Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics? It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage Not in our name. Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

I'll be in Manchester on October 3rd at 6:30pm with Wu Tsang at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social. Thanks to the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture and the Centre for New Writing for co-sponsoring. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-in-a-...

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Reform party will eventually come after citizens, with parents who were born abroad, like myself. My friends and I have had this discussion for some time. Make no joke about it, if they get into power they will need to continue to enrage the British voting public, they need chaos to thrive.

My inaugural lecture for Northumbria University, State of Play: A History of Playful Learning in Ten Video Games, will be on 15 October 2025 online and in-person. All welcome. Guest appearance by everyone's favourite badger and drinks somewhere afterwards. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

This funding system doesn’t work for anyone, it is dependent on putting students in years of debt and on staff’s job insecurity. Information about moving towards a dispute with the Secretary of State: www.universityrankandfile.org.uk/campaigns

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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

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

Paging Nathan Fielder: idea for Season 3 of Rehearsal. The launch of @yourparty.bsky.social

Your Party developments are super worrying. Solidarity with @zarahsultana.bsky.social

After 40 interviews, Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaks about his partner, Richie, on #Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Refreshing moment of humanity in the current race to be the most divisive and cruel; more of that on tomorrow’s edition, no doubt… 👋🏾 @vicderbyshire.bsky.social

See some of you at 5pm at the anti Trump rally. Meanwhile, spoke to the Guardian 👇🏼

Another 12 more UCU branches have signed (so far) today! uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u... We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.

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In London, hate will never win.

Wes Streeting is making the NHS make around 100k vital staff redundant and the £1billion redundancy cost has to be paid out of the existing NHS budget.

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

UCU has been fighting employers' efforts to make 100% pay deductions for Action Short of Strike legal through practice since 2019. We're not stopping now that our own UCU Senior Management is replicating the same worst practice. Much solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social.

We explain how these 100% deductions for Action Short of Strike are a legal grey area, and how workers' are made to organise against the attempts to impose and legalise them here: qmucu.org/2023/05/18/l...

For the full list of signatories to the statement see uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

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:

25+ @ucu.org.uk branches support @uniteucu.bsky.social workers and ask @drjogrady.bsky.social to stop undermining the basic #union principles! @manmetucu.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social #Solidarity! 🏳️🔍✊🏾

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

#Starmer welcomes war criminals to No 10. Hope all you @teamlabouruk.bsky.social apologists are feeling proud. youtube.com/shorts/5otxQ...

Keir Starmer called me and the Green Party "Plastic Progressives." My response:

A keynote to language the heartbreak and failure, the work of living with genocide #BERA2025 We are humbled by your response, tears, plans for action & your standing ovation. History is being made #GazaMatters gla.ac.uk/research/az/un…

It has long been known that Mandelson remained close to Epstein even after he was convicted of sex offences. He shouldn't have been appointed in the first place, and it is very clear that the Prime Minister must sack him immediately. We either stand with victims or we don’t.

No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain. The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services. That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.

There is no trade-off between pay and jobs. Don't let the employers fool you otherwise. This dispute is on three things: 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 #WeAreTheUniversity

We've had a staff briefing at Kent from our acting VC and we don't really know any further than has been reported. This is the beginning of a process that we've been told will be transparent. There were lots of questions but no answers yet. Talk to your colleagues. We are stronger together.

"An injury to one is an injury to all" Will @usdawunion.bsky.social talk to @jogrady.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk leadership about their punitive treatment of @uniteucu.bsky.social, especially on withholding pay for asos? Cross-union solidarity? For info: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

Brighton is the place to be for trade union conversations this week with #TUC2025! Hoping that while you're there, you could question the replication of employers' union-busting tactics by UCU's senior management against Unite members, @tuc.org.uk @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social? Cross-union solidarity

Hey @carladenyer.bsky.social As a proud Green, Can you ask our @ucu.org.uk senior leaders why they are weaponising pay against @uniteucu.bsky.social's industrial action. For info: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social Love your work! Can you ask our @ucu.org.uk leadership why they are taking punitive action against @uniteucu.bsky.social's industrial action? For info: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

Hi #TUC2025 & @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social, enjoy congress! Can you reaffirm the movement's commitment to challenge disproportionate pay deductions for Action Short of Strike and upholding the democratically-voted-upon policies of a union? +have a word w our GS... uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@ucu.org.uk #UCU deploys “vindictive” union-busting tactics in attempt to crush staff #union. It's high time you've solved this, @drjogrady.bsky.social! Keep on like that, and you will just destroy #UCU. ☹️📉👎🏽 #Solidarity with our @uniteucu.bsky.social comrades!✊🏾 uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

What a mess - when will the @ucu senior management team realise that this awful & aggressive strategy (a) isn’t working and (b) damages the reputation of the union and its members’ interests? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

🚨 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

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Ed Balls: the Greens taking votes from Labour helps the Tories @zackpolanski.bsky.social : "I want to see every Labour politician whose voted for a two child benefit cap, for disability cuts, for the ongoing genocide in Gaza to sell arms to them, I want to see them replaced" #GMB

📺Join us this Thursday 4 and Friday 5 September for The Gaza Tribunal, an inquiry into Britain's role in Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Sign up and follow the proceedings live. Thursday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3un... Friday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezu5... thegazatribunal.uk

Yes @zackpolanski.bsky.social for the win!

Zack Polanski is the new leader of the Green Party of England & Wales. You wanted a radical, leftist Green Party….you’ve got one! Join the Greens now and let Starmer + Farage know that WE’RE COMING FOR THEM! @zackpolanski.bsky.social