Want to win a UCU keep cup? Of course you do! The winner of our “Best alternative Christmas carol competition 2018” will go home victorious with this splendid pink and purple light, reusable cup. (Tinsel optional.)

We’ll be singing our alternative Christmas carols 12.45–1.30pm, Tuesday 11 December, under the Christmas tree by the wavy lines sculpture.

If you’re looking for inspiration for your alternative Christmas carols, here are a few gems from last year which might be unearthed:

We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish we could keep our pensions
We wish we could keep our pensions
We wish we could keep our pensions
It would make our New Year

Sad tidings we bring, to staff and their kin
To have a fair pension, this fight we must win

And we all want a decent pension
We all want a decent pension
We all want a decent pension
So vote to strike now

Sad tidings we bring, to staff and their kin
To have a fair pension, this fight we must win

We won’t stop until we’ve won this
We won’t stop until we’ve won this
We won’t stop until we’ve won this
So join in right here

Sad tidings we bring, to staff and their kin
To have a fair pension, this fight we must win

Silent Night

Pensions theft,
We’re bereft,
Money slashed,
Hopes are dashed,
Manager’s wages rocket sky high,
It feels like we have been poked in the eye
Time for action is here,
Time for action is here.

Jingle bells

Jingle bells something smells,
Down in pension land,
Men in suits are fiddling ‘aboot,’
With our pension plans
Oh! Jingle bells, what this spells,
Is one big stupid mess,
They’ll de-risk it un-til it is
Com-plete-ly U. S. S

This page was last updated on 29 November 2018