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🗣️🗣️How is the UCU National ballot connected to and distinct from KCL UCU’s local ballot? An explainer from @jamiewoodcock.com KCL UCU’s branch chair ⬇️

❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza ⬇️

Join us for a discussion on The Latest in Game Worker Organising with: Sarah Elmaleh, SAG-AFTRA and Spring McParlinJones, IWGB Game Workers Online and at the Science Gallery London from 6pm on the 17th October Register here: luma.com/3b8fpjj3

Everyone should subscribe to Long Haul. Beautifully made magazine of worker writing. Feels like the spiritual successor to Viewpoint longhaulmag.com

Just launched the 'Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital' journal. The starting point for this is a shared understanding that Marxism can provide important conceptual tools for understanding the relationship between workers and capital, as well as supporting the struggle against capital.

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

Solidarity with the Birmingham bin strike! Depot shut down this morning

Visited one of the Andor sets today!

Join the @strikemap.org Megapicket supporting the Birmingham bin workers, coaches up from London on the 25th July!

Tolpuddle Martyrs walking tour as part of the festival: James Hammett's grave, the tree, the martyr's cottages, and the newly reopened Martyr's Inn

Tower Hamlets Trades Council banner up at Tolpuddle festival!

Someone asked me why game workers haven't unionized if our conditions are so bad. These charts are why. We have collectively lost the knowledge, skill, and willingness to organize and strike. We have to rebuild those, and that takes time.

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

I was elated to give a speech last Saturday to my fellow union members which was inspired by one of the most amazing shows made recently. www.austinkelmore.com/blog/all-we-...

ANNOUNCEMENT: If we hit 1000 backers in the next 48 hours... We'll send a FREE digital copy 📝 of The Scum & Villains Expansion 🎲 for galactic 2e to ALL backers! Less than 100 backers to go! Back Galactic & Rogue ASAP for this black market expansion of crime, corruption, and just maybe, redemption!

What's in The Scum & Villains Expansion? Here's a look at just one playbook: The Mercenary 🔫 A wandering warrior, bearing scars of a lonely life, and—via the new individual Fate mechanic introduced in TSVE—destined to grow into someone new. Wonder where I've seen a "chromasteel pauldron" before...

If you care about video game workers and want to follow all the game worker unions across the world, we've created a starter pack with all the ones on BlueSky. If we've missed one, let us know! go.bsky.app/PNcLPFU

Tanzil Chowdhury writes for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social on 'Legal Workers and the workplaces of law' about his latest co-edited book (w/ @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social ) frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

KCL was one of the branches that voted on this motion before it went to UCU congress. Great to see the union debating this strategy! If you want to get involved in the rank and file campaign, sign up below:

👀📖 — a new issue of ⁦‪Long Haul magazine — #1u

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 🧵

Motion brought by @ucuessex.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social, Oxford, Kingston, UAL #UCU2025 #UCUCongress

This is an excellent account of the UC Strike for Palestine from the Santa Cruz grad workers If you want to support more writing like this, subscribe to Long Haul magazine longhaulmag.com/uc-strike-fo...

Now that the final episodes of Star Wars Andor have aired: the call for contributions to Andor Analysed, part 2 is live! Want to write about Andor? Send us a pitch by the 30 May, drafts due 29 August. Get in touch with any questions/ideas. Full details: www.redfuturesmag.com/publications...

Now that the final episodes of Star Wars Andor have aired: the call for contributions to Andor Analysed, part 2 is live! Want to write about Andor? Send us a pitch by the 30 May, with drafts due 29 August. Get in touch with any questions/ideas. Full details: www.redfuturesmag.com/publications...

KCL UCU sends its solidarity to the students who have, since Monday evening, re-occupied King’s Strand campus quad to protest our university’s continued complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and oppression of the Palestinian people. Our full statement ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Reminder: submit to the Historical Materialism London Conference! From 6-9th of November - with a Postgrad pre day on the 5th. We're running a stream with Notes from Below on Workers and Capital! Get in touch for more info and submit here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

🗣️🗣️Our next KCL UCU General Meeting is happening ⭐️TOMORROW 30 May 1-3pm ⭐️ with a pre-meet 1-1.30 for people who have not been to a General Meeting before. Please do come along, online on Teams or in person. The more the merrier!🗣️🗣️

Always good to remember our wins as a union and a union branch. Because we do fight, and we do win! ✊✊✊

Only a few more days until the new series of Andor starts! That also means the call for participants in Andor Analysed part 2 is coming soon And if you haven't read part 1 it's available online and in print: www.redfuturesmag.com/publications...

Out now! New working paper with @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social Against Platform Exceptionalism. Towards New Theories on the Platformisation of work. www.tu.berlin/da/publikati...

👏 Meet our eleven new Digital Futures Institute Fellows! Congratulations @lboungr.bsky.social, Rowan Boyson, Mark Cote, Amrita Dhillon, Alex Gould, Elisabeth Kelan, @niccoloridi.bsky.social, Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, Astrid Van den Bossche, @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social & @lorenzoz.bsky.social 🔽

GAIL’s Bakery is keeping a close eye on their workers🔎🕵️ Increased surveillance helps bosses increase your workload and can be used to gather intel about worker organising! GAIL’s workers don’t need to be spied on, they need a union!💪 retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/4/...

Please fund this generously so I, the designer, can become a good billionaire and change things from the inside... of my deluxe space yacht... in space... while the rest of you stay here to fry on earth. Thank you.

Billionaires & Guillotines boardgame by @maxhaiven.bsky.social has launched on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/plu...

The cfp for Historical Materialism London 2025 is now out! We're running a stream on Workers and Capital with @notesfrombelow.bsky.social Get in touch if you're interested in presenting! www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

share. join. etc. #FreePalestine #Union #Solidarity

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki... @kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

The Employment Rights Bill has been called the biggest boost to worker rights in a generation,but huge gaps remain in enforcing these rights. So we're investigating the barriers workers face when they seek justice at tribunals. But we need your help! www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

@metafrantic.bsky.social I'm trying to track down a copy of Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction, and someone recommended getting in touch here!

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

cwa, which represents over 2,000 workers across companies like microsoft, is launching a new games industry-wide union that anyone can join, even laid-off workers. with legal frameworks for organizing under attack, it's a return to tactics that predate those systems aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-vide...

NEU picket line at St Dominic's school in Hackney this morning. Teachers and parents fighting the closure of the school

BOOK LAUNCH: LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY Come celebrate the book launch of the first ever UK legal sector workers inquiry MANCHESTER Hosted by @greatermanchesteruniversities.org tinyurl.com/legalworkerm... LONDON Hosted by @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social gardencourtchambers.co.uk/event/free-b...

London May Day Organising Committee presents 📣 May Day 2025 🌹 Yes to workers rights, no to the far right. 📍Assemble 12 noon 🥾March 1pm 🎪Rally 2.30 Speakers to be announced 🗣️ #London #MayDay2025 #MayDay #LDN #Workers #Unions

Hello world - we're here! The New England Labor Housing Initiative is a new project to support labor union-led efforts to address the affordable housing crisis and homelessness. Check out our website: www.newenglandlaborhousinginitiative.org

Hype: youtu.be/AE4wxt70aUM

We are excited to announce the first Game Developers unConference! The unConference is an unconventional experiment –a leap of faith that we can do more when we come together than we can when we are apart. You can learn more here: www.gameworkers.co.uk/unconference/ Register here: lu.ma/3qrghakj

Brasil! Brasil! The birth of modernism at the Royal Academy of Arts