❤️💙🩷🤎💚🧡💜💛@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social want to say a HUUUUUUUGE thank you to all the individuals and UCU branches at universities and institutions across the country who have donated £1000s to the branch fighting fund, including...

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social fight on to save pay and pensions.Thanks to everyone who came today, and honoured us with their time and energy: @drjogrady.bsky.social, @nasuwt-official.bsky.social @nasuwtnewcastle.bsky.social, @ntyneside-nasuwt.bsky.social, @newcastleucu.bsky.social, @ducu.bsky.social

@newcastleucu.bsky.social standing shoulder to shoulder with @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social at today's @ucu.org.uk rally in Newcastle. Amazing turnout, solidarity, and support.

✊✊✊THIS IS THE ONE! Today's @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line and rally banger! 👉👉👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbyrOBVDtR4. See you there.

Our member Jon will be on strike next week because he doesn’t want to lose any more colleagues “Over 600 colleagues have left the University recently. But it’s not just about the numbers. It’s about the friendly, dedicated people who are no longer here to research, teach and support others” #SaveHE

This is on Monday, as part of @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's strike activities - come along, all welcome! Please share! @ucu.org.uk

@ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @tuc.org.uk @tucneyh.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @danhollandnews.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @ucucommons.org @uculeft.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @newcastleucu.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

💪🥁📣PLS SHARE! @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social ON STRIKE 16, 17, 25, 26, 27 March AND 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 April. 👉👉👉25 March = NATIONAL RALLY TO PROTECT PAY AND PENSIONS 1PM at Monument in NEWCASTLE with UCU GS Jo Grady and President Elect Dyfrig Jones. All welcome.

BIG SOLIDARITY: 25 March JOIN!!

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social say to management @northumbriauni.bsky.social - time for a rethink on plans to steal pay and pensions? Our door is always open, and we have ideas to share!

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are grateful and delighted to announce donations from @lseucu.bsky.social, @newcastleucu.bsky.social, @southamptonucu.bsky.social, Huddersfield UCU, and East Midlands Retired Members Branch - generosity and solidarity as we continue the fight for pay and pensions justice!

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social pickets @northumbriauni.bsky.social this week to save pay and pensions: 17 Feb – from 8.45: Picket all City Campus, and Coach Lane Campus 18 Feb – from 8.45: Everyone at City Campus 19 Feb – from 8.45: Everyone at Coach Lane

Ramadan: your rights at work ☪️ Two UNISON members talk about support at work during Ramadan unsn.uk/4rXDLLF

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

@ucu.org.uk @chroniclelive.co.uk @timeshighered.bsky.social @theguardian.com @danhollandnews.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social @andylong6.bsky.social

Solidarity to all! ✊💕✊

THIS IS WHAT A UNION LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT SOLIDARITY LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT STANDING UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT LOOKS LIKE. IGNORE AT YOUR PERIL!

”I’ve got a very clear message to @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social, stop running to the courts.” Fran Heathcote @pcsunion.bsky.social, sending solidarity to @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin strikers. Show this council you cannot ban solidarity. Standing with striking workers is not a crime. #StrikeMap

Says it all @northumbriauni.bsky.social right now.

Solidarity picket visit to our colleagues @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social ✊✊✊

We stand with the #Birmingham Bin Strikers. You cannot ban solidarity. Standing with workers is not a crime. Shame on @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social. #StrikeMap #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike.

The current situation at the University of Dundee is that we are not getting our annual pay increase and that promotion processes are paused. At the same time the uni is refusing to rule out compulsory redundancies, it is advertising over 20 new senior management jobs for academic staff.

Thursday university of Essex staff will be taking to the picket lines to say no to cuts, no to job losses and no to the closure of the Southend campus. @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social stands with staff, students and @unison.org.uk as we fight together.

The HSE has issued the University with an enforcement notice over work-related stress, citing breaches of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. The University must now improve its stress policy and risk assessments in consultation with staff and unions.

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are on strike 12, 13, 17-19 Feb and 2-6 March to stop bosses @northumbriauni.bsky.social slashing pay and pensions forever. Please donate to the branch fighting fund here: Unity Trust Bank, UCU Northumbria Univ NE119, Hardship Fund, SC 608301, AN 20295578

This is great! Thanks @lboroucu.bsky.social Join today! www.ucu.org.uk/join%E2%9C%8A

Finally the contracts are signed and the merger is set to take place in August. What will happen to staff at Kent and Greenwich? We keep asking but not much is forthcoming. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Not just a university restructure but a coastal town losing its future. Rally tomorrow, 12–1pm, The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend (SS1 1NS). Be there.

News breaking of Filton24 acquittals. The real (war) criminals are still at large.

As a branch, we have just endorsed Susan Fitzpatrick (York St John University), Loes Veldpaus (Newcastle University), and Matt Perry (Newcastle University) for the 3 North East HE seats up for election in the UCU UK elections 2025-26 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1419...

Solidarity Forever @newcastleucu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @brunelucu.bsky.social @uclucu.bsky.social ... and if anyone recorded the second half of my speech, please get in touch!

Here's a bit more Grant-based solidarity to brighten your morning. With @vickyblake.bsky.social - and pooch - June 11, Monument, Newcastle. Bringing solidarity to @newcastleucu.bsky.social from @leedsucu.bsky.social and @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social respectively. You can see who is boss.

Colleagues were interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about @qmul.bsky.social's sudden escalation in taking down posters & threatening disciplinary action. It is a great explanation of what's happening & its dangers. Listen from 22min in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or clipped: youtu.be/SJGnCrDaCf0?...

@georgeclarke.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @northumbriaiww.bsky.social @josephinecumbo.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @uswucu.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social @neunion.bsky.social

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

How does it feel when your employer doesn't seem to be bothered about the risks to staff morale and retention caused by plans to steal pay and pensions? @northumbriauni.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Solidarity with everyone at @sheffielducu.bsky.social. We were locked out at Liverpool for a few weeks in 2021… the university came to regret that.

Did you sign already: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

“How many people have you spoken to about the ballot?” “How many pink envelopes can you see in the pigeon holes?” Fired-up words from @drjogrady.bsky.social at today’s LSE branch meeting 💪 #WeAreTheUniversity

Yesterday our interim Principal, gave evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee. He stated that he had never ruled out redundancies. Judge for yourself.

"I’m voting YES to stop the massive cut in staff pay and protect our sector." Today a member from UCL tells us why he’s voting YES. Why are you voting YES? Tell us below and tag a colleague. #WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES

Not a good look - not a good look at all….

You have our full SOLIDARITY colleagues at Teesside University UCU! We need to collectively fight to stop redundacies everywhere! We can stop them!

Solidarity with Teesside Uni UCU!

“Jon Bryan, University and College Union (UCU) Regional Support Official for the North […] alleged that Teesside University has lost 20 per cent of its workforce over the last year”. We can’t go on like this. We need to change the way we fund our universities before it’s too late.

UCU calls on Teesside University to rethink job cuts plans | UCU

We have voted to force management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies. The result demonstrates the anger & disappointment with the lack of progress and failure of successive leaderships at the University to deliver a sustainable way forward that protects jobs and the University’s future.