In an unprecedented move, one reflective of the deeply unprecedented times at our university, UoN branches of three different unions (@UCU.org.uk, @unisonorg.uk, and Unite) have all successfully passed motions of no confidence in the Vice Chancellor and the entire executive board.

Roses are red, Lobsters have pincers

This is kinda how I've felt too. The students are saying they didn't get what they paid for which is 100% true without in any way being a critique of staff efforts or a suggestion we shld have ignored law + importantly, it's DRIVEN BY A PREDATORY LAW FIRM who are the actual villans, not the students

Across the UK, UCU branches are fighting job cuts and compulsory redundancies at Stirling, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Essex, Solent, Leicester, Nottingham and London Met. Same story: cuts, overwork, and attacks on education. We stand with every branch in dispute. ​

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

Please use alt text in images. 1> It increases accessibility for visually impaired users. 2> It improves search functionality. 3> It enables people to mute image-related content. 4> It reduces the frequency of scolding in replies.

I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

The good old days when shops didn't have doors, windows had flags mounted in them, the local bakers sold baguettes and we used decimal currency?

If anyone has any nice flatshare or lodger leads in Peckham/Myatts Fields/Camberwell/Brixton/Loughborough Junction please let me know. Excellent pal (M) looking for a place.

Matt is doing an excellent job here of convincing us that he is in absolutely no way bitter at all about his failure as an academic.. 😉

Packed workshop - "Building unity: how can unions be better?" Since 2008 real term pay has dropped, yet productivity has increases. The rich are getting, richer and we're getting poorer. Reform UK can grow in these conditions. TUs need to take on these arguments @togetheralliance.bsky.social

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The news that the search for MH370 is starting up again prompted me to reread this fascinating article from 2021. Really very readable and respectful discussion of the tragic mystery. A long read but worth it

Content warning: this story is absolutely disgusting. It is also very funny, though

Solidarity to Unite UCU members - shameful behaviour, particularly the victimisation of a H&S officer. UCU SMT need to stop this now. #HandsOffMarie

If you are undecided in the UCU elections, @seanawallis.bsky.social @regipilling.bsky.social for VP in HE and FE will do brilliant work.

I got mine last summer because my childhood medical records are AWOL so I thought why not just in case.

I spy with my little eye, @robinince.bsky.social 😀

🚨 Reform UK’s plan to scrap equality laws would fire the starting gun on a race to the bottom. UNISON warns that ditching protections would let bad employers act with impunity and drag the UK backwards on fairness and rights. unsn.uk/4cywGfU

Great ad. Though ironically BBC output would be 1000% better if they commissioned all of these. But please send this to all present day BBC execs as a reminder of what their job is.

Your starter for 10: as well as shutting down the regional meeting, what other role does this particular regional official have in this whole distasteful saga?

Color me woke as fuckkk!

I was scared enough by the spheres of cameras hanging down from the ceiling in my local Woolies in the '80s, this 😳

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

This is what it looks like when you refuse to tolerate trade union victimisation: voting YES and YES to defend a colleague. #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation

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

Real ale in a real pub with real candles 🍻

Ballot results are out! 71.47% in favour of strike action 73.44% in favour of action short of a strike 51.77% turnout

Sunday! Leicester! 6.30pm @ Duffy's! It's the first preview of the show I'll be touring this year. It's two years since I've taken a show on tour and I can't wait for you to see it. Listed as Sooz Kempner is Ugly, it's actually Sooz Kempner: Imposter. 🎟️ events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/sooz-...

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Vote @seanwallis13.bsky.social for UCU VP HE! youtu.be/U6ZXr9xnBMg

The world service really matters. It’s such an important voice available everywhere around the world.

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

I didn’t follow the context of Bangor earlier today, but this is deeply concerning. bsky.app/profile/gsoh...

BOOST OR QUOTE THIS! Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!

jolly good, but can we please have some more secure methods of doing 2FA? A code sent to email isn't quite as bad as SMS, but if your email is compromised, you're fucked. And while I'm at it, turn off user's reposts would be nice too.

unions, folks: they're real good

The tech firms embracing a 72-hour working week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #joinAUnion

It may be worth explaining a little more about what is happening at Southampton Solent. It's a story about a legal loophole and an employer seeking to exploit it to excuse itself from a basic principle - to maintain staff in the state-backed pension scheme that staff signed up to when they joined.

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

“Less protecting Peter Mandelson and his cronies and more protecting Southend campus.” Campuses are closing across the country. Communities are paying the price.

Calm it cat. You're not Alan Rickman at the end of Die Hard.

#beersky anyone know of a UK supplier of Einstok Wee Heavy? (it's for a thing so I can't substitute other similar/better brews)

Went to dinner in Highland Park with kids1&2. Good vibes.

Your daughter deserves better - we all do.

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