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! 🏳️‍⚧️

Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs. An attack on one is an attack on all! Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed! We are *all* the university!

When, some months ago,  we first posted our members’ testimonies - lived experiences of working for UCU - our employer’s only response was a demand they be removed. No contrition, shame or concern for their staff: just an anger we’d shared them. #UniteVoices uniteucu.wordpress.com/campaign-cam...

UCU stands with trans people, today and every day. The Supreme Court ruling is not just wrong, it’s dangerous. We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity

Out-of-office We are not currently at work due to taking part in escalating strike action called by Unite, the trade union for UCU staff, over our Campaign for a Safe & Professional Workplace Culture. Our strikes this week run for 3 days from 14 to 16 April. #UniteVoices

Our members have a lot they want you to know. #UniteVoices

In the second wave of significant staff cuts and course closures, #ucu will be demanding #nocompulsoryredundancies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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 .

Out-of-office We are not currently at work due to taking part in escalating strike action called by Unite, the trade union for UCU staff, over our Campaign for a Safe & Professional Workplace Culture. Our strikes this week run for 4 days from 7 to 10 April. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/u...

I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU* Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218... 1/7

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.

A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk

Our response to Labour’s cruel and self-defeating austerity statement:

Great turnout today on Day 1 of our strike against pay theft at Sheffield Hallam. Join us tomorrow, 8.30-11.30, at Hallam Square & let's make our voices heard!

🚨 STRIKE! Sheffield Hallam UCUbranch are on strike on 24th&25th March to challenge the university's unjust pay freeze. Join us at Hallam Square, 8.30-11.30. Let's make our voices heard!

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee. Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee. Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632 youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

Our wonderful colleague Usha explains how the current financial crisis and proposed 632 FTE job cuts is affecting her right now. Many colleagues feel the same way. The "recovery plan" needs to be scrapped. It's had a devastating effect on staff and students. #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE