🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 🔥 Two week ballot window 🔥 75% turnout 🔥 73% YES to strike action 🔥 81% YES to ASOS Our members will not tolerate victimisation and won’t be intimidated. UCU staff are not the enemy. It’s beyond time for the GS to talk to us. #HandsOffMarie

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

Over 100 attendees at our rally last night and another solid picket at the @ucu.org.uk North West Regional Office today ✊🪧 #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation

Unite against TU Victimisation @Unitetheunion.bsky.social doesn't tolerate the victimisation of its reps by employers. Today our members in the North West are showing what solidarity looks like. It's time UCU ended the victimisation of Marie, our Health & Safety Officer. #Strike #HandsOffMarie

Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at @sheffielducu Punishment is not negotiation. ✊

Sheffield merely the latest university to claim that legally withdrawing your labour should actually be postponing your labour, and punishing people further. Here’s how strikes work: 1. You legally stop working for a period of time. You don’t get paid. 2. Win or lose you go back to work.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... You can donate to our strike fund here ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/hardship-fund/

Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

📢 Joint Rally Report: Speeches from the Rally On Monday we held a joint rally with Sheffield UCU. Here's Bob Jeffery, Hallam UCU rep, explaining why we are in dispute with our employer. youtu.be/hzbaL2jDsfQ #SaveSheffieldHallam

RMT opposes Driver Only Operation declaring it unsafe Rail union, RMT today laid bare the safety critical importance of a second person onboard train services after a dispute erupted on East West Rail. rmtunion.org/3K72MUh

This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system. Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees. 48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

📢 Day Four: Resilience in Full Display! Another strong showing on our picket lines! Our fight continues for no compulsory redundancies, fair working conditions, our dignity and our future. Solidarity is our strength. We will not be silenced. #SaveSheffieldHallam

89% of our eligible members voted YES on a 65% turnout. It’s time for action to address pay erosion, spiralling workloads and failed bargaining arrangements. The sector deserves better. Proud of our branch!

I am on strike this week, in support of colleagues placed at risk of compulsory redundancy. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... If you a student and want to know more/how to support the strike, see here: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a... @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Back at the picket line again today. Here’s why: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk #SheffieldUCU #strike

Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!

📢 Solidarity Continues: Day Two Strike Momentum Our strike continues with powerful momentum. We're united, standing strong and sending a clear message. Management must listen. Join us on the picket lines. Every voice matters! #SaveSheffieldHallam

A university administrator wrote last summer that my team’s research on forced labor in the Uyghur Region of China and student recruitment in China were “untenable bedfellows.” Today on the picket line at Sheffield Hallam University…

Even more petitions popping up. Doesn't make for a great endorsement, does it? Please sign, spread the word, and help us push back against the constant undermining of our university: c.org/MwqdpHLCnZ c.org/Q6pTJXz87F c.org/sGNYk5yGpM

📢 Solidarity in Action: Day One Strike Highlights Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!! #SaveSheffieldHallam

🚨 STRIKE ACTION BEGINS TODAY 🚨 Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change. ✊ No Compulsory Redundancies ✊ Protect Academic Conditions ✊ Restore Career Progression ✊ Ensure Transparent Management ucuhallam.org

⏰ The 13th is the last safe day to vote! Hear from our FE member on why you must vote YES and why your voice matters now more than ever. #VoteYES #NewDealForFE

The clock is ticking and FE colleagues deserve better! We are loosing FE teachers every year and it must stop now. Vote YES

The clock is ticking! Each and every ballot paper returned gives us the strength to keep going and get the settlement that we, our students and our communities deserve. Vote YES ✅ for a #NewDealForFE

“Pie in the sky thinking.” The government’s V-level plan won’t work without investing in college staff pay. Further education needs funding, not fantasy. #VLevels #NewDealforFE www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Be like your social media admin (me) and return your ballot! VOTE YES ✅

Job insecurity, discrimination, unsafe working conditions, and unmanageable workloads are all barriers to good mental health. Take time out for yourself! Look after your mental health

Pay erosion in FE makes all of our jobs harder. Dedicated colleagues leave our workplaces every year and we have to do more with less. Vote YES ✅ Academic staff 🤝 Support and Professional Services staff

The Countdown has started Ballot starts next Monday, 13 October: VOTE YES to put pressure on the employers to negotiate the settlement we need in FE VOTE YES for a New Deal for FE www.ucu.org.uk/article/1419...

Ballot papers are landing! Ballots open on the 13th! Vote YES for fair pay, safe workloads and binding national agreements. This is our chance to win. #VoteYes #NewDealForFE

The #UCU #NewDeal4FE ballot opens on Monday 13 October. What's the dispute about?

🗳 From 13 Oct, members in around 100 FE branches will be balloted for industrial action. The AoC’s 4% offer fails to fix low pay, unmanageable workloads or broken bargaining. VOTE YES for a #NewDealForFE 💪 ✅ Fair pay ✅ Manageable workloads ✅ Binding national bargaining

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...

“To truly deliver a new deal for FE, the AoC needs to come forward with a package of measures. UCU members demanding fundamental change are prepared to take action to achieve our aims.” @DrJoGrady on the 4% pay recommendation feweek.co.uk/staff-pay-re...

Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 ✅ strike action: 76% ✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80% ✅ turnout: 77% ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages." Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all. #ReclaimUCU

Humans and dogs, working together. You love to see it.

😡 Imposition, not negotiated agreement 😡 Victimisation of reps 😡 Refusal to engage with the recognised union ☣️ All signs of a toxic organisational culture & not what we should see from a union employer. Shame on @ucu.org.uk whose staff deserve so much better uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/1...

"We value the work that all of the staff at UCU provide to our branches, and expect them to have access to the same fair work practices that we fight for as a union." Open letter for all @ucu.org.uk members to sign in support of @uniteucu.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Bradford UCU votes YES. Staff are backing strike action to stop £16m cuts that put 300+ jobs and key courses on the line. Enough is enough. It’s time for real accountability. #UCU #StoptheCuts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At #UCU2025 we passed motions to reaffirm our commitment to trans rights. We’ll keep fighting for inclusive spaces, supportive policies and real solidarity. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #UCU2025 #UnionPower

#UCU2025 congress has passed a motion to prepare to raise a formal dispute with the Education Secretary over the devastating funding crisis in higher education. Our message is clear: if Labour won’t intervene, we will. #UCU2025 #ProtectEducationNow #UnionPower #Post16Crisis #HigherEducation

Uplifting turnout at our strike rally earlier, with added support from a #MayDay2025 meet-up in Scotland. No sign of our employer, needless to say. #ThriveNotSurvive

#LDNMayDay2025 🌹 Solidarity forever. #MayDay #MayDay2025

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Sign sign sign! Our jobs are on the line!

🕯️ Today is International Workers Memorial Day. We remember every worker lost to unsafe conditions. We recommit to fighting for safe and fair workplaces. Remember the dead. Fight for the living. #IWMD2025 #UCU

Thank you to all the amazing UCU branches who’ve been solid & vocal in supporting us. And huge #solidarity to those taking their own action. UCU isn’t one person, it’s its branches, its activists & its members. We want to work for & support you; being unable to properly do so is beyond upsetting.

We were proud to stand alongside the trans, non-binary and gender diverse communities in York on Saturday. Their fight is our fight! 🏳️‍⚧️