2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have been told that they are "at risk". The UCU branch is fighting back. 🌟 Rush solidarity to @uonucu.bsky.social! 🌟 Donate to their fighting fund at uonucu.org 🌟 Come to the activist meeting on Tuesday in this thread! 👇

Please sign and share this petition - c.org/Wh2NJg5dpc. Prevent mass course closures at yet another apparently financially stable university. Solidarity and strength to @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social! @ucu.org.uk

Men and folks working outside the Russell Group are still under-represented in my responses, and I'm particularly keen to hear from you. (I mean, I'm particularly keen to hear from everyone, but it would be nice to have a semi-representative sample.)

URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗘 Guest Speakers: * Lopa Leach, President, University of Nottingham UCU * Tom Hickey, Convention for Higher Education 2016-17 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟵 𝗠𝗮𝘆, 𝟲𝗽𝗺 Zoom: bit.ly/UCUSM_org Build Solidarity with MABbing Branches Build a Grassroots Political Campaign to Save HE

Great to see Nottingham University UCU President @lopa.bsky.social speaking at the @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social meeting on Tuesday night.

@uonucu.bsky.social . Thank you Sean for picking up on this existential struggle we are going through. Thanks for alerting @vickyblake.bsky.social ✊️

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗘 Guest Speakers: * Lopa Leach, President, University of Nottingham UCU * Tom Hickey, Convention for Higher Education 2016-17 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟵 𝗠𝗮𝘆, 𝟲𝗽𝗺 Zoom: bit.ly/UCUSM_org Build Solidarity with MABbing Branches Build a Grassroots Political Campaign to Save HE

The UK HE sector is in a financial crisis. Those who work in it did not cause it. Those who study in it did not cause it. But if we want universities to survive, we will have to fight. Come to the meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm👇 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/two-fif...

I particularly like Mr Free Speech Vandal, whose immediate reaction to something he doesn't agree with is to climb on the van and try to sabotage the feed. Relax mate, the Met have you on their face recognition cameras.

Last strike day tomorrow!

Open Online Activist Meeting to Save HE Tuesday 19 May, 6pm Zoom: bit.ly/UCUSM_org

The Select Committee has finally said what UCU @ucu.org.uk has been saying. The HE sector crisis is driven by the Government High Tuition Fee Market Policy from 2010. 3 years of cuts has made the situation worse. What will we do about it? 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟲𝗽𝗺 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟵 𝗠𝗮𝘆 bit.ly/UCUSM_org

Open Online Activist Meeting to Save HE Tuesday 19 May, 6pm Zoom: bit.ly/UCUSM_org

“Urging universities to adopt policies of ‘institutional neutrality’ can have the effect of stifling institutional action, as well as teaching and research on contentious issues; and can also impede the wider social role that universities play.” 🖊️ Gavin Schwartz-Leeper https://ow.ly/1grz50Yi8GY

Important survey on impact of HE redundancies. It's really important that APM staff fill this in too. @uonucu.bsky.social

After a massive turn out in the indicative ballot, we're moving to make it formal. On March 2nd, our formal ballot for another round of industrial action against Future Nottingham, compulsory redundancies, and course closures opens. If you are a member, make sure you vote! Let your voice be heard!

Read our statement on the announcement of 200 jobs to be lost at the University of Dundee. “DUCU believes that the timing of exits proposed in the VS scheme will cause massive disruption at a very sensitive time…when exams, marking, & processing of grades are taking place. sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/

Today London Met collegaues, students and supporters were out in force againt vicious cuts. London Met has a proud history of educating working class students, many from the local community and many who are the first in their family to go to university. We will keep fighting ✊

Remember in 2005 seeing the agencies spending tens of millions of £s building the campus for the local community to improve access to HE. There is something badly wrong with how HE is beimg funded by successive governments in the Uk for this investment to go to waste so soon

Save the Cambridge Vet School march today morning in Cambridge with some splendid signs savethevetschool.co.uk @camvetschool.bsky.social

In the end, as the professoriate collapses, we will be speaking to those precious few who really want to learn and think and reason, who are told every day by our vacuous corporate overlords that the life of the mind is for chumps. The self-destructive stupidity that AI celebrates hurts us all.

We're really trying to avoid more industrial action here, folks...! @tucneyh.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @danhollandnews.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @chionwurah.bsky.social

This is good, and Hannah Spencer sounds driven. But what really makes this article is the inclusion of one of John Harris’s typically outstanding short films, this one about Gorton and Denton, from the ‘Anywhere but Westminster’ series. Watch it. @johnharris1969.bsky.social

With our current mandate ending, today sees the end of our current strike action. Our new ballot over TU victimisation closes on Wednesday. Our Safety Officer remains under threat and our employer has made no real effort to find a resolution. We don’t want to have to strike again. #HandsOffMarie

‘Horror on a shocking scale’: resurgent US movement calls for end to family ICE detention

Unions enforce your employment rights. Unions can help if you’re discriminated against or mistreated by your employer. Reform doesn’t want you to have that help. They don’t care how badly you’re treated at work. They’re taking the piss out of you. You should mind. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

When I said that we need "Higher Education for humans to control AI" I was not joking. Students that cheat using systems like 'Einstein' (sic) can be stopped. (Hint: HE is not a Learning Management System.) Radical solutions are called classrooms, vivas & paper exams. seanwallis.uk/2025/12/31/t...

Photos from today, at London Met rally to defend jobs and students - including delivering the 800+ student petition at the Vice Chancellor's office where, symbolically, noone was in!

Photos from today, including delivering the 800+ student petition at the Vice Chancellor's office where, symbolically, noone was in!

An excellent article summarising the strength of feeling on campus against the VS scheme and its timing, at the University of Dundee. thejutejournal.com/2026/02/22/i...

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

Big legal win!!!

READ ALL ABOUT IT @georgeclarke.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk The 'latest offer' from management @northumbriauni.bsky.social @andylong6.bsky.social offers no protections for hard-working staff: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With a crushing sense of inevitability. Thousands - literally thousands - arrested, people imprisoned for months. All for - optics?

This was so obviously wrong, you do wonder what government was trying to achieve with a couple of months of intimidation. (Giftlink for non-subscribers) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Not only are we on strike to demand @ucu.org.uk stop its year-long campaign of trade union victimisation, but we also vote again to make clear we are taking a stand. The TU movement is united on one matter: you do not act unlawfully to one of our own. #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation

THIS IS WHAT A UNION LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT SOLIDARITY LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT STANDING UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT LOOKS LIKE. IGNORE AT YOUR PERIL!

Staff at Truro and Penwith College will strike on Monday 23 February. Management imposed a 2% pay award, half the level recommended by the AoC - thats a real-terms pay cut. Fair pay. Manageable workloads. Proper time for students.

Government decision to proscribe Palestine action was unlawful, high court judges rule. Huge victory for those opposing genocide. Huge wake up call for the Labour government.

It says a lot about the state of UK universities that @birminghamucu.bsky.social have had to negotiate over "recognition that union reps should not face detriment for union work". It also tells us that all who work in unis need to be in a union. #JoinAUnion #heartunionsweek ❤️unions

THREE strike ballots in universities in Scotland closing next week - that’s 3️⃣ If you’re a member in Aberdeen, Heriot Watt or Stirling universities make sure you post those last minute ballot papers 📨📮✅✊ #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

We're still facing 400+ job losses, the loss of a campus, the closure of our foundation year department, and many more departments cut to the bone. Please sign our petition to help stop the cuts, save jobs, and defend our students' education!

The court has spoken. Counter-terror powers must not be used to undermine democratic rights. Full statement from @drjogrady.bsky.social

Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture. A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to. Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.

Just a few of the incredible scenes on our pickets and at our joint rally with @unison.org.uk - thanks to all our members and supporters! See you all on Monday ✊

Stand with Minnesota – Stand Up to Farage Regi Pilling and Sean Wallis We can’t say we’ve not been warned. The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ‘Immigration and Customs Enforcement’ (ICE) agents have shocked people across the world. ICE has terrorised communities from LA to Minneapolis…

This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12

Every word of @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social thread + this point especially. Why is our own union behaving like this in its capacity as an employer? Why are elected democratic bodies prevented from having the basic discussions about solidarity we ask of everyone else when our members are threatened?

Branch meeting - no new details on the merger with Greenwich. It's expected to happen on 1st August 2026. We want to see assurances of no compulsory redundancies as a result of the merger. Our negotiators will be pushing for this.