Fifty branches, representing over 36% of UCU members, have now called for @drjogrady.bsky.social to enter unconditional negotiations & remove the threat of punitive deductions against staff. Unite's repeated requests for such talks have had no response. Will she now listen to @ucu.org.uk members?

"Why do you talk about genocide at parties" "Why do you talk about genocide with kids around" "Why do you talk about genocide during work calls" "Why do you talk about genocide with people who have their own shit going on" Why do you talk about genocide when... BECAUSE there is a GENOCIDE.

That 'data-driven decision making' we have to pay such a stupid amount of money for. But that data is just a basic inflation converter and a demographic table, not actual understanding of the complex cost of teaching differentiated across disciplines, or the complexity of student choices.

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how. How would you react? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

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As a union, we have been fighting employers’ attempts at making 100% pay deductions for ASOS legal since 2019. As a branch, we’ve been at the forefront of that fight since 2022. Our own union going against our policies, workers’ interest, and legal cases hurts. Letter: qmucu.org/2025/09/12/l...

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

Really helpful post here about the upcoming ballot which you'll have seen an email about on Monday. #WeAreTheUniversity - vote yes to: ▶️protect jobs and prevent cuts ▶️defend the agreements that support our work ▶️demand a pay uplift.

Your Party has sparked a wave of excitement on the left. To succeed it must break with the weight of Labourism, argue Jonny Jones and Jaice Titus, in the first of a two-part series. revsoc21.uk/2025/09/10/y...

Jan B reflects on the first ‘Your Party’ public meeting in Glasgow.

📢 Staff at the University of Edinburgh are on strike against £140m cuts. Show your support to colleagues at Edinburgh university ✊

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Jo Grady: “...these deductions are immoral, counterproductive, and have no place in our universities. UCEA and vice-chancellors need to stop with the bully-boy tactics which are damaging to staff, students, and the international reputation of UK higher education.’ www.ucu.org.uk/article/1287...

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

Drafting a more extensive response, but for now we think that (1) @uniteucu.bsky.social rock [branch position, voted on in motions], (2) that this is no way of treating staff [union position, voted on in Congress], and (3) everyone should read this blog: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

This is completely unacceptable intimidation. Every visa holder is already nervous about their visa, every university. is already draconian about visa compliance. This is just harming students to score headline points with the far right. Stop playing games with our students.

Good Indonesian protesters fighting back against the cops Morning www.instagram.com/reel/DOCvn_l...

Tube cleaners threaten strike action over wages and sick pay RMT has declared a formal dispute with outsourcing giant ABM after the company failed to improve on its derisory offer to cleaners working on the London Underground cleaning contract. rmtunion.org/45Olp7F

Beyond disgusted that Israeli President Herzog is set to visit London next week to meet Labour ministers. The Labour Party is living up to its reputation as The Genocide Party. Herzog should be arrested for war crimes the moment he sets foot on UK soil.

Prominent Palestinian academic dies from Israeli-imposed Gaza famine - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prominent-palestinian-academic-dies-israeli-famine

UK complicit in Israeli war crimes, Jeremy Corbyn's tribunal hears - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-complicit-israeli-war-crimes-jeremy-corbyns-tribunal-hears

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...

Shocking that UCU SMT are threatening to dock pay just for ASOS in Unite UCU’s dispute. Our branch is donating £150 + our Admin’s strike pay to their fund, with more to follow. We urge all UCU branches to donate asap to support our UCU staff strikers.

🚨 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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"it seemed to us like this was almost like a game of target practice. We're going to shoot the head today. Tomorrow it'll be the chest. The next day it'll be the testicles" British surgeon Nick Maynard on IDF soldiers shooting Palestinian kids.

Here he explains that Israel’s blockade on 2 March was bound to result in the horror we are now watching. Our politicians *knew* this.   Yet they didn’t place any meaningful sanctions on Israel to stop it. Didn’t even stop arms sales.     www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

The policy conference of Unite the Union has backed the bin workers and is questioning the union’s support for Labour. revsoc21.uk/2025/07/12/b...

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University lecturers pay rises: Pay rise. Inflation 2024 - 2.5%. 2.5% 2023 - 6%. 7.3% 2022 - 3%. 9% 2021 - 1.5%. 2.5% 2020 - 0%. 0.8% 2019 - 1.8%. 1.8% 2018 - 2%. 2.5% 2017 - 1.7%. 2.7% 2016 - 1.1%. 0.7%

Warning more institutions may look to Scottish government for support as ailing university’s problems blamed on mismanagement rather than wider funding pressures #highered #EduSky

In her contribution to rs21's recent Festival of the Oppressed JS Titus argued for a 'Marxism that refuses to treat race as a distraction from class, or as a mere ideological supplement'. shorturl.at/eC767

Tony Blair Institute linked to Gaza plan condemned as ethnic cleansing: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tony-blair-institute-linked-gaza-plan-condemned-ethnic-cleansing

www.ft.com/content/c0e6... Boycott. Prosecute for war crimes.

Clapton CFC in solidarity with trans liberation!

Palestinian footballer who never met newborn son dies from injuries from an Israeli missile - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-footballer-who-never-met-newborn-son-dies-injuries-israeli

Long overdue. Good.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.

Glastonbury is not the story. The Genocide is. 🎤 - With Andrew Marr.

Jonas Marvin asks ‘what are the effective organising practices, stories, transitional demands, or non-reformist reforms, to get us from the moment we currently occupy, to the free social world we want to live in?’ shorturl.at/PZwgv

Good turnout for Filton 18