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

#HandsOffMarie www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...

Refugees are welcome here - proud the UCU UHI branch is a signatory to this welcome letter @uhiucu.bsky.social #RefugeesWelcome www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/you-are...

Solidarity - amazing pickets 👏 Important fights @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social & by UCU Southampton Solent. If management are successful at taking these workers out of TPS, management will try it elsewhere. UCU needs to do it all it can to back up these beanches. Please show your solidarity!

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

Heading to the strike rally at noon outside @ucu.org.uk head office. #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation

Show Education some Love 🎉 Londonmet staff and students fight for Justice against cruel cuts ❤️

Solidarity @ducuuo.bsky.social Your level of consistently pushing back, and winning, is an inspiration to the rest of UCU Solidarity in this latest phase!

Wow! Congratulations to the Birmingham Bin strikers - that's demonstrating collective power. Very pleased we invited one of your strikers to UCU Congress last year. Hopefully, at this year's Congress, we will be talking about your victory 👍 Solidarity!

Solidarity to Unite UCU members - shameful behaviour, particularly the victimisation of a H&S officer. UCU SMT need to stop this now. #HandsOffMarie

Speakers at today's 1000+ North London Unity demonstration against racism and fascism. From left to right: Jeremy Corbyn, a speaker from Day-Mer Kurdish community group, and Liz Wheatley from Camden Unison

Good community demonstration today, opposing the far right. 49 years ago - the 'Battle of Wood Green' saw anti-fascists beat back the National Front. We need to stop the rise of racism and fascism again. Next stop - 28th March Together Alliance demo!

We need leaders who consistently pushback. During negotiations, negotiators may have sharpest arguments but if there isn't an active branch behind them - those arguments will be disregarded. The only way you have an active branch is by reps listening to members. www.reginepilling.com/updates/from...

Great to have endorsements from my branch - Alyson & Carly have taught me so much, as the previous branch sec's at my college. A branch sec is nothing without an active membership - management will never listen to your wise words in negotiations, without knowing you have members behind you.

UCU CCC members are prepped for the Together demo on the 28th. Reform UK and their fascist mates are a threat to our communities, to education, and to everything we hold dear. They must be stopped. We can and need a bigger anti-racist movement. Love, hope and unity ❤️ #TogetherAlliance #UCU

In the aftermath of the acquittal of six of the Filton 24, their families have spoken about what the verdict could mean www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...

For full details and a complete index of the trial, see the brilliant reporting from our friends at @realmediapress.bsky.social FREE THE FILTON 24 ✊ LIFT THE BAN ON PALESTINE ACTION 🇵🇸 realmedia.press/filton-verdi...

Prison Education is essential. Literacy rates are markedly lower amongst prisoners. To stop the cycle of crime - they need skills and the possibility of a better future. Core education in prisons across England will reduce by up to 25%. In UCU we need a strategy to reverse this.

“Closing Southend means losing homegrown social workers people who understand this community.” Join us this Thursday as we rally to stop the cuts and save Southend’s campus. 🕛 12:00–13:00 | 📍 The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend

Stronger together ✊ Hear from #LboroUCU members on why union membership matters and how we support each other. Be part of it: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/ @ucu.org.uk #UCU #JoinAUnion

Solidarity to all @ucuessex.bsky.social this is sadly, another shocking attack on HE. We need a national strategy to defend a diverse and accessible HE.

It was great to have Michael Rosen attend our picket line at Great Ormond Street Hospital School on Monday where 4 NEU members have been suspended. ✊ Solidarity to all members at GOSH fighting bullying and unacceptable management practices. #SaveEducation

Forcing staff out of their pension scheme and threatening dismissal if they object is shameful. It’s fire & rehire by another name. Show your support for staff at Southampton Solent University striking on 9 & 17 February to protect retirement security. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1439...

If you're in HE - here are some suggestions on how to vote. @uculeft.bsky.social

Today at 1 pm London Metropolitan University - join us to protest the 120 savage job cuts

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

Sean and Regi are fantastic #ucu people who have given so much to our union over the years. Please vote for them - #ucu really needs Sean and Regi to be our VPs!

Christina is a tireless campaigner. She has worked hard to build her branch, which is once again facing attack. Christina has worked with her branch, regionally and nationally to tackle casualusation. Please consider voting for her! @c-paine68.bsky.social #UCU #UCULeft

Standing in solidarity with Palestine needs to be based on actions - not just words We need to organise on the streets, in our communities and in our workplaces. Here is an updated on how we've organised at CCC, more to follow www.reginepilling.com/updates/pale...

I'm running to be UCU VP from FE - as educationalists, as well as trade unionists, we are standing to defend education. We need national strategies to defend jobs, improve pay, reduce workloads and end casualisation. Very happy to be supporting Sean Wallis for VP HE @seanawallis.bsky.social

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺, 2025. The first part of my speech at the Monument, Newcastle. In 2024 my branch, UCL UCU, gave £3,500 to Dundee, Brunel and Newcastle UCU. On June 11 2025, Newcastle UCU called a national demo. On 27 June, Newcastle Uni management gave in. youtu.be/Jagdb3tHLKU

100,000 people out on the streets of London in solidarity with Palestine. This is the largest anti-war movement - we will not stop until Palestine is free and the UK Govt ends its complicity and stops repressing free speech. Good to see another large TU bloc yesterday.

Over 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since 2023, with nearly 500 since the ceasefire. The UK Government is complicit in this genocide and have continually tried to silence those who stand in solidarity with Palestine. The mass movement needs to continue & trade unions need to be central to this

Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at @sheffielducu Punishment is not negotiation. ✊

H&S is a core element to our work as trade unionists - it should be, and it's our legal right. Full solidarity to any rep in this position. It's just more depressing / frustrating that it's being done by our own trade union SMT! #SOLIDARITY

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...

Today we remember the millions murdered in the Holocaust, and in the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. This year’s theme, Bridging Generations, is a call to action to listen, learn and carry those lessons forward. Join us at 1pm (GMT) today for a UCU webinar.

We are proud to join @togetheralliance.bsky.social. As an organisation that supports LGBTQI+ people seeking safety in the UK, we know firsthand how dangerous and dehumanising the current political climate has become. We need hope and unity, not division.

Our UCU branch have passed a motion supporting the Together Alliance demo. Our branch will be sending a BIG delegation to the 28th March. It's important trade unionists and everyone else turns out in big numbers - we need LOVE, HOPE and UNITY #Together

Absolute shocking to hear about the lockout at @sheffielducu.bsky.social in detail from @rorfitelli.bsky.social at London Region. Important that FE members talk to those in HE about how hard it is to fight back college by college - we need national strategies to these collective problems.

Along with donating to Sheffield UCU - please sign their petition: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Absolutely outrageous that staff are being locked out at Sheffield Uni - please donate and share the gofundme link. Solidarity!

Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

*SOLIDARITY WITH MINNEAPOLIS* 🤝🏽 *DAY OF ACTION* In solidarity with the call out in the US to walk out and strike against ICE on Friday 23 January: 💥Take action at work / Organise a meeting in your workplace / Put on a protest / Walkout at your school or university

London Met is once again under attack - 120 jobs are under threat and shows the increasing moves to reduce educational opportunities for the working class. Please send messages of support.

Short-termism kills knowledge. It's government that provides the incentives for this drive to cut into a university's key resource, whatever the long-term harm. We need an overhaul of the financial & governance system of #UKHE.

UCU at CCC will be organising a delegation to the Together demonstration. Hope to see lots of trade union banners & members there. Anti-racists are the majority. We need hope & unity.

Important event in Westminster today with UCU Union: A 25% cut in FE salaries since 2009 -this cannot go on: we need a new deal for FE

Our UCU CCC delegation to the UCU rally for FE strikers - Solidarity! #UCU #NewDealForFE

Brilliant pickets - love the homemade banner! And absolutely correct - it's not fair that FE teachers are paid less than school teachers. That's why we need to keep fighting for national binding bargaining! #UCU #NewDealForFE