Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

UCU has been fighting employers' efforts to make 100% pay deductions for Action Short of Strike legal through practice since 2019. We're not stopping now that our own UCU Senior Management is replicating the same worst practice. Much solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social.

Sometimes solutions are easy @drjogrady.bsky.social & @ucu.org.uk Let’s sit down and talk without conditions or threats that damage everyone. It’s time to resolve this dispute. Our statement, with support from the following branch committees:

Drafting a more extensive response, but for now we think that (1) @uniteucu.bsky.social rock [branch position, voted on in motions], (2) that this is no way of treating staff [union position, voted on in Congress], and (3) everyone should read this blog: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 ✅ strike action: 76% ✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80% ✅ turnout: 77% ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages." Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all. #ReclaimUCU

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

The List in meme-format: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Moving towards a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education! UCU Congress voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the Higher Education funding crisis. Motion & further info: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... JOIN to discuss next steps 3 June, 6pm: lu.ma/zs6bklhz 🧵

Thank you to all the amazing UCU branches who’ve been solid & vocal in supporting us. And huge #solidarity to those taking their own action. UCU isn’t one person, it’s its branches, its activists & its members. We want to work for & support you; being unable to properly do so is beyond upsetting.

Please see our letter to the VC following the Supreme Court ruling on gender definition

Hello, Midgley! Real good pup! @strikedawgs.bsky.social helps keep us sane.

Rally time! Jamie lays it out!

Full solidarity with UCU staff on strike with Unite. As branch officers we massively rely on their knowledge and support. Please listen to the democratic decision of your members and resolve the dispute now @uniteucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

A safe and professional workplace is what we *all* should expect but especially union employees. Our Liverpool branch motions supporting Unite workers have all passed unanimously. We all support you and are dismayed this hasn’t been resolved yet @ucu.org.uk

Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social members striking today. ✊✊✊✊

@ucu.org.uk I am ashamed of my union's treatment of its staff. Please settle fairly and decently now. It's long, long overdue. @uniteucu.bsky.social

@ucu.org.uk — evidence that members back our UCU staff on strike @uniteucu.bsky.social

When, some months ago,  we first posted our members’ testimonies - lived experiences of working for UCU - our employer’s only response was a demand they be removed. No contrition, shame or concern for their staff: just an anger we’d shared them. #UniteVoices uniteucu.wordpress.com/campaign-cam...

📣 May Day Rally 📣 We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London. All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace. #ThriveNotSurvive

I’m not in town today but so glad to see my @ucu.org.uk comrades out on the picket line in support of the UCU staff- incl our own administrator!- on strike with @unitetheunion.bsky.social Our branch calls for UCU Head Office to meet the staff demands and end this dispute. Solidarity Unite! ✊

We unequivocally support UCU staff on strike today! They have been so supportive, knowledgeable and hard working for our branch over the years. We can always count on them to have our backs. It's time to have theirs. Read our branch statement to Jo Grady the GS too. It's time to resolve this dispute

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Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

University of Liverpool / LSTM UCU support trans people unequivocally. Solidarity to trans and non-binary people everywhere. We are working now on how best to support or trans and nb members 🙏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

This is so far from what working for a trade union should look like, don't you agree @drjogrady.bsky.social Time this dispute between @ucu.org.uk and its staff was resolved.

​HE is in crisis. Join an online cross branch @ucu.org.uk meeting 10 April 6-7:30pm BST to develop a strategy for a dispute with Sec of State for Ed to tackle funding @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuessex.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=Av7h7B

And there it is. A shocking, appalling, and deeply disappointing announcement of an entirely unnecessary move from the university. But this is exactly why we have already started organising .

We have clear branch policy in solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social and are writing again to the GS calling for urgent resolution of this dispute. Uni of Leeds #UCU members if you’re in Leeds tomorrow please visit the picket outside the regional office on St Paul’s St 0830-0930 if you can!

Solidarity with all striking workers. As #UCU Edu Committee Chair I'd chair Cradle to Grave (flagship education policy conference) on 29 March. It's sadly been cancelled by HQ citing @uniteucu.bsky.social strike in preceding days. The dispute must be resolved Please sign: tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...

Let’s do this!

Alfie popped by to see us yesterday. They pointed out that we already have 237 colleagues who have already left the University of Dundee. We were told we need to lose 632 jobs top of this! 869 colleagues will be lost and this is just phase 1! #PicketLinePets #PicketPups #dogs #SaveHE

Our ballot is 🥁 🥁 🥁 OPEN! Vote YES for strike action and YES for action short of a strike. Defend jobs, defend professional respect Branch meeting at 1, check your email for joining link. @ucu.org.uk

Sign our open letter docs.google.com/document/d/e...

What an amazing teach-out today! Staff and students joining together to reflect on the changes needed to achieve a more democratic and inclusive higher education. @ducuuo.bsky.social

I wrote this for @bjsociology.bsky.social on organising in universities & the work we all need to do to defend & remake the university. It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Statement signed by 15 HEC members listing all the resolutions passed at our meeting last week in context. UCU members wishing to know the totality of what was decided at HEC last week, please read. drive.google.com/file/d/1tfVJ... Feel free to share with others.

What? Is? Happening? Bolton — sorry, “Greater Manchester” — University in some truly dodgy territory.

Hi, we are the UNISON branch for the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University. Give us a follow 😍@unison.org.uk @unison-uofg.bsky.social @unisonnorthern.bsky.social @unisonmedia.bsky.social @unisonsw.bsky.social @unisonglobal.bsky.social

This afternoon, @ucu.org.uk informed the Vice Chancellor that we will be formally balloting for local industrial action at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in relation to proposed cuts to the staffing budget and the threats to staff jobs due to restructuring.

Solidartity! We will fight this together!

ps, our reply 💕 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...

An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

This is fine 🔥🔥🔥

Feelin Good! Definitely Not Demoralised! ##FeelGoodFebruary

Management do love to treat us around this special time of year...💖🥰💐🌹🍫💖 Happy Valentines Day everyone!

Inferno of UK universities continues Even top of Russell Group is looking to make lots of redundancies Durham University announces £20 million in cuts in staff costs, over the 2024-25 & 2025-26 academic years www.palatinate.org.uk/durham-unive...

oh, @ulivucu.bsky.social is now here! But, from the sounds of it, not with good news 😔