Another 12 more UCU branches have signed (so far) today! uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u... We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.

Highlights of the #YourParty #Chesterfield & North #Derbyshire get together, held on Wednesday evening, are now on YouTube: youtu.be/-Vf-U4T5t7I

#LboroUCU response to the far-right demonstration in London this weekend, and the nationwide St George’s and Union flag display campaign: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-opposes...

What a great first #YourParty get together in #Chesterfield. A truly inspiring meeting filled with hope for a better future. Over 130 like minded people in the room and on zoom. Onwards and upwards!

The results of the LUCU Staff Survey, held earlier this year, have now been published on our branch website. You can see them, and a brief report, here: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/report-from-... #LboroUCU #LboroFamily #StaffSurvey

🚨 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

Been out this evening at #Chesterfield Train Station leafleting for the #YourParty Chesterfield & North #Derbyshire Get Together next week with some good comrades. Details and more: linktr.ee/yourpartyche...

We are very pleased to announce that we have a new Department Rep in the School of Social Sciences & Humanities. Meet our very first UCU Rep for the new Loughborough Law Department in this article: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/a-new-rep-fo... #LboroUCU #LboroFamily #LboroLaw

A reminder that you can still sign up for our Allyship & Solidarity CPD session, details on the post below.

Sometimes a barrier is a good thing! Join #LboroUCU today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/ Or if you work in another sector, you can find the best union for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion #JoinAUnion

#LboroUCU has organised an online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 23rd September from 12 noon. For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...

Find out what happened at our #LboroUCU AGM and who's in each role on the LUCU Committee for 2025-26: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-agm-202...

😡 Targeting our reps 😡 Refusing to talk 😡 Imposing an office return with no equality assessment or hybrid agreement 😡 Breaching agreed procedures 😡 Unsafe levels of work-related stress Just 5 reasons our ballot opens today for a Safe & Professional Workplace. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...

Please sign and share the @tuc.org.uk petition to Members of the House of Lords demanding they pass the Employment Rights Bill in full. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...

Please sign and share to support @bcu-ucu.bsky.social

#LboroUCU has organised an online CPD workshop, "The Menopause is a Workplace Issue", open to all LU staff and Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Wed 20th August from 12 noon. More info and to register: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-t...

Join #LboroUCU today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/ Not in the Education Sector, find the best union for you via @tuc.org.uk: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion

We’ve been relatively quiet recently. Unfortunately this isn’t because we’re finally making progress in our long-running dispute over our demand for a safe and professional workplace. Nor is it because industrial relations are improving and our employer is now engaging meaningfully. Long 🧵

At lunchtime today!

Ok, it's here, get on this bus!

The #LboroUCU AGM & Branch Social both take place tomorrow, 2 July, in EHB002. All members are invited to attend the AGM from 12:30pm. From 1:30pm the Branch Social will begin where you can meet other LUCU members. Snacks & light refreshments provided. For more info: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/lucu-annual-...

Our branch has declared no confidence in UCU’s SMT to protect the well-being of staff, nor in its commitment to improving industrial relations. With the increasing victimisation of our reps, and SMT now repeatedly imposing changes in working conditions and policies, our dispute continues.

Join your colleagues to celebrate the end of the academic year at the Staff Summer Picnic: 12-2pm, 1 July, EHB Pavilion. A special event to celebrate your achievements & take some time to relax and unwind, hosted by @lborouniversity.bsky.social & Campus Trade Unions. ucu.lboro.ac.uk/staff-summer...

Universities on the brink? The Education Committee launched a new inquiry and now welcomes written evidence submissions that respond to the terms of reference for the inquiry. Submissions can be made via the Committee’s website until 31 July. More info: committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

Contextualising the Conflict: A Brief History of the Middle East. An open meeting on 8 July 12:30–13:30 focussed on contextualising the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Ali Bilgic, presents a potted history of the Middle East. The session is open to all #LboroFamily staff & students. More info:

Deeply ashamed of my union behaving like the bosses we fight. Imposition, victimisation and union-busting needs to stop right now @ucu.org.uk. Solidarity with UCU Unite staff ✊

😡 Imposition, not negotiated agreement 😡 Victimisation of reps 😡 Refusal to engage with the recognised union ☣️ All signs of a toxic organisational culture & not what we should see from a union employer. Shame on @ucu.org.uk whose staff deserve so much better uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/1...

Do you know who your #LUCU Department Rep is? Have you considered joining the #LboroUCU Reps Team? Find out who your Rep is and what's involved in being a Rep here: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/reps-contacts #TradeUnionRep #UCU

"We value the work that all of the staff at UCU provide to our branches, and expect them to have access to the same fair work practices that we fight for as a union." Open letter for all @ucu.org.uk members to sign in support of @uniteucu.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Following the latest staff survey results, in which some staff have expressed frustration results do not seem to reflect day-to-day experiences working at the University, #LboroUCU is launching its own short survey to help us to better understand the lived experiences of staff at the University.

#LboroUCU have recently launched a new page on our branch website focusing on #Equality. You can see the new page, in full, here: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/equalities/

Thank you to all the UCU members who came to our fringe last night - and sorry we ended up with standing room only (again!). Our members absolutely appreciate your ongoing support, especially the unusually small handful required to work at #UCU2025 in somewhat trying circumstances. #Solidarity

*Today @ 6.30pm* *Unite UCU Fringe* 🗣✊🗣✊ Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool #UCU2025 #UCUCongress

One of us, all of us: fighting for our members, our workplace, your union. 6:30pm, Saturday 24 May, Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool #YNWA

Stop redundancies at the Uni of Derby: sign the petition! Facing mass redundancies following a voluntary scheme, the 1st target are the professorial & associate professorial grades. The entire group were put at risk but the university have now changed this to 35, nearly a 50% cull of those grades.

Unite UCU fringe at #UCU2025 Congress When: 6.30pm, Saturday 24 May Where: Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool One of us, all of us: fighting for our members, our workplace, your union. #YNWA

#LboroFamily, you are invited to attend "For the future: a reflection on the legacy and time of Fredric Jameson" TONIGHT (Wed 21st May) online from 6pm. Speakers include @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social and Dr Patricia McManus. Contact Brian Jarvis ([email protected]) to attend.

"Are the UK’s universities failing financially?" A piece by Richard Murphy which, in about ten minutes, succinctly outlines the structural issues which will likely destroy HEI's in the UK, including Lboro Uni.

Thanks to @ducu.bsky.social for the solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social We appreciate it massively. Solidarity back to you in your dispute too ✊🏽

On Friday @jeevunsandher.bsky.social, MP for Loughborough, joined #LboroUCU and staff from across the university for an open meeting on the future of Higher Education policy in the UK. We send thanks to LU staff who attended & asked insightful questions & to Jeevun for his responses. #LboroFmaily

Newcastle University strike highlights crisis in UK higher education.

Register now for an online CPD workshop, open to all #LboroFamily staff, which will help staff with the tools to take a collective approach and push back on excessive workload. It takes place on Wed 4 June, 12:30–2pm. For more info & link to register see this article: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/challenging-...

A reminder that #LboroUCU is hosting an Open Meeting, this Friday: “The Future of Higher Education Policy in the UK” with @jeevunsandher.bsky.social, MP for Loughborough. All #LboroFmaily staff are invited to join us on May 9th, 1-2pm, in U005 (Brockington Extension) or online.

"People don't always join a union... ...but when they do they get higher wages and better benefits." Join @ucu.org.uk (University and College Union) today: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/ Work in another sector? Find out which union is best for you, here: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion #JoinAUnion

🪧 STRIKE RALLY TODAY 🪧 Bring yourselves, bring your banners, bring your flags, bring your solidarity and, with the sun due to shine bright, bring your sunscreen ☀️☀️☀️ - health & safety: important to us if not to our employer! So come and join us at noon outside UCU head office in London.

Thanks for expressing solidarity with all striking workers. Any chance of a shout out for our strike rally tomorrow? 🙏

📣 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 joined a @uniteucu.bsky.social strike picnic today in Sheffield. Lovely to meet some colleagues for the first time in person. Thanks for the solidarity from #UCU members who came along too. #uniteucustrike

Back out on the picket lines this morning in Leeds…

…and last but not least, our North West colleagues picketing in the shadows of Emmeline Pankhurst.