STRIKE 2019: Get the pickets out resources

BSN is hosting a collection of images, emails, suggestions, videos (when they’re made) and anything else to help branches prepare for the forthcoming strikes. Send your material to us at branchsolidaritynetwork@gmail.com. Here’s our first batch.

Strike Handbook for UCU activists

Strike handbook (produced by James Sumner of Manchester UCU)Download

Stickers & memes

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  Designed by Jacob Love, Goldsmiths

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Checklist

Guidance for members

Sheffield UCU detailed guidance for membersDownload

Guidance for autistic workers and UCU branches produced by Anna Nibbs (Sheffield UCU) and Janine Booth (TUC Disabled Workers Committee)Download

What are the issues? Slides for students

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Thanks to Brighton UCU
The full Powerpoint presentation from Brighton UCU is here.

UCU branch information for students

Warwick strike FAQs for students

Warwick UCU slides for studentsDownload

Cambridge UCU 4 page strike explainer (PDF)

Cambridge UCU 4 page strike explainer EDITABLE (but please make a copy first)

Cambridge UCU 2 page support the strikesDownload

Cambridge UCU 2 page support the strikes EDITABLE (but please make a copy first)

Brighton support our strike (editable template)Download

Brighton powerpoint presentation for studentsDownload

Leeds UCU strike explainer for students

Goldsmiths UCU letter to students

Warwick UCU Strike FAQs for students

Royal Holloway UCU information to share with students

Strike FAQs for Sussex students

Warwick UCU strike explainer slides for studentsDownload

Additionally, there are leaflets explaining the strikes to students in Chinese and Arabic – produced by Universities Resist Border Controls.

Teach outs

Sheffield UCU

Liverpool UCU

Lancaster UCU

Sussex teach out schedule

Leeds teach out schedule

Bath teach out article

Goldsmiths teach out schedule

Cardiff teach out schedule

Royal Holloway teach out schedule

Model branch announcements about the action

Brighton statement here

Royal Holloway statement here

Ulster statement here

Model out of office messages

Out of Office message from Brighton UCU

Guidance on picketing

Very detailed guidance on how to organise your picket lines by Jo McNeill, former president of Liverpool UCU

Information for non-EU staff

See lots more information here from UCU

How to respond to a manager asking if you plan to take strike action

Videos

To everyone on the #UCUstrike:

✊🏾 Keep up the fight for good pensions.
✊🏾 Decent pay.
✊🏾 Equality.
✊🏾 An end to casualisation.
✊🏾 Manageable workloads.

These create the conditions for our universities to be amazing places!

Solidarity! I wish you success and power to the @ucu. pic.twitter.com/2QYa1gaQES

— 🚀MΛG!D (@MagicMagid) November 28, 2019

#UCUstrike will hit 60 universities from 25 November. Here’s @DrJoGrady, @ZamzamMCR and @CLAIRESOS on why you should support the strikes and turn your anger on university employers’ unfair treatment of staff. pic.twitter.com/Bv0YlxTELp

— UCU (@ucu) November 12, 2019

Join the UCU strike (Clare Rowan)

Queens University Belfast video

Strike BU – a message to students (Bournemouth UCU)

Employers’ responses

A comprehensive set of responses from university has been assembled by USS Briefs and can be accessed at https://medium.com/ussbriefs/vice-chancellors-emails-sent-in-relation-to-ucustrikesback-12c0b42a857e