Cambridge UCU sends full and wholehearted solidarity to your branch in fighting back against horrendous job cuts. We must stand together across the union in support of your strikes. An injury to one is an injury to all – these are the principles of our movement and collective resistance to managerial failure is more urgent than ever. – Anne Alexander, Communications Officer Cambridge UCU

 

All solidarity with your branch. – Reading UCU

 

I write on behalf of the University of Southampton UCU branch, to express our solidarity with you all during the strike action that you are taking to protect jobs at Newcastle University. – David Bretherton, President Southampton UCU

 

Good luck and solidarity for your dispute. – Pete Wood, Open University UCU

 

All solidarity with your fight to defend jobs at your university. We need a not-for-profit educational system, free at the point of use, from the cradle to the grave. – Geoff Taylor, UCU Southern Region Retired / TEFL Workers’ Union (IWW)

 

Sending solidarity to the Newcastle strike from all of us as BCU ucu! – Rhiannon Lockley, Birmingham City University UCU Chair

 

Solidarity to Newcastle UCU members today from Dundee UCU and our members. Stay strong. United we win. – Carlo Morelli, Dundee UCU

 

I hope this message finds you as well as possible, given what is happening in our sector. I am writing to express our branch’s solidarity for your branch. We feel for you in the challenges you are facing and want to offer what little we can to stand with you during this time. – Anke Buttner, Birmingham UCU Treasurer

 

Haringey Trades Council would like to extend our solidarity greetings to the Newcastle University workers in the UCU taking action to defend against job cuts. Our comrades in the UCU London Retired Members brought the issue to our attention. – Peter Woodward, Haringey TUC Secretary

 

Solidarity to you all on the first day of your strike action against job cuts. We’ve been hugely impressed at how quickly you won such an impressive mandate to fight these vicious cuts. Your example, as well as those of Brunel and Dundee UCU, is encouraging more branches to fight back too. It’s an utter disgrace that this government is betraying the millions who voted for an end to Tory policies. Instead Starmer is ramping up arms spending, cutting foreign aid and boasting that Labour is deporting more refugees than the Tories did. That’s why we can’t leave branches like yours to fight alone. Our union needs to stand up and fight for the whole sector – for education not bombs. Let’s spread some hope and fight for a better future for all. Here’s to you. Victory to Newcastle strikers! – Roddy Slorach, Imperial UCU

 

I wanted to wish you well in your strike this coming month. It’s such a big step, but sadly sometimes so needed. Good luck! We’ll be thinking of you. – Jon Norman Mason, Brighton UCU

 

I’m writing on behalf of Oxford UCU to send greetings of solidarity to Newcastle UCU for your industrial action to defend your jobs, working conditions, and the quality of teaching and research at Newcastle. – David Chivall, Oxford UCU President

 

Huge solidarity to Newcastle UCU! Congratulations to staff, branch lay officers and members for an excellent ballot result in response to the appalling management plans for 300 redundancies. Together we need to ensure that the failed HE funding model changes. University staff deserve job security and our full support, so that our students, our regions, the whole country benefit from quality education. You have my full support. Solidarity. – Maria Chondrogianni, UCU President Elect.

 

Sending solidarity to our colleagues at Newcastle from Loughborough University UCU.  The scale of the cuts you’re facing is disturbing and we congratulate your members on taking action to fight it.  Staff and students should not bear the brunt of broken university finances or a broken HE funding system. – David Wilson, Loughborough UCU Branch Chair

 

Solidarity at this difficult time for Newcastle University workers. At such a dire time it can be vital to give our members hope that our struggles can win. – Donna Brown, Royal Holloway University London UCU

 

With solidarity and very best wishes from all your colleagues at UCL UCU, you are on the frontlines, but this is a fight that affects us all. – Danielle Lamb, UCL UCU Treasurer

 

Our members have overwhelmingly backed strike action because they refuse to allow their colleagues to pay the price for management’s failure to budget effectively. The vice-chancellor now needs to concentrate on resolving this dispute and avoiding strike action at home before thinking about opening up new campuses in India.  – Jo Grady, UCU General Secretary

 

We are writing to you to express our solidarity after hearing of the 300 redundancies at your institution, along with the two year ‘transformation’ project being proposed.  We will do what we can at Leicester to ensure that what is going on in Newcastle and other places does not go unnoticed. – Nataly Papadopoulou, Leicester UCU Secretary

 

Thank you for organising your pioneering and inspiring call to action against job cuts.  We know it is hard work and not easy.  You are demonstrating clearly that our union can be rebuilt and re-fuelled by branches taking industrial action against cuts.  We hope that the growing number of branches like yours will mean that meaningful national action can follow.  Nothing else can address the crisis in Higher Education. Employers need to know that we do not accept that the market, with all its instabilities, should dictate the provision of education. – Kingston UCU

 

We have been dismayed by the cuts, and threat of so many redundancies, announced at Newcastle University. We have also been inspired by your deft and decisive response to the cuts. We are a small branch, but if there is anything we can do to help you in your fight, please let us know. We are sending so much solidarity. – York St. Johns UCU