Imagine this happening to the fishing industry in a fishing town. The papers would be up in arms and screaming bloody murder. Extrapolate this across the entire UK over the last 5 years and projected for the next 5. I think we would see 6 figure job losses in one of the UKs most lucrative sectors.

THE PARADOX OF DIFFERENCE: Moving Beyond Border Crossing, Translanguaging, and Unit Thinking by Neriko Musha Doerr has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/4osHzCe #Theory #Methodology #MigrationStudies

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The newest OPEN ACCESS issue of Learning and Teaching has been published! View the TOC for this special issue entitled “Effects of the Pandemic Crisis on European Higher Education," here: bit.ly/4rPzZ7V @pennywelch2025.bsky.social @agtgibson.bsky.social @ainemahon.bsky.social

The DEC Middle East Humanitarian Appeal helps to provide lifesaving food, water, cash and medicine in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and Syria. You can donate here, and your donation will be doubled by the UK government www.dec.org.uk

University senior managers: Will negotiate with Reform. Won’t negotiate with their own staff.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

RMT warns of surge in violence against rail workers while BTP presence cut Rail union, RMT says a sharp rise in attacks on rail workers are taking place at the same time as the British Transport Police (BTP) presence is being cut on the network. rmtunion.org/3KBMYJp

Free Dr Abu Safiya secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

What exactly do we pay those senior managers all those six-figure salaries for? They claim it’s for their big strategic thinking, but all they do is hand a bunch of money to external consultants to get the exact same PowerPoint as elsewhere.

Justice For Cleaners. Outsourced DLR cleaners working for Bidvest Noonan are back on the picket line today. Their demand? Company sick pay. Currently they're offered nothing unless they're terminally ill.

*PSA EVENT* 🚨THIS WEEK🚨TLN Webinar Series – Giving choice a chance: Assessment optionality in #PoliticalStudies #Education, with @jeremymoulton.bsky.social, University of York. Understanding the costs and benefits of assessment optionality. 📆 3 Dec, 1.30 - 3pm, online ➡️ Free and open to all

More Info here: easaonline.org/event/public... Zoom registration link here: nomadit-co-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Another day, another reminder that our university is undermining its gloabal standing. This time from none other than the Spanish ambassador to the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RMT members who work for Bidvest Noonan on the DLR cleaning contract have been on strike today, and yesterday, in a fight for company sick pay. Currently, only a terminal illness will trigger sick pay!

UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org

Thousands marching in the rain through London calling for an end to arms sales to Isrsel as the nuclear-armed state continues to kill Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

£1.8 billion extracted by private business since 2016, RMT report reveals Private rail companies have quietly extracted £1.8 billion from the railway in dividends since 2016, new RMT analysis reveals. rmtunion.org/3XU3lUB

Pro-Palestine students convicted of trespassing at their own university. 10 protesters were convicted of aggravated trespass. libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/pro...

I discussed with the police the @rmtunion.bsky.social's serious concerns about the increase in assaults on our railway This is at the same time as the British Transport Police's funding has been cut We need more investment in this vital public service

Interesting article in Morning Star The forgotten radicalism of Sir Richard Acland by Mat Coward www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/forg...

🚨 Routes maps - March for Palestine - 29 Nov The full route will go from Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly) to Whitehall. The accessible, step-free route will be meeting on Eagle Place (between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street), outside Natwest from 2pm. Maps: shorturl.at/begyB

HANDCUFFED PENSIONERS Arrests ongoing outside the Royal Courts of Justice as they protests peacefully against the proscribing of direct action group Palestine Action. This pensioner had his walking sticks removed and was handcuffed. Arrested under the Terrorism Act.

Arrests continuing outside London’s Royal Courts. “Since the ceasefire was announced, there has only been 8 days where Israel has not dropped bombs on Gaza. This is not a ceasefire… and our government is complicit. I will not be complicit.” Join us: wedonotcomply.org

“This will not make us safer. They are US fighter jets. All the money is going to the US. And the planes launch US nuclear bombs, so that means they are basically under Nato command, meaning they are under the US nuclear umbrella of Nato." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

It is Monday morning, and I will shortly be on my way back to Westminster. But today, something is different. We have announced that, for the first time since the 1990s, national rail fares will be frozen for a year - and millions of people up and down the country will see the benefit.

I know that cost-of-living pressures are still a reality for many people in Wolverhampton West, and transport costs are a significant part of that. So I am encouraged that Labour is taking this step to keep household costs down.

And remember, this is all part of our wider plan to rebuild Great British Railways, in public hands.

Join me in signing @pscupdates petition to Barclays, telling the bank that you're boycotting its services until it stops bankrolling Israel's atrocities against Palestinians: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/barclayspeti...

New Issue of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences 18.3 (Dec 2025): Effects of the Pandemic Crisis on European Higher Education Guest Editors: Amélia Veiga and Tim Seidenschnur www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Our branch report into SHU's finances calls for a public enquiry into decision making at the university. There may be sector-wide challenges but at SHU one of the issues is governance. The report is here: ucuhallam.org www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RMT warns of widespread welfare failures leaving women transport workers without safe toilet access Coinciding with UN World Toilet Day, RMT is highlighting inadequate welfare for provision for transport workers. rmtunion.org/47ZiM2t

🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨 We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November. Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action. @ucu.org.uk

Postdoctoral Researchers #ECPRMemberJobs 📅 Two-year contract 🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies ⌛ Monday 15 December buff.ly/hFG7uC0 #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

BREAKING: Tayo Aluko sings "we are not the terrorists" as he is arrested in Leeds for opposing genocide and the Palestine Action ban. He previously took direct action with Palestine Action against the Israeli weapons industry, before the group was proscribed.

RMT expresses condolences following loss of member aboard RFA Tidesurge Maritime union, RMT is deeply saddened to learn of the loss of one of our Royal Fleet Auxiliary members who was reported missing while serving onboard the RFA Tidesurge. rmtunion.org/4oLzXvA

RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament.

Have you seen the strike action this week?👍 Like and reshare as Robin from Waltham Forest NEU explains... #Solidarity #StrikeMap @strikemap.org @neunion.bsky.social @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social

One week to go until our conference, Stop Nuclear Expansion, How to Reverse the War Drive! See the full timetable, speakers, and how to register: https://cnduk.org/events/no-to-war-no-to-british-nuclear-expansion-invest-in-saving-lives-not-destroying-them-cnd-conference/

📢 Join CND Chair Tom Unterrainer, CND Vice-President Kate Hudson, and Belgian peace campaigner Ludo de Brabander at CND's conference workshop: Ukraine, Russia and NATO - How to stop the nuclear escalation! Register today: cnduk.org/events/no-to...

Solidarity on the Dundee Uni picket lines today @ducuuo.bsky.social #solidarity #NoCuts #WeAreTheUniversity ✊🩷💜🩷

After a truly awesome demo, acknowledgments are in order. First, thanks to the @uclucu.bsky.social branch, Chris Pritchard (one of our NEC reps), the Leicester District Trades Union, the DMU UCU branch @ucudmu.bsky.social, and UoN UCU branch for their solidarity. When we fight, we don't fight alone.

Outsourcing workers drives down pay, conditions and offers no company sick pay. RMT is demanding an end to rail outsourcing. On November 19, RMT is holding a day of action for everyone who’s had enough of outsourcing. Come hear their stories. Come add yours.

In defence of jobs and academic standards Jack Davidson explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield morningstaronline.co.uk/article/defe...

Dundee University staff begin 5-day strike morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dund...

This morning's protest at Wolverhampton University; which is hosting a conference sponsored by an Israeli Government Ministry and an Israeli academic institution complicit with normalising the illegal settler occupation. Though it seemed there were more protesters than attendees.

fascist Britain First activists being bus-ed into Wolverhampton; so counter-protest this Sat 11am outside Britannia by bus station

Want to find out how your voice can stop job cuts at the University of Dundee? Take the first step towards having influence on what happens to you next. Come along to our Stop The Jkb Cuts rally tomorrow at the Queen’s Hotel, 12:30-13:30pm. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

Confidence vote in our leaders is now open. Please vote yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/Universit...

Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...