UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Really proud that my union’s (UCU) Women’s Members Standing Committee have signed @nionwomen.bsky.social coalition of women’s groups against the transphobic EHRC “guidance”. notinourname.org.uk/womens-organ...
Now is the time for ALL staff in HE (and FE and prison education) to join a union. For those in the U.K. in academic roles, academic-related and many administrative or professional services roles, you will be represented by UCU. You can join at my.ucu.org.uk/app/membersh... . #UCU @ucu.org.uk
UCU - Join UCU TodayWelcome to UCU’s Membership Portal where you can join the union, manage and update your personal information and find answers to the most frequently raised questions relating to Membership, Employment...my.ucu.org.ukUCU has today launched a marketing boycott of London South Bank University. Prospective students deserve to know the truth. LSBU management has fired and rehired its academics and pushed new starters into a sham company with worse pensions. Staff are on strike all week, show your support! ✊
▶️ Take action now - write to Goldsmiths senior management and demand they end the lockout and work with @ucu.org.uk to find a resolution to the dispute bit.ly/EndGoldsmithsLockout #StrikeMap #Endthelockout #Goldsmiths
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental scienceswww.technosphere.earth
Had the honour & opportunity to meet @zackpolanski.bsky.social at #UCUCongress. We briefly chatted about Makersfield, the importance of trade unions, and my journey in @ducu.bsky.social as a professional services member. He was friendly, he listened, he asked probing questions. Was a pleasure.
#RunningPicket @uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk #WeAreTheUniversity