Reform mayor of Lincolnshire has voted to slash ESOL. A clear signal of the damage Reform intends to inflict on our communities. Demanding migrants speak English then cutting the very provision that makes that possible. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1441...

Reform cuts ESOL funding as it doesn't help "native Lincolnshire people"

Responding to a report that Reform mayor of Lincolnshire Andrea Jenkyns is pushing ahead with plans to scrap all funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) from 2027, UCU attacked the ...

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I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

🚨 HANDS OFF IRAN Join the emergency demonstration at Downing Street at 3:30PM today and oppose the US and Israel illegal war on Iran 👇

🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 🔥 Two week ballot window 🔥 75% turnout 🔥 73% YES to strike action 🔥 81% YES to ASOS Our members will not tolerate victimisation and won’t be intimidated. UCU staff are not the enemy. It’s beyond time for the GS to talk to us. #HandsOffMarie

Have you posted that ballot yet? Many will have them hidden on their desk under piles of marking, or somewhere in the bottom of their bag... Please vote - the leadership of UCU really matters! 🙏 If you believe branches by themselves can't solve this crisis - we need national unity. Vote left!

Please sign and circulate. NUS gets ministers to debate the student loan fiasco. Student loans were mis-sold: they were presented as a loan that students would be able to pay off, not a 9% tax. @ucu.org.uk @nus-uk.bsky.social @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social the.organise.network/campaigns/ra...

Rachel Reeves: Stop the student debt trap!

Rachel Reeves can't ignore the student loan crisis any longer. Sign this petition now to show that we won't stop until it's fixed:

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📍START POINT ANNOUNCEMENT Park Lane, Central London. Nearest tube: Hyde Park Corner 28 March. Noon. Full route, bloc map and accessibility information coming soon.

: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close. That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education? #Universities #HigherEducation

In an unprecedented move, one reflective of the deeply unprecedented times at our university, UoN branches of three different unions (@UCU.org.uk, @unisonorg.uk, and Unite) have all successfully passed motions of no confidence in the Vice Chancellor and the entire executive board.

*UCU NEC elections* Thurs = Last safe day to post! UCU Left candidates are rooted in their branches & regions. They're active- campaigning for better pay & conditions, countering casualistion, protecting & promoting equality, trans rights & anti-war. Please vote! uculeft.org/nec-elections-2026/

Join our open solidarity Rally with guests Jo Grady and Kate Bell and student and staff contributions and questions Monday 2nd 5:30 pm online *Mar 2, 2026 05:30 PM* us06web.zoom.us/j/8379504192... Meeting ID: 837 9504 1929 Passcode: 983908

Reform UK 'tax calculator' shows plans will most benefit super-rich

Reform UK 'tax calculator' shows lowest-paid get 'next to nothing' in tax cut plan

REFORM UK’s new “tax calculator” lays bare how the party will offer the steepest tax cuts to the wealthiest people in Scotland.

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An excellent article summarising the strength of feeling on campus against the VS scheme and its timing, at the University of Dundee. thejutejournal.com/2026/02/22/i...

“Irreparable Damage”: University Face Backlash After Voluntary Severance Scheme Announced.

Dundee University has faced backlash after announcing a further 180 FTE staff cuts through voluntary severance. This announcement arrives in the middle of a major restructuring of the eight schools…

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Youth unemployment is at an 11 year high - 16.1% of 16 - 24 year olds are out of work, education or training. Here is a piece by myself and Sean Vernell, standing for UCU NEC (London & East FE) arguing why the TUs need to build a campaign to change this. www.reginepilling.com/updates/yout...

Packed workshop - "Building unity: how can unions be better?" Since 2008 real term pay has dropped, yet productivity has increases. The rich are getting, richer and we're getting poorer. Reform UK can grow in these conditions. TUs need to take on these arguments @togetheralliance.bsky.social

Agnes Peters, UNISON member leading campaign for Migrant Fair Visas was incredibly powerful. Trade unions need to work together to protect migrant rights - division and oppression only benefits the bosses. We must stand together - fair visas for all! @unison.org.uk @togetheralliance.bsky.social

Sharon Graham, UNITE GS - on absolute 🔥 Clearly laying out how Reform UK have been able to grow - workers have been made to pay time and time again. Labour have failed to turn this around. A wealth tax needs to be introduced now. @togetheralliance.bsky.social @unitetheunion.bsky.social

Workers against the far right organising conference is about to start. Incredibly important event to build the fight back against the rise of Reform UK - they are preying on those disillusioned and left behind. Trade unions need to fight for all, to counter the far right

Join us 1-2 pm Nothing Holloway road february 23rd

Zionism was a minority movement among Eastern European Jews until the Nazi Holocaust. The dominant view of my grandparents' generation (see, eg. the Bund) was to stand and resist oppression, even race riots (pogroms). Now there can be no doubt. Israel is a pure colonialist project of the USA.

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US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

Absolutely horrendous - this is the threat of Reform UK (amongst others). They will do untold damage to our communities - we need a bigger and more unite campaign to stop them NOW feweek.co.uk/greater-linc...

Greater Lincolnshire to cut ESOL from 2027, mayor confirms

Greater Lincolnshire’s mayor will press ahead with plans to scrap publicly funded ESOL courses, despite consultation responses opposing the move.

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Here is the intro to my VP hustings speech - solidarity to all on strike and in dispute! We need a leadership who will support all branches and ensure members have the backing of the national union. The crisis facing post-16 education is a national issue, needing a national strategy.

400+ redundancies, Southend campus closed, the foundation year department closed, other departments decimated... ...not a popular plan, it seems! Our tireless picketers have been chatting to hundreds of staff and students a day, and we've secured loads of new UCU and Unison members and supporters ✊

*AT A UNIVERSITY SPIN-OFF*??? How is that legal? He makes decisions that impact the resources (financial or otherwise) that that spin-off benefits from.

UCU Edinburgh@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ah, surprise, surprise. Our VC's second job at a UoE spin-off *is* paid after all. We'd like to know since when, and why his SFC declaration of interests has only recently been updated. www.theferret.scot/edinburgh-jo...

UCU London Met Jeremy Corbyn stands with the UCU branch 120 jobs are being lost 1. A firm commitment to no compulsory redundancies. 2.Management to halt the current redundancies 3. Implementation of an enhanced voluntary severance scheme. 4. An open meeting with the Vice-Chancellor

Whatever the court decides, you cannot ban solidarity. Our latest donation to the @unitetheunion.bsky.social Birmingham Bin Strike has just been sent. ✊We have now raised over £4,000 for this strike. #StrikeMap #YouCannotBanSolidarity

The enemy of working people doesn't arrive in a small boat, they arrive by private jet.

Speakers: ⭐️ Sharon Graham Unite general secretary ⭐️ Andrea Egan Unison general secretary ⭐️ Daniel Kebede NEU general secretary ⭐️ Steve Wright FBU general secretary ⭐️ Fran Heathcote PCS general secretary ⭐️ Matt Wrack NASUWT general secretary ⭐️ Sarah Woolley BFAWU general secretary