #Archaeology #zooarchaeology #savesheffieldarchaeology

We now enter into a formal dispute resolution process with the University, and reserve the right to move towards a formal trade dispute and industrial action ballot if necessary.

In a well attended General Meeting yesterday, Sheffield UCU members unanimously voted to lodge a Collective Grievance with the University in relation to the risk of compulsory redundancies across the institution.