Another tribunal (UCU this time)

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Will this one be accessible online? I'm always the last to hear about this stuff so I thought I'd get in early this time (it's next month). I've just seen a tweet about it, but it's to do with crowdfunding, so I think I can't link to it. It's about bringing 'an employment tribunal claim against UCU for unlawfully discriminating against us because of our protected 'gender critical' beliefs':

'Scheduled screenings of our film have twice been cancelled by protestors at the University of Edinburgh. On both occasions the Edinburgh branch of the Universities and College Union (UCU) denounced the film as 'hate speech' and 'transphobic'. We are members of UCU and yet the union has treated us and the film as beyond the pale and unworthy of a place on campus. '

All info gratefully received.

Combabies. Combooboos. Comrabies. Combobbleheads.

I don't mind the silly names. I don't mind the tears, I would be deeply distressed if the results of a serious research review contradicted my most cherished beliefs.

What I find shocking is their insistence that if you don't like the results then the research must be shoddy. That offends my core professional values as an academic.

Mixed sex, but yes to the larping. Grady reckons she’s leading the miners’ strike of 1984. At my local level there are always raised fists, lots of “solidarity” and general play acting at being radical, from the comfort of their nice offices.

My colleagues who are genuinely from a working class background (as opposed to identifying as such) have no time for all the nonsense.

Things might have changed since I left the UCU two years ago but I don’t think so, based on the twitter output. (My local branch’s Twitter is - somehow - even more egregiously insane than the National Twitter feed).

MarieDeGournay · 12/04/2024 16:17

Just posting a link to the BMJ's article on the Cass report, which completely refutes the 'shoddy' accusation:

Thanks, I've just posted the link, with a scathing comment, on Jo Edge's Twitter.

There are few things more sickening than middle-class prolier-than-thou types. The entire trade union movement has been hijacked by them, but I expect UCU is worse than most for this.

I dunno it doesn’t seem ironic. 🤷‍♀️

Sounds like you have excellent fodder for writing a great sitcom 😂

I hope someone does. I once got a novel's worth of inspiration out of a local Labour Party meeting. Everybody there was completely batsh!t (though mostly harmless), in unique ways. I wrote my ideas out but never wrote the book. And that was just one meeting! I never went to another, which I now regret just for the wealth of characters & plots.

Where's Glinner when you need him?! 😜🤣