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Solidarity to @uniteneu.bsky.social and TSSA staff belonging to @gmblondonregion.bsky.social - both striking today over bullying and intimidation in their workplace. Too many of today’s union leaders are displaying a level of hypocrisy which is doing severe damage to the entire movement.

Out on the picket line with our striking TSSA Union members this morning. We appreciate the solidarity from TSSA members and activists.✊ Bullying and intimidation have no place in any workplace. It’s time for TSSA’s executive leadership to clean up its act.

Following a report on @drjogrady.bsky.social's NEC update, we want to clarify that all dispute issues remain unresolved: ❌ trade union victimisation ❌ failure to negotiate a hybrid working policy ❌ failure to adequately deal with safety issues ❌ breach of recognition agreement & other policies.

ASOS which is "work in the same way you’ve done for years" is not irresponsible. It's protecting our members until a fair & equitable hybrid policy is agreed. UCU SMT then deducting 100% of daily pay from staff taking ASOS & undermining its own policy? Now that’s irresponsible.

Being disabled shouldn’t mean you’re on a lower wage, or that you’re afraid to ask for support at work because it could hit you financially. Having a reasonable adjustment should never lead to a pay cut. But this is what’s happening to some UCU staff right now. Short 🧵

We wondered last week whether @drjogrady.bsky.social would listen to @ucu.org.uk members, agree to unconditional talks & withdraw the threat of deductions for taking ASOS. So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/b...

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?

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...

With another 9 @ucu.org.uk branches now calling on UCU to do the right thing we wonder if @drjogrady.bsky.social is listening to her members.

The first-ever strike by staff of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has been covered by TradeWinds, ShippingWatch, and The Maritime Executive.

ITF Staff Strike Day 4: Finishing strong on our fourth consecutive day of industrial action! Massive thank you to everyone who committed to respect our global picket line, who visited us in person, or sent in a message of solidarity.

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.

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:

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...

🚨 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

Sweep doing his bit for GTVO by supporting another yes & yes vote. #ReclaimUCU

Happy staff don’t vote for action. More yes & yes votes hit the postbox. #ReclaimUCU

🎵 ‘Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong. Yes and yes’.

More members voting YES & YES for a Safe & Professional Workplace.

Yes and Yes votes in our campaign for a Safe & Professional Workplace hitting the postbox already. Vote yes, vote early. 🚀

😡 Targeting our reps 😡 Refusing to talk 😡 Imposing an office return with no equality assessment or hybrid agreement 😡 Breaching agreed procedures 😡 Unsafe levels of work-related stress Just 5 reasons our ballot opens today for a Safe & Professional Workplace. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/b...

Huge thanks to @cupe3903.bsky.social for their solidarity! At York University, CUPE 3903 members are no strangers to the harmful effects that restructuring and unfair bargaining practices can have on workers.

As a result of unprecedented compounding pressure from our industrial action mandate, affiliate engagement and public scrutiny – ITF management are finally moving at the bargaining table.

Lovely message from Unite staff who are members of @gmb.org.uk: "We wanted to extend our heartfelt solidarity with you and your dispute with management."

We’ve been relatively quiet recently. Unfortunately this isn’t because we’re finally making progress in our long-running dispute over our demand for a safe and professional workplace. Nor is it because industrial relations are improving and our employer is now engaging meaningfully. Long 🧵

Day two on the picket outside NEU offices — a 🧵 So many messages of solidarity have poured in from NEU and multiple union districts and branches across the UK. Thank you so much…

NEU staff are on strike today and tomorrow. We can’t beleive it’s come to this. Striking as a trade union worker requires an absurd amount of things to go wrong — because you spend everyday making the union you love the kind of organisation people want to join - you only ever want to see it win.

42 days into a 55-day “meaningful consultation” and we still have no actual job descriptions. Our employer created 9 generic base “profiles” for over 65 highly specialised roles. We’re still waiting for actual job descriptions.

*ACTION ALERT* 100% of union representatives in scope of the restructure put at risk of redundancy by @itfglobalunion.bsky.social management. Are we all incredibly unlucky or is this a potential case of union-busting by a union?

It’s not just us! We’re sending massive solidarity today to Unite @ NEU, on strike for two days over a restructure being carried out without meaningful consultation. And also to @uniteitf.bsky.social who are facing major job cuts as well as dealing with yet another union-busting union employer.

Our branch has declared no confidence in UCU’s SMT to protect the well-being of staff, nor in its commitment to improving industrial relations. With the increasing victimisation of our reps, and SMT now repeatedly imposing changes in working conditions and policies, our dispute continues.

😡 Imposition, not negotiated agreement 😡 Victimisation of reps 😡 Refusal to engage with the recognised union ☣️ All signs of a toxic organisational culture & not what we should see from a union employer. Shame on @ucu.org.uk whose staff deserve so much better uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/1...

Thank you to all the UCU members who came to our fringe last night - and sorry we ended up with standing room only (again!). Our members absolutely appreciate your ongoing support, especially the unusually small handful required to work at #UCU2025 in somewhat trying circumstances. #Solidarity

Everyone welcome. Today, 6.30pm, Leonardo Hotel - just a few minutes walk from the #UCU2025 venue. #UCUCongress

*Today @ 6.30pm* *Unite UCU Fringe* 🗣✊🗣✊ Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool #UCU2025 #UCUCongress

One of us, all of us: fighting for our members, our workplace, your union. 6:30pm, Saturday 24 May, Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool #YNWA

Unite UCU fringe at #UCU2025 Congress When: 6.30pm, Saturday 24 May Where: Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool One of us, all of us: fighting for our members, our workplace, your union. #YNWA

We are, and have always been, ready to negotiate - even when under attack. Are you finally ready to talk meaningfully @ucu.org.uk ? #StopTUVictimisation

UCU branches are amazing. Thank you.

We can quickly clear our picket puppets from our negotiating table because we remain happy to meet any time, any place. Shame the employer wouldn’t join us today. #MayDay2025 #ThriveNotSurvive

It was also fantastic to hear speakers from former UCU staff as well as new. #MayDay2025 #ThriveNotSurvive

Heartfelt thanks for the amazing solidarity from the speakers from @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social and @qmucu.bsky.social #MayDay2025 #ThriveNotSurvive

Uplifting turnout at our strike rally earlier, with added support from a #MayDay2025 meet-up in Scotland. No sign of our employer, needless to say. #ThriveNotSurvive

Inspiring. Our members in UCU’s Northern Region have created a video for #MayDay to show the support for our industrial action. Huge solidarity back at @ducu.bsky.social for the message from their own picket line & also to every UCU branch currently facing massive fights. youtu.be/vAZVL1ZFM5A?...

🪧 STRIKE RALLY TODAY 🪧 Bring yourselves, bring your banners, bring your flags, bring your solidarity and, with the sun due to shine bright, bring your sunscreen ☀️☀️☀️ - health & safety: important to us if not to our employer! So come and join us at noon outside UCU head office in London.

Hands up who thinks trade unions should be model employers? ✋🏽 ✋🏾 ✋🏻 ✋🏿 ✋🏼 #ThriveNotSurvive

Thanks for expressing solidarity with all striking workers. Any chance of a shout out for our strike rally tomorrow? 🙏

Thank you to all the amazing UCU branches who’ve been solid & vocal in supporting us. And huge #solidarity to those taking their own action. UCU isn’t one person, it’s its branches, its activists & its members. We want to work for & support you; being unable to properly do so is beyond upsetting.

Still on strike. Still out of office. Do come along on 1 May to show your solidarity for UCU staff who are striking for a safe and professional workplace. uniteucu.wordpress.com/dispute-over...