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Just a little reminder - this is happening TOMORROW! See y'all there! @ucu.org.uk @ucucommons.org @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social @uculeft.bsky.social @unisoninhe.bsky.social @nasuwtnewcastle.bsky.social @ntyneside-nasuwt.bsky.social
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Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt must be a sign! @northumbriauni.bsky.social @andylong6.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social @qatar.bsky.social @stateofqatar.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @chroniclelive.co.uk
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Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnother @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line today. We never stop!
”We are not only fighting for our jobs, we are fighting for each other”: hear from me and other staff and students who joined picket lines at Uni of Aberdeen today 🪧✊🏻 www.gaudie.co.uk/wpress/index...
“We are not only fighting for our jobs, we are fighting for each other” – The Gaudie
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Why we must celebrate and support workers in struggle 👏Good article from Steve Wright, @fbunational.bsky.social, in today's @mstaronline.bsky.social, reflecting on the incredible @unison.org.uk #GloucestershirePhlebs. Share: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-... #StrikeMap #FBU #FireFighters
Why we must celebrate and support workers in struggle
MARCH 10 2026 will go down as a historic date in Gloucestershire — and potentially across the whole country. It marks the end of the of strike action by 37 phlebotomists.A near full year of struggle. ...
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Interview with Marion Hersh and @christinapaine.bsky.social on being a disabled UCU activist uculeft.org/interview-wi...
Interview with Marion Hersh and Christina Paine on being a disabled UCU activist
1. What does it feel like being a disabled UCU activist and NEC member? Christina: Being a disabled activist — and a long-term casualised worker with MS — means organising while simultaneously nav…
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Scottish Higher Education at a turning point: What future? By @carloucu.bsky.social uculeft.org/scottish-hig...
Scottish Higher Education at a turning point: What future?
— Carlo Morelli, Dundee UCU Scotland’s free tuition: an impediment to re-colonialisation? Four UCU branches in Scotland have successfully balloted for industrial action; Strathclyde, Heriot Watt, A…
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Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 5mo agoPlease share widely! Another day, another amazing message of support from a @northumbriauni.bsky.social student - an international student nurse💉, no less! - for @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's fight for pay and pensions justice ✊💙💚🧡💜💛. ucu-unn.org.uk/blogucu/329-...
Vote for our candidates in the upcoming NEC elections! @seanawallis.bsky.social for VP (HE) @regipilling.bsky.social for VP (FE) And our other candidates, all of whom stand for a fighting, member-led union. We also recommend some members of 'Rank and File Revolution'. uculeft.org/nec-election...
NEC Elections 2026
Vote for a fighting member-led union: We need action, solidarity and equality! It is vital that members vote in the upcoming NEC elections. Across post-16 education sectors, jobs are threatened, pa…
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Only strikes will save our sector. Go Nottingham!
University of Nottingham UCU branch@uonucu.bsky.social · 6mo agoAfter a massive turn out in the indicative ballot, we're moving to make it formal. On March 2nd, our formal ballot for another round of industrial action against Future Nottingham, compulsory redundancies, and course closures opens. If you are a member, make sure you vote! Let your voice be heard!
Read our statement on the announcement of 200 jobs to be lost at the University of Dundee. “DUCU believes that the timing of exits proposed in the VS scheme will cause massive disruption at a very sensitive time…when exams, marking, & processing of grades are taking place. sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/
Dundee University and College Union – Welcome to University and College Union (UCU) University of Dundee Branch home page.
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Today London Met collegaues, students and supporters were out in force againt vicious cuts. London Met has a proud history of educating working class students, many from the local community and many who are the first in their family to go to university. We will keep fighting ✊
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
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
Across the UK, UCU branches are fighting job cuts and compulsory redundancies at Stirling, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Essex, Solent, Leicester, Nottingham and London Met. Same story: cuts, overwork, and attacks on education. We stand with every branch in dispute.
Newcastle's strike action saved the university!
Sean Wallis@seanawallis.bsky.social · 6mo agoSolidarity works. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺, 2025. The first part of my speech at the Monument, Newcastle. In 2024 my branch, @uclucu.bsky.social, gave £3,500 each to Dundee, Brunel and Newcastle UCU. On June 11 2025, Newcastle UCU called a national demo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jagd...
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.
On the basis that in ancient Palestine some people did not refer to it as “Palestine”... The British Museum will henceforth be known as The Museum.
Middle East Monitor@middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following “concerns” by a UK-based Israeli advocacy group. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-bri...
Solidarity to Unite UCU members - shameful behaviour, particularly the victimisation of a H&S officer. UCU SMT need to stop this now. #HandsOffMarie
Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · 6mo agoSay “NO” to Victimisation in @ucu.org.uk 🚨 Strike rally ⏰ Thurs 12 Feb @ noon 📍 UCU HQ, Carlow Street, London Including guest speaker for the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine 🇵🇸 Everyone welcome! Bring your branch banner & your solidarity to say #HandsOffMarie
Sean & I wrote this. Reform UK are topping the polls & they hope to repilcate Trump's policies here. Reform are a threat to migrants & all marginalised people. They are a threat to education, trade unions & democracy. We must mobilise to stop them. @seanawallis.bsky.social #Together
Sean Wallis@seanawallis.bsky.social · 6mo agoStand with Minnesota – Stand Up to Farage Regi Pilling and Sean Wallis We can’t say we’ve not been warned. The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ‘Immigration and Customs Enforcement’ (ICE) agents have shocked people across the world. ICE has terrorised communities from LA to Minneapolis…
The Certification Officer (CO)will be the judge of whether or not Dr Jo Grady abused @ucu.org.uk resources. I know what I have seen, hopefully the CO will see through the bluster. I mean, those WhatsApp messages are clear.
Management @qmul.bsky.social lost yet another Employment Tribunal: the judge ruled it constructive unfair dismissal. Can we please keep senior managers under control *within* QMUL? They keep using uni money for fancy lawyers & be told by judges that they can't actually do the things they do...
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This is what it looks like when you refuse to tolerate trade union victimisation: voting YES and YES to defend a colleague. #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
📣 Unite UCU TU Victimisation Strike Rally ⏰ Weds 18 February @ 7pm 📍 In-person: Mechanics’ Institute, Manchester 💻 Online access: unitetheunion-org.zoom.us/j/9198478678... Everyone welcome ✊✊✊
Dundee UCU's strike action saved their institution! Striking is the only way to save our whole sector. #UCU
Dundee UCU@ducuuo.bsky.social · 6mo agoSolidarity with colleagues at Stirling who are striking over the threat to jobs. That’s three branches in two days who are joining others on the picket lines or in dispute across the Scottish university sector!
We must fight for every job but make sure we fight for the casualised workers
From 1 January 2027, the Qualifying Period for Ordinary Unfair Dismissal will fall from 2 years to 6 months as a result of the commencement of #EmploymentRightsAct2025. This provides union reps with a serious organising opportunity in the fight against casualisation. seanwallis.uk/2026/01/20/f...
How can we take the fight over casualisation forward?
Christina Paine and Sean Wallis in conversation Christina is the branch chair of London Met UCU. She is standing for election in London & the East in the UCU elections. Christina: Sean, what wo…
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Posted my ballot paper yesterday for the @ucu.org.uk NEC elections! Make sure you use your vote!
