Critics argue that the ECHR stops us from being able to deport illegal migrants. In reality, in 75 years the ECHR has only ruled against the UK in 13 cases out of 500k: 0.000026%. The ECHR is being used a scapegoat for domestic challenges, and we must defend it.

Sign our petition to keep the UK in the ECHR here:

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Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike. On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible. Support our action to save jobs and save the University! #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity

If you still have a Twitter/X account… Why?

Oh look. ULEZ works. Who'd have thought.

ASOS which is "work in the same way you’ve done for years" is not irresponsible. It's protecting our members until a fair & equitable hybrid policy is agreed. UCU SMT then deducting 100% of daily pay from staff taking ASOS & undermining its own policy? Now that’s irresponsible.

UCU has the privilege of appearing in the current edition of @privateeyenews.bsky.social Shame it’s about the toxic working environment, disfunction and unresolved dispute. #UniteUCU #UCU #Dispute

Southampton Solent University has been accused of an “unprecedented” attempt to move staff on to “inferior” pension schemes, with those not complying facing losing their jobs. Juliette Rowsell reports #academicsky #pensions https://ow.ly/wYQR50Xgr4g

Unprecedented, potentially unlawful retrograde proposals made by @solentuniversity.bsky.social If you have a vested interest in HE, this concerns you. We must stand together to resist these outrageous proposals. #HE #TPS #LGPS #Pension #post-92 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

We wondered last week whether @drjogrady.bsky.social would listen to @ucu.org.uk members, agree to unconditional talks & withdraw the threat of deductions for taking ASOS. So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b...

There are plenty more like Graham. Six-figure salaries at the top, cuts and chaos for staff. We’re exposing the hypocrisy in higher education. 🎥 Thurs 7PM | UCU Live: www.youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0... #WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYes

Fifty branches, representing over 36% of UCU members, have now called for @drjogrady.bsky.social to enter unconditional negotiations & remove the threat of punitive deductions against staff. Unite's repeated requests for such talks have had no response. Will she now listen to @ucu.org.uk members?

Oppose this. Just one week after Palantir sign a £1.5bn deal with the U.K. on AI and innovation? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

It’s becoming hard to see that this really is a Labour Govt. Sign and reject this nonsensical and ridiculous proposal, that was not found in the Labour Party manifesto. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... #NoToIDCards #Privacy #Palantir #DataHarvest

At our Emergency General Meeting, our branch unanimously voted in support of this solidarity motion with @uniteucu.bsky.social. This behaviour by @ucu.org.uk senior management is unacceptable and threatens the entire @tuc.org.uk movement. Read in full: qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how. How would you react? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

I think this guy’s in business. #LBC

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.

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:

How and why is Peter Mandelson still in post?

Every vain hour Mandelson remains in post is a further insult to Epstein's victims.

UCU deploys “vindictive” union-busting tactics in attempt to crush staff union uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u... #TUC #Unite #TradeDispute #TradeUnion #UnionBusting #ECHR #HumanRights

"Edinburgh Uni lecturers walk out on first of five days of industrial action"

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.

Shocking that UCU SMT are threatening to dock pay just for ASOS in Unite UCU’s dispute. Our branch is donating £150 + our Admin’s strike pay to their fund, with more to follow. We urge all UCU branches to donate asap to support our UCU staff strikers.

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

Is it really going to be flags, Farage, asylum seekers and boats for another 3.5 years?!

🚨 The vested interests of Reform politicians must be called out. But people thinking of voting Reform? We keep talking - not writing them off. I told the BBC how we’ll take on both Labour and Reform - and get @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social elected to the Senedd! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Quite frankly speechless. The hypocrisy is staggering. #TUC #UCU #Unite #TradeDispute #TradeUnion #ReclaimUCU

This is unbelievable @ucu.org.uk How can you be threatening 100% deductions for ASOS that is working at home rather than in office? UCU policy is against disprop ASOS deductions ASOS deductions breach workers Art 11 rights You contradict UCU support for members’ cases against employer deductions

100% deductions for ASOS is inhumane and destructive. We thought we had the backing of our own national union on this point. To see them implement what is a draconian policy (and not yet fully tested in the courts) against the colleagues who keep our branches running is devastating.

This cannot continue. It brings UCU into disrepute. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social #ReclaimUCU now

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

This is beyond appalling. A union engaging in union-busting. All TUs should be calling on UCU to cease and desist, and settle with @uniteucu.bsky.social for the sake of the movement @tuc.org.uk @yourparty.bsky.social #rReclaimUCU

On the same day in the Telegraph:

No words. What an embarrassment. #UniteUCU #ReclaimUCU #TradeDispute #LeadByExample #TUC #TradeUnion #Dispute #UCU

Jo Grady: “...these deductions are immoral, counterproductive, and have no place in our universities. UCEA and vice-chancellors need to stop with the bully-boy tactics which are damaging to staff, students, and the international reputation of UK higher education.’ www.ucu.org.uk/article/1287...

A trade union employer. Read that again. A TRADE UNION EMPLOYER. One rule for members, another for staff. #Unite #UCU #ASOS #TUC #TradeUnion #TradeDispute

Anouska de Georgiou speaking at the Washington DC press conference today (Sept 3, 2025). The survivors of the Epstein & Maxwell abuse want all the files released - and for Ghislaine Maxwell to stay in prison for the abuse she fully participated in and was jailed for 20 years for.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Good lord @lewisgoodall.com, very well done with that last caller. He speaketh the truth, and he’s a Londoner. You can take it from him! #LBC

They are not sending their best people

“Why would a rapist pretend to be trans when rapists are treated better than trans people?” 🤷😢