Day two of picketing today! We will once again be at the north, west, and south entrances of UP and the Derby rd entrance of Jubilee campus from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Come show your support, stand in solidarity, and learn all about what and why we are fighting! #StopTheCuts

Absolutely insulting that our own union is trying the dirties trick to get workers to declare participation in order to deduct 100% of their wages for Action Short of Strike. Thanks for making it 100 times harder to challenge that if and when university managers implement those tricks.

We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa

Who’d have thought that UCU senior management would look at the punitive strategies used by university management in local disputes and think, 'Ah, that’s a brillitant way to attempt some strike-breaking'?

Thanks to everyone who’s already donated to our fundraisers for incoming Palestinian students from Gaza! We’re halfway to our goal in just a few days. Reposting the links in this thread for anyone who had trouble accessing them. 🍉🍉🍉

🆘🍉 As the genocide continues, a small number of Palestinian students will evacuate the Gaza Strip for the UK, including four due to join us at Goldsmiths for a.a. 25/26. Israeli authorities are forcing them to leave all they have behind, and they need our practical solidarity. Please donate!

Powerful statement from BLM UK on the rise of Britain’s far right and Saturday’s march, including notice of an important public meeting on 28 October ukblm.org/news/defeat-...

Solidarity to these amazing comrades!

🚨🚨🚨 GUCU’s banner will be here on Wednesday 16/09! Our excellent exec member Natacha will be talking from the stage about resisting attacks on trans lives in HE and beyond. Please join us if you can!

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:

🔥 Third ballot win in 18 months: 76% YES on 77% turnout for @uniteucu.bsky.social members! UCU Management’s response? Threats & intimidation 🤦

Ballot papers drop today for local industrial action to defend jobs at the University of Sheffield against redundancy and further workload pressures. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...

🧵1/ Our branch just passed a motion condemning the stealth closure of the MA in Black British History. We did this to demand accountability — for the future of the MA and for the College’s promises on racial justice and equality. shorturl.at/gIUVG

Goldsmiths wants to use fire and rehire tactics to push out 3 valued Art Dept staff — ending contracts, then cycling new people into the same work — breaching their own HR policy. We passed a motion demanding reinstatement & respect for staff rights. Read here: goldsmithsucu.org/2025/07/31/e...

We stand with those resisting intimidation. We reject this crackdown on political speech. We call on unions, students, and staff to mobilise in solidarity. 🛑 Protest the NUS Lead and Change Conference: 📍 29–31 July 📣 National demo: 29 July, 12pm #NotMyNUS #FreePalestine #DefendStudentVoices

Over 70 elected SU officers are facing threats, bans & intimidation from NUS leadership after signing an open letter condemning the NUS’s silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, UK institutional complicity & the suppression of student activism. #NotMyNUS 🧵👇

We stand in solidarity with staff at Drumbeat Outreach. Cuts to this vital, neurodivergent-led autism service in Lewisham will harm children, families & communities. We ask @lewisham.gov.uk & @brendadacres.bsky.social to halt the cuts & meet with staff! Full motion: goldsmithsucu.org/2025/07/16/s...

Our exec committee is appalled to see nonviolent direct action in the face of genocide treated as terrorism. We condemn the government’s authoritarian attempt to ban @palaction.bsky.social, as well as the government's ongoing support for genocide. goldsmithsucu.org/2025/07/02/e...

We stand with @newcastleucu.bsky.social in their fight against redundancies. We have just passed a motion to support our comrades as they supported us so generously last year. Solidarity! goldsmithsucu.org/2025/06/11/s... Job cuts harm both students & staff.

Sugar, colonialism & workers' resistance in the Philippines; join the final screening tomorrow (Weds!) & hear from our comrades in sibling union, ALL-Up Academic Employees lu.ma/8tlla63p?loc...

Our @unitetheunion.bsky.social comrades are fighting an unjust workplace in the face of @ucu.org.uk's own brand of union busting antics - scab labour &policing auto replies! Inviting all members to sign the Open Letter to UCU Trustees & NEC in solidarity: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us for the Screening of: For the Sake of Sugarcane (2005) A documentary on the struggle of millworkers, farm workers & people of Hacienda Luisita, Philippines. Followed by a Q&A with Carl Marc Ramota and Rommel Rodriguez from the All-UP Academic Employees Union. lu.ma/8tlla63p

Join the cross-branch @ucu.org.uk meeting tomorrow to strategize the Trade Dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over HE Funding. 🗓️ Tues 3 June 🕕 6-7pm 🔗 lu.ma/zs6bklhz The strategy for how the union proceeds has to come from members.

NEXT WEEK! Join the cross-branch meeting to discuss how we challenge the funding system through a trade dispute and make the strategy effective. Tuesday, 3 June, 6pm, Zoom lu.ma/zs6bklhz

Dismayed &frustrated by the announcement of cuts from our VC, who has sought to enact cost saving that has been cruel, ill thought out, unnecessary & harmful to members, students, institution &wider community. We are prepared to mount a powerful rebuttal www.timeshighereducation.com/news/goldsmi...

Moving towards a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education! UCU Congress voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the Higher Education funding crisis. Motion & further info: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... JOIN to discuss next steps 3 June, 6pm: lu.ma/zs6bklhz 🧵

Our marvelous Zara Dinnen in speaking at #UCU2025 about the motion to move towards a Trade union dispute with Secretary of State for Education over funding. All our employers are destroying careers & disciplinary knowledge in reference to the volatility of finances. Let's solve that volatility.

Thank you to all the UCU members who came to our fringe last night - and sorry we ended up with standing room only (again!). Our members absolutely appreciate your ongoing support, especially the unusually small handful required to work at #UCU2025 in somewhat trying circumstances. #Solidarity

Next Screening is 📽️ Foragers (2022) by Jumana Manna with Goldsmiths for Palestine, 28 May, depicting dramas around practices of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor &meditative pace. Fundraising for Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund lu.ma/3g4eodtg

📢 venue change for tomorrow 📢 we will now be holding the pay-what-you-can screening @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social in Prof Stuart Hall Building, lower ground 01. Join us to learn more about women's resistance in Sudan 🇸🇩 & raise money for vital grassroots campaigns

Heartfelt thanks for the amazing solidarity from the speakers from @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social and @qmucu.bsky.social #MayDay2025 #ThriveNotSurvive

An employer who gets scab labour to cover for strike action and polices workers' auto replies. Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social on six weeks of strike!

Tomorrow our members are taking strike action to say no to job cuts! 💪 Join our picket lines from 8:30am, as well as various teach outs from 10am, and a Demo on the SU Concourse from Midday. 📣

Join us for a Solidarity Screening 📽️ Heroic Bodies (2022) by Sara Suliman, followed by an online Q&A with the director. A film about the Sudanese Women’s struggle. Fri 16 May, 6.30-9pm,RHB cinema. We will discuss urgent forms of resistance by Sudanese in response to displacement. lu.ma/c52jnqny

We will be joining @uniteucu.bsky.social May Day rally outside @ucu.org.uk offices today at noon. UCU we demand you meet with your workers and address urgent issues of this toxic workplace now!

📣 May Day Rally 📣 We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London. All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace. #ThriveNotSurvive

And there it is. A shocking, appalling, and deeply disappointing announcement of an entirely unnecessary move from the university. But this is exactly why we have already started organising .

​HE is in crisis. Join an online cross branch @ucu.org.uk meeting 10 April 6-7:30pm BST to develop a strategy for a dispute with Sec of State for Ed to tackle funding @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuessex.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=Av7h7B

Why do we strike? We’ll let our members give you some reasons why.

It gets worse… Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes. In what trade union world is this acceptable?

Our employer is editing our members’ out-of-office replies to remove reference to our strike action. They are choosing to censor us rather than talk to us.

Fight rampant casualisation at universities by supporting our comrades @iwgbunion.bsky.social fighting for in-housing now! actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

We deeply regret our strike action which begins today in our Campaign for A Safe and Professional Workplace. With our dispute now a year old we remain resolute that the toxic bullying culture, racism and victimisation that our members and officers are experiencing must end. uniteucu.wordpress.com

Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social on their third of twenty escalating days strike action, in their ongoing disputes with @ucu.org.uk over an unsafe and racist workplace as well as pay. Support our comrades fighting toxic management by signing the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Solidarity to comrades @uea-ucu.bsky.social on their pickets today #SaveUEA

📢A New Strategy for Higher Education: How to Have a Trade Dispute over Funding in Higher Education📢 lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... Join a cross-branch @ucu.org.uk online meeting to discuss a new national industrial strategy to fight for the future of HE: Thurs 10 April 6-7:30pm BST. @qmucu.bsky.social

#WelfareNotWarfare National Day Of Action March 26th 2025 London DPAC action Details dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welf...

Members & friends, if you want to travel together tomorrow morning, meet outside the main entrance to Richard Hoggart Building to leave at 11:30am 🇵🇸

If you're being approached by SOAS to do marking, be aware that the SOAS tutors are on a marking boycott & you're being asked to scab mark (managers don't feel they should be transparent about it) hardship fund: gofund.me/71598ef7&sa=... template motion: docs.google.com/document/d/1...