Northumbria pics
Another day out and proud on the picket lines today at Northumbria University.
Staff are fighting to defend the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and stop management’s attempt to force them out through pay freezes.
This is about dignity, security and refusing to let pensions be stripped away.
Show your support for staff out on the pickets again today at the University of Essex.
Over 400 jobs. Southend Campus on the chopping block. This is a wrecking plan for education, for jobs and the city.
Rally to save Southend Campus: Sunday 8 March, 1pm, Pier Hill → Broadway. Join us.
Reform mayor of Lincolnshire has voted to slash ESOL.
A clear signal of the damage Reform intends to inflict on our communities.
Demanding migrants speak English then cutting the very provision that makes that possible.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1441...
From today, staff at Durham University begin working to rule.
No more covering for the hundreds of jobs that have been cut.
Staff will work strictly to contracted hours and withdraw goodwill.
Universities cannot operate on unpaid labour.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1441...
Hustings recordings for the VP (FE) and VP (HE) elections are up and can be viewed here www.ucu.org.uk/article/1419...
If you haven't posted your ballot yet give these a watch (grab a brew, they're 15mins each) and hopefully it helps you back a candidate.
Check out these vids from Mark laying out why he deserves your vote for VP from the HE sector.
Take a moment to listen to the realities of teaching in Prison Ed from the wonderful Pauline Rattery. I heard many stories yesterday at the Prison Ed AGM. These amazing educators do an incredible job under the most challenging circumstances.
youtu.be/t2WsiZCUhqM?...
Proud to chair the UCU Prison Education AGM today. They have faced 25% funding cuts, mass redundancies, broken profiling systems and shocking failures of workplace health & safety- yet the determination in the room to rebuild, organise and fight for members was absolutely inspiring ✊
#UCU
#PrisonEd
Reposting this as people probs have their ballot papers now!!
UCU’s vision for prison education. More details at https://www.ucu.org.uk/UnlockingFutures
Last night I caught up with UCU’s prison educators, exceptional members doing amazing work to change lives. They deserve safety on the job, job security, decent pay and respect.
I’m proud to have their support, and all of us should back their campaign for change: www.ucu.org.uk/UnlockingFut...
Join the University and Colleges Union branch at the University of Dundee today.
Our strike action and lobbying was a major factor in securing additional funding for the University.
We consistently protect our members and ask for redundancies to be ruled out.
Join now - www.ucu.org.uk/join
Please show your support to colleagues at Aberdeen facing job losses.
We will fight this ✊
Staff at Truro and Penwith College will strike on Monday 23 February.
Management imposed a 2% pay award, half the level recommended by the AoC - thats a real-terms pay cut.
Fair pay. Manageable workloads. Proper time for students.
Show your support to our amazing colleagues taking action at Northumbria today!
Solidarity with London Met UCU
Thursday university of Essex staff will be taking to the picket lines to say no to cuts, no to job losses and no to the closure of the Southend campus.
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social stands with staff, students and @unison.org.uk as we fight together.
Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at
@sheffielducu
Punishment is not negotiation. ✊
📢 Staff on casualised contracts: have your say
UCU’s annual meeting takes place Sat 28 Feb (hybrid) at UCU HQ & on Zoom.
Share your voice and shape how we fight insecurity at work
Register by 17 Feb ucu.wufoo.com/forms/annual...
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...
We are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
St Helens, Knowsley and Liverpool are out on the picket lines this morning.
FE staff have faced a 40% real-terms pay cut and are paid around £9,000 less for doing the same job.
That’s not fair and it’s not sustainable.
Show your support ✊
FE transforms lives. From FE student at Burnley College to Shadow Chancellor.
John McDonnell MP: “We will be with you at every rally, every dispute and every picket.”
Thank you for your ongoing solidarity.
Rationing Tesco Value coffee is not a lifestyle choice it’s the result of poverty pay.
This cannot be the reality for the people educating the next generation.
“Our demands are not only fair they are essential for this country.” @drjogrady.bsky.social
This morning at Working Men’s College, FE staff are standing together.
FE teachers are demanding more, fair pay, fair workloads, and respect for the vital work they do.
✊ Stand with FE staff
We love to see it! Solidarity to all our colleagues striking today ✊
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🚩 We’re out in force and it’s working.
College staff are on strike across England today, and college leaders can and are coming to the table.
🔁 Repost. Get down there. Show your support.
Let’s show them the strength of solidarity. ✊
#FEstrikes #NewDealForFE
We love to see it! We got this!
Students are being penalised for getting an education.” @drjogrady.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning, on the mis-selling scandal in student loans.
More pay for FE. Less work for FE.
📣 Bournemouth & Poole College staff out in force today.
Further education keeps communities going but staff are stretched, underpaid and undervalued.
This is what solidarity looks like. ✊
College leaders, come to the table.
Why are FE teachers on strike?
As Ian Dale pointed out on LBC, FE lecturers’ starting pay is barely above minimum wage.
Minimum wage ≈ £26,400.
FE starting pay in England? Not £30k.
That’s why staff are striking across England today.
