⚠️⚠️⚠️ important updates from @UlsterUni regarding Storm Amy and campus closures Also see your emails for important advice / updates from the CPO and People + Culture

With Israeli forces aggressively boarding the humanitarian flotilla and kidnapping Irish citizens, it's time for us all to us a local protest 👇

@nujofficial.bsky.social and BDTC meeting on the surveillance of Journalists and why this matters to us all forms.gle/wr5EB8cuNTMq...

@nujofficial.bsky.social and BDTC meeting on the surveillance of Journalists and why this matters to us all forms.gle/wr5EB8cuNTMq...

If the shark in Jaws was a university manager 👇

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

Micro management. Coming to a university near you soon... @ulsteruni.bsky.social

March against genocide Mid-Ulster. This Sunday, 28th September

Thank you for your solidarity @umucu.bsky.social @ucu-ulster.bsky.social @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social @cardiffucu.bsky.social @northantsucu.bsky.social Nottingham Trent UCU Kingston University UCU University of York UCU

Disastrous. Our @ucu.org.uk members in prison education do amazing work. What even is this government doing.

Thanks to all who came out in today to support the protests for Palestine Following this week's UN declaration that Israel's actions in Palestine are a genocide, we urge @ulsteruni.bsky.social to use it's institutional influence and join with student & staff voices to oppose the genocide

Our reps along with comrades from @ucuatqub.bsky.social had a productive meeting today with Minister @caoimhearchibald.bsky.social around sustainable and fair funding for HE in the North Many thanks to the minister for taking the time to meet with @ucu.org.uk reps

Today - along with colleagues from Ulster University UCU and regional @ucu.org.uk representatives - we had a productive meeting with @caoimhearchibald.bsky.social, the Minister for the Economy in the Executive, about a sustainable and accountable Higher Education sector for Northern Ireland.

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

Our collective voice as a movement is @tuc.org.uk, representing millions of working people. Brilliant to have GS @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social backing UCU members ✊ The whole movement is behind us. #WeAreTheUniversity

Joint statement from @ucu.org.uk , @unitetheunion.bsky.social , @unison.org.uk, @gmb.org.uk & @eisunion on @ucea-leadership.bsky.social 's insulting pay offer All staff in HE have had enough of attacks on Pay, Jobs + Terms & Conditions in HE and will be balloting together for Industrial Action.

No staff consultation No student consultation Yet the @officestudents "welcomes" this move..... 🧐🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Paul Nowak, @tuc.org.uk General Secretary, stands with UCU members. In October we ballot over pay, agreements, and jobs. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity #ucu

Important that it is not *only* about pay. The local disputes, where colleagues are organising against redundancies and worsening conditions (including: fire & rehire...) are part of this larger dispute. #UKHE

We will be balloting in October! Remember, our dispute with the employers is three-fold: pay, protection of agreements and defence of jobs. Any ballot paper will have all three. We all know these three issues are intrinsically linked. We know we need to fight them together. #WeAreTheUniversity

Members! Another ballot for national action is headed your way. This dispute is focused on supporting and protecting members by tackling three key issues: 1. Pay 2. Protection of Agreements 3. Defence of Jobs Make sure your voice is heard and cast your vote soon! #StopTheCuts

The upcoming ballot isn't just about pay UCU demands are around protection of jobs + Ts&Cs 1.Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points 2.Protection of national agreements on T&C's 3.A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects

Students and Staff are the university - not VCS on grotesque salaries while -frontline staff have been subjected to years of pay degradation -students have suffered years of declining learning conditions #wearetheuniversity

Breaking news🚨⚠️ @ucu.org.uk will be balloting for industrial action in responses to @ulsteruni.bsky.social representatives in @ucea-leadership.bsky.social insulting pay offer of 1.4% = another pay cut VCs claim there is no money, yet their behaviour this year would suggest otherwise...

UCU member Will Nelson and his partner Kayleigh were among those who tragically lost their lives in Lisbon this week. Will was popular and much loved by all who knew him. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this awful time.

Nigel Farage is not on the side of working people.

UCU President Elect (HE) @dyfrigjones.bsky.social warns that Labour’s response to Home Office threats against international students is “a political stunt with little substance.” 👉 “Aping Reform’s policies is a dead end, it drives core Labour supporters away.”

In celebration of the new Lego store in Victoria Square, Open Week @ulsteruni.bsky.social and the Lego set trend on Social Media..... 👇

“This is an attack on international students, nothing to do with visa overstays and everything to do with apeing Reform.” Our GS, @drjogrady.bsky.social International students are vital to our campuses, economy and communities. Govt must stop scapegoating. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"Strategy Away Day" Season 2025..... 🤪🙈😫

This is giving @ucea.bsky.social vibes... Worryingly a Greggs has recently opened up across the street from @ulsteruni.bsky.social 😬🙈

Remember when a certain VC referred to his vision for a certain university as "a skills factory"? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/easy-ea...

Here goes my vote for strike action at the University of Sheffield. When your management treats staff & students as disposable commodities, it's your duty, even more than your right, to respond. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk #sheffield #university #workersrights

The culture in @ulsteruni.bsky.social summed up....

Our General Secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social has written to David Lammy demanding the FCDO urgently evacuates *all* Palestinian students with British university places from Gaza.   The British government must act now – to help Palestinian students and end its complicity in Israel's genocide.

Union victory at Liverpool 👏 Industrial action has won a fairer deal on hybrid working at the University of Liverpool. Solidarity does work ✊ www.ucu.org.uk/article/1415...