Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...

Great letter from Jo Grady to the Uni of Reading, which is pursuing egregious treatment of its trans staff and students.

If you wish to support our efforts, you can do so here. Any funds donated here will be used to off set any loss income suffered by those of us mabbing. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... You can also donate here: UCU Nottingham LA63 Hardship Fund Account number: 20346359 Sort code: 60-83-01

Solidarity from Cambridge, where support staff are on strike today

Most importantly: as a cis woman; a feminist; a historian - this will *never* be in my name. Then: an equalities body that chooses to exclude a specific group; chooses to limit human rights of one community - it is an equalities body that has already dismantled itself and any legitimacy with it.

With each byelection costing ~£30K that's £3million of council tax payers money Reform UK have wasted, so far ... "Nearly 100 Reform UK councillors have now been kicked out, suspended, disqualified, resigned or defected — including 22 in just TWO WEEKS since local elections" via ReformUK Exposed/X

Post picket pint at the Free Press. Best pint of Landlord in town.

Teenage boys get non custodial sentence for rape, but cheer yourself up by knowing that trans men and women who just want to go to the toilet have been further dehumanised and alienated www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Solidarity to Unite Strikers at Cambridge University - come on down @unite0775m.bsky.social

This morning in Cambridge. Support a Cambridge Weighting for university workers!

Great to see UCU GS Jo Grady taking a lead against the EHRC guidance. Draconian measures being taken to address a risk that does not exist, that will actually endanger countless cis women as a result whilst oppressing transgender people.

Everything he says about Starmer - couldn’t put it better. But sod Starmer, this is now about whether Labour continues to exist. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRGXfqe5/

Wes Streeting. The best Labour leader the Green Party could ever dream of.

Support staff at Cambridge University start three more days of strike action tomorrow

What's being done to the humanities in Hertfordshire is unconscionable and short-sighted. Please co-sign to stand up for a critical and creative world accessible to all. #UKHE

And by pulling universities like @northumbriauni.bsky.social out of national collective bargaining, thereby fragmenting collective pay deals and destroying conditions, employers are turning HE into FE...

Streeting is almost as despised as Starmer and people are recognising the danger he poses to the NHS. I say go for it. the best thing Labour could do for the Green Party.

Can I just ask, #r4today, as you seem to be very keen to talk about and investigate Polanski’s council tax issue, why not the same feverish scrutiny over the far more troubling and glaringly corrupt £5M bribe Farage took from that crypto billionaire, Harborne? We can hear your strings being pulled.

It’s called a Cordon Sanitaire, and it is precisely how all parties committed to liberal democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights should treat far-right, fascist, anti-democratic parties. A media committed to a democratic state should do the same. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

Headline - Zac may have incorrectly paid poll tax on a houseboat. Not mentioned- Farage breaks ministerial code by not declaring £5m ‘personal gift’ from Thai ex-pat billionaire. And what’s the tally on Reform Ltd councillors gone already? 15?

Not every Reform voter is a racist, but every racist is a Reform voter. And racists like to vote. Those who are now under Reform will suffer the same criminality, corruption, incompetence and wanton destruction of services evidenced in their previous councils.

Teaching in one science department is “now bare-bones, with our pro vice-chancellor using the term ‘minimum viable product’ as the goal”. A politics academic keeps “trying to be positive, but it is exhausting. I moved my whole family here for this job; the guilt is horrendous." 1/3

To get rid of this racist, dictator appeasing genocide complicit “Labour” gov, Vote Green, Plaid, SNP today. Vote - remember Labour and Faragists will be voting and every vote will be needed to stop the fascists and make Starmer resign. This is all about national and international issues today.

it’s usually the far right that attacks universities. Today we’re seeing authoritarian centrists, the genocide complicit Labour Party, spreading the culture war just to try and smear the left, the greens, and all decent people who oppose the slaughter of children and wars of choice. Labour is done.

Part of our rally on Friday. Speakers included supporters from UCU -academics union, NEU -teachers union, Unite Cambridge Engineering, Unite ARU, Cambridge Marxists, Your Party Councillor, regional and national Unite officers.

Our industrial actions are set to begin this month, with a marking and assessment boycott beginning on May 20th and the first strike day occurring on May 22nd.

Join us tomorrow on the Fielding Johnson lawn for a communal picnic, live music, and talks by affected staff, students, and supporters

The weaponisation of anti semitism by Starmer prior to the elections and Israel to cover increasing pogroms in the West Bank is incredibly dangerous. The hypocrisy from the establishment is not surprising, but it could itself cause a backlash.

Starmer’s latest scandal over his reaction to the Golder’s Green attacks, linking the three victims (1 Muslim 2 Jewish) to anti- genocide protests, accusing Polanski, a Jewish man, of antisemitism after criticism of police brutality whilst dozens people have been attacked, abducted and tortured by

In response to the horrible antisemitic attack in London, Mark Pendleton and Bijan Parsia submitted the following late motion to tomorrow's NEC (1 May 2026). #UCU ucucommons.org/nec-late-mot...

This is absolutely nuts. And all paid for out of the massive loans our student children are obliged to take out to pay their fees. What are all these people doing?

1st May marks International Workers Day, a day when we celebrate the contribution that the working class make to our world. Without our brain and muscle not a single wheel of our economy could turn. We send solidarity to all workers across the world fighting for the respect and dignity we deserve.

Read more about our current ballot at the University of Dundee on the BBC website. #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

last NEC of the year and I’m not off to LonDon but lurking in Cambridge- any qs or concerns for the last meeting before Congress? As it’s Beltane today’s choons are being supplied by Jethro Tull #CampusTradeUnions #UCU

Solidarity to @unite0775m.bsky.social on strike today - join them and other unions and students at the MayDay rally at Gt St Mary’s at noon!

The Policy Exchange culture warriors that captured the Office for Students always had a clear agenda - to destroy free speech/academic freedom in order to "save" it. Wrote this in 2020. Sadly accurate, although let's hope yesterday's judgment is a turning point. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The new Foos album sucks. There’s something missing in the mix as well and I can’t put my finger on it. are the drums too high and pitched too high in the mix? There’s no body, no weight, it’s really odd

It's Workers' Memorial Day and today RMT is fighting for all those who have been assaulted, abused or attacked at work. It's time for #ActionAgainstAssaults #IWMD26 📸 Ashford

There is no special relationship. There hasn't been one for a very long time, if ever. Instead, there's a parasocial relationship, in which the UK government imagines it's involved in ways the other partner doesn't recognise. States have interests, not preferences. They don't love. They calculate.

The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.

The British Royal family have a long history of appeasing fascists, that’s certainly true. #LBCNews #kingcharles

Trump fell over. He lied about it. no correction on LBC

Today (Wednesday 22nd April) is the second day of our strike action at Cambridge University

Our picket lines around Cambridge University sites today

Thousands of Essex staff are currently suffering anxiety and sleepless nights at the hands of a disinterested senior management team. This award is a slap in the face to us all. If the #UniMentalHealthCharter means anything, it should be condemning Essex SMT, not giving them awards.

When Mandelson was appointed, the only reason people could think of was deliberately because of his relationship with Epstein & Trump. Starmer wants us to believe that not only did he not know any of that but he never asked about the vetting? Who knew?

Full solidarity to our colleagues in the National Education Union who are taking action in Notts starting next Tuesday. This fight is our fight as we work towards a better future for all labourers.

It's a few weeks ago, so here a little reminder of how good it is to see members rally and fight these unreasonable proposals from the employer! We stand in solidarity @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social