“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.

Outside the High Court on the Strand, Central London, Friday 13 February 2026. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Whose union just went and smashed the ballot? Why, @ducu.bsky.social! Let's reclaim our time and fight for decent working conditions ✊🤗

Results are in regarding our local ballot. 63.3% of voters are prepared to take IA consisting of a strike action, and 75.6% are prepared to take ASOS. Return rate was 53.1%, comfortably clear of the Tory anti-trade union minimum.

"Taking responsibility" apparently means its someone else's fault.

Parts of University of Dundee’s action plan in response to the Gillies report are not being implemented. There are no available Court agendas for the last 8 Court meetings (5 under the new chair), and no approved minutes available for 7 of these meetings. Court is not transparent. Why?

Britons' right to protest is under threat like never before. If you value it, speak up now | Imran Khan

Post by Tuesday at the latest!!

Solidarity to all colleagues at Northumbria University!

Ahead of the 10 February Certification Officer hearing, I’ve written about why Ewan McGaughey and I took this route. This is a regulatory process, not a court case. Ewan and I will represent ourselves. UCU has hired a King’s Counsel. vickyblakeucu.uk/202... /1

Lol it’s obvious. The core role of universities is to save money for private companies by doing their employee training and product research for them. Simples.

The biggest upheaval in UK science policy since the 1980s is currently underway, with the creation of a much more direct & explicit link between UK government priorities & £9bn/ yr of R&D funded by the agency UKRI My attempt to explain & set in historical context softmachines.org?p=3252

It's #HeartUnions week! If you care about the climate, join a union. ❤️ www.cacctu.org.uk/heartunions