Your voice matters! 🔊🗣
Make time for our upcoming AGM (17 June). Help shape our branch. Hear updates, discuss issues & vote on decisions that affect us all. The AGM is hybrid & takes place in Theatre 2 Crawford House at 12.30 toll 2pm. Email [email protected] for the Teams link. See you then! 👊🏽
💪💪💪 @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members start indefinite Action Short of a Strike @northumbriauni.bsky.social on 12 February. Strike Action is currently scheduled for...
Stronger together ✊
Hear from #LboroUCU members on why union membership matters and how we support each other.
Be part of it: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
@ucu.org.uk #UCU #JoinAUnion
Beyond busy with amazing @bcu-ucu.bsky.social as we fight a 340+ attack on jobs & ongoing dispute over performance management against a backdrop of suddenly imposed workload-increasing policy changes at same time as shrinking teams with over 200 "silent redundancies" through MARS.
Colleagues were interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about @qmul.bsky.social's sudden escalation in taking down posters & threatening disciplinary action.
It is a great explanation of what's happening & its dangers.
Listen from 22min in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or clipped: youtu.be/SJGnCrDaCf0?...
Sunday 15 March is the UN International Day to Combat #Islamophobia.
We wrote a very short piece for our University EDI blog. Please read and share.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/edi/2026/03/...
#racism #resistance
Our ballot results are in!
-63% of members voted
-84% of voting members said YES to action short of strike
-72% of voting members said YES to strike action
Which means our call for industrial action has passed and we have a mandate to fight back!
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39 lecturers at Liverpool Hope face redundancy.
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Breaking news – Redundancy notice (Section 188) removed
The University of Dundee has confirmed that the section 188 letter issued in March 2025 has been formally withdrawn! This is a direct result of the industrial action we took and the action we threatened.
This is our victory! 1/3
Some mutual love and #solidarity from the workers of Malvern House London and INTO Manchester on the #PicketLine.
#Unity and #power for the win!
@manchester.ac.uk @umucu.bsky.social
