All early career researchers know the ending : years of precarious labour, followed by joblessness & expectation that they should be grateful for the experience Pipeline isn’t leaking. It’s being deliberately drained People pushed out are the future www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Equality is not a slogan; it is a collective commitment. When we all stand together with courage and conviction, we do more than challenge injustice: we ignite the full power of our union.

👏 Congratulations to the thousands of Unite members pushing back and winning better pay over the last month 💥 Since @unitesharon.bsky.social was elected General Secretary in August 2021, over 267,000 Unite members have stood up in nearly 1,600 disputes and won more than £620 million in better pay

Save the Vet School - protests planned in Cambridge

Save the Vet School - protests planned in Cambridge

Join our #EmploymentRightsBill 2 campaign rally with CTUF in #London on 21 March. Speakers: Steve Gillan, POA, Fran Heathcote @pcsunion.bsky.social , Eddie Dempsey @rmtunion.bsky.social, @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social +TBA Sponsored by @thompsons.law RSVP bit.ly/ERB2Rally #StrikeMap

Not just a university restructure but a coastal town losing its future. Rally tomorrow, 12–1pm, The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend (SS1 1NS). Be there.

Forcing staff out of their pension scheme and threatening dismissal if they object is shameful. It’s fire & rehire by another name. Show your support for staff at Southampton Solent University striking on 9 & 17 February to protect retirement security. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1439...

Cambridge University workers unions launch campaign to Save the Vet School uniteuoc.org.uk/joint-union-...

Cambridge University workers unions launch campaign to Save the Vet School uniteuoc.org.uk/joint-union-...

Since the banks crashed the economy real wages have gone down by £11,000. And yet Labour’s Budget chose to tax workers. Billionaires and the super-rich got off lightly. 1/2

“Closing Southend means losing homegrown social workers people who understand this community.” Join us this Thursday as we rally to stop the cuts and save Southend’s campus. 🕛 12:00–13:00 | 📍 The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend

The UK is abandoning the discovery science that future innovation depends on Apparently the plan for “growth sectors” is to cut fundamental physics and hope innovation just .… happens It's betting on AI while hollowing out the science it depends on www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Unions launch campaign to Save the Vet School through Unite, Unison, and University and College Union (UCU), staff at the University of Cambridge launch a campaign to save the Department of Veterinary Medicine. uniteuoc.org.uk/save-the-vet...

Our next branch meeting is on Monday 2nd March at 1PM. Members should find a link and agenda in their email inboxes nearer the date.

Our next branch meeting is on Monday 2nd March at 1PM. Members should find a link and agenda in their email inboxes nearer the date.

A growing gap in pay is emerging at Cambridge University with an elite of high earners and the rest The total amount paid to senior figures earning in excess of £150,000 has increased from £7 million in 2019 to £37 million in 2025 New blog posting 21percent.org?p=3167

Divide Cambridge University staff into two groups: top 50 earners ('Golden 50') & everyone else Since 2019, inflation-adjusted pay is up ~10% for the Golden 50 but down ~10% for rest Senior pay rises are funded by falling pay elsewhere It's systematic transfer of money from the many to the few

“This is the second time in less than two years that this government has denied 50s-born women the pension justice they are rightfully owed. It is a disgraceful decision. This government needs to reflect on its treatment of #WASPI women. and change course.” 📣 Comment if you agree with Monica

Our next branch meeting is on Monday 2nd February at 1PM. Members should find a link and agenda in their email inboxes.

Our next branch meeting is on Monday 2nd February at 1PM. Members should find a link and agenda in their email inboxes.

This is of great concern to all university workers

Staff cuts. Students in debt yet Vice-chancellor pay keeps soaring. The mystery of Higher Education in the UK that no one seems to have the answer to. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

“Slashing the staff body like this is nothing short of academic vandalism.” @drjogrady.bsky.social Stand with London Met staff and students at the rallies as they fight cuts to 120 jobs: Tue 3 Feb (Holloway) 9–10 & 1–2 Wed 4 Feb (City) 9–10 & 1–2 Mon 9 Feb (Holloway) 1pm

🕯️ Today we mark Holocaust Memorial Day & remember the 6 million Jewish people who were murdered in the Holocaust. We also commemorate the millions of other persecuted people murdered by the Nazis and the millions more murdered in other genocides around the world. #WeRemember #NeverAgain

TOGETHER We march. For love. For hope. For unity. March 28. Be there. #together

Let's not forget that this dispute is about Birmingham bin workers losing up to £8,000 of their pay. The negotiations in this dispute have been a shambles, in actual fact there have been none since July 2025, and this Labour government is right at the heart of it! 📖👇

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February

🏰 If your employer says you don't need a union - you might need one. Everyone has the right to a union. So when it comes to securing #JobsPayConditions, don't leave all the power in your employers hands. After all, can you really trust them?

AI and automation will radically change the world of work, and it has the capacity to put millions of jobs at risk. Technological change is inevitable, the question is whether it will be used to improve the lives of workers, or simply to concentrate wealth and deepen inequality. 1/2

There are many lessons that can be learnt from the origins of this dispute. The solidarity, determination and spirit of the striking workers and their supporters was without question. 1/3

Who pays for the crisis and the investment required to back British industry? Workers do! These are the wrong decisions. Everyday workers get hit by stealth taxes, while city bankers and billionaires go largely unscathed. Have you seen our new stealth tax calculator? 1/2

Freezing pay to force staff out of their pension is unacceptable. Northumbria must rethink its plans before lasting damage is done. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

"The system is rigged and the country knows it. It's time for a wealth tax on the super-rich and a tax on excess profits" @unitesharon.bsky.social Even millionaires agree. 💬 Comment and 🔄 share if you agree too #Davos26 #WEF26 #WealthTax

Cambridge has crippling living costs for workers, but Stagecoach thinks it can get away with paying the city’s drivers subpar wages. Our members will not be treated as second class employees: Stagecoach can afford to give them a fair slice of the pie.

“Inequality: the most interconnected global risk for a second year running" say WEF delegates. So the big Q: Why the **** aren't ‘world leaders’ talking about taxing wealth? It's time our government acted, they could start with a #WealthTax now! Agree? 🗨️ Comment & 🔁 Share #WEF26 #Davos26

“You can’t cut one in ten staff without damaging students and teaching.” 85% of University of Essex staff have voted for strike action over plans to cut 400 jobs and close the Southend campus. Show your support and solidarity as they prepare to fight back. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1432...

It’s time for the politicians to back our social care workers and that only comes through investment in people and services.

What's Gone Wrong at Cambridge University? While real-terms pay for the average employee has slowly eroded year after year, Cambridge has found the funds to expand both the ranks & rewards of its £100k-plus earners The Vice Chancellor heads the six-figure earners at > £500k

Battle for Veterinary Science at Cambridge The Vet School needs £20m to survive, allegedly It's a disputed figure but dwarfed by recent yearly increases in central administration spending Cambridge has a priorities crisis not a funding crisis @jw132.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is TOMORROW! Join the online rally; this is not a fight confined to Sheffield.

Not one single negotiation since July 2025. @unitetheunion.bsky.social urges @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social to get back to the table and negotiate a fair deal for our members. The ongoing bin strike is a direct result of the council’s mismanagement of its finances. #Birmingham

Over the last two years, @unitetheunion.bsky.social has consistently called out the profiteers driving the cost-of-living crisis. While workers have been hit with the biggest fall in real wages and living standards in generations, corporations have racked up hundreds of billions in profits.

What's gone wrong at Cambridge University? Flat departmental budgets (inflation-adjusted) from 2016–2025 Explosive growth in central administration spending The result is a university increasingly run around teaching and research rather than for them Dereliction of its core mission

At our January branch meeting, members voted to make a solidarity donation to striking Stagecoach bus workers in Cambridge. #UniteTheUnion

At our branch meeting this week, members voted unanimously to condemn USA military aggression against Venezuela. All effort must be made to find peaceful resolutions to international conflicts. Workers are always the losers in war.

At our branch meeting this week, members voted unanimously to condemn USA military aggression against Venezuela. All effort must be made to find peaceful resolutions to international conflicts. Workers are always the losers in war.

At our January branch meeting, members voted to make a solidarity donation to striking Stagecoach bus workers in Cambridge. #UniteTheUnion

💰 Supermarket profits are up 💰 Dividends to shareholders up 💰 Pay to CEOs up 📈 Food prices up Spot the link?

📈 TESCO In the past four years, food prices in the UK have rocketed by a staggering 40% – yet between 2020/21 and 2024/5 Tesco saw its operating profit balloon by almost three quarters (72%). This sort of rampant profiteering is simply a disgrace, and it must be stopped.