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?” 🤷😢

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Papers please! We need to share sensitive personal data with third parties to access all parts of the internet, and now we may need to get a “Digital ID” to appease the racists shouting at empty buildings and dinghies? Which party’s Governing the country again? #RedTories #SurveillanceState

As usual, it's either “we need this to protect you against the dangerous terrorists” or “will someone please think of the children?”. (This cartoon is at least 20 years old, by the way. Some things just don't change. People fall for it every time.)

Your being; manipulated.

Wow. In under 24 hours, 200,000 people have signed up to build a real alternative to poverty, inequality and war. Something special is happening - be part of it at yourparty.uk.

And will people on this platform please stop reciting the research *funded by the water industry* which claims that renationalisation would be "too expensive"? We should learn to recognise corporate propaganda when we see it. In reality ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Water companies sidestep Govt’s bonus ban. Ministers were repeatedly told that the law was weak but didn't listen. Law bypassed - water companies hike exec pay, rename bonuses, give execs multiple directorships, shares, perks. Govt refused to empower customers to vote on exec pay.

Doubling of Southern Water boss pay 'outrageous', says Minister. Fake rage PR. Govts have done nothing to check rewards for failure. SW has 119 criminal convictions, dumps sewage, leaks unplugged, customers fleeced, bosses rewarded. Fake rage is no substitute for action.

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

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 🧵

If only the Government spent this much time and energy challenging Israel and the unlawful slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

If only there were half the outrage over Israeli soldiers shooting starving people queuing for food as there has been towards some rappers mouthing off at Glastonbury, we'd be in a very different place

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

1. Starmer was warned and warned that his benefits cuts were not just cruel and unfair, but a political disaster. He dismissed the warnings, even this week, as no more than "noises off". Now, as the disaster materialises, he's desperately backtracking. Here's an idea: how about listening? 🧵