Solidarity with @uhiucu.bsky.social ✊ Our branch has passed a motion to support your branch & hardship fund. We condemn UHI management for failing to consider alternatives offered by the branch, demonstrating their disregard for staff & students alike. We stand with you for a fair university system!
Solidarity with @leicesterucu.bsky.social ✊ Our branch has passed a motion to support your branch & hardship fund. We condemn the University Executive Board’s refusal to rule out collective compulsory redundancies. Your fight is part of a wider struggle across the sector to defend higher education!
Solidarity with @bcu-ucu.bsky.social ✊ Our branch has passed a motion to support your branch & hardship fund. We are deeply concerned by BCU leadership's actions. Your stand for fairness, transparency, and genuine collegiality reflects the values that underpin our union and our profession!
Scotland's Climate March: A better world is possible. Saturday 15th November, Assemble at Glasgow Green, 11am
Global Solidarity: for a world where everyone is safe, has enough, and is respected. Fair Transition: for a fairer Scotland with jobs, transport and homes that support the move beyond fossil fuels. Caring for Our Planet: Restoring nature to reclaim a future where all can thrive.
Four years on from COP26 in Glasgow, a broad coalition of groups will be marching through the city to show world leaders at COP30 that we are still watching. @ucuglasgow.bsky.social will be one of these groups, join us at Glasgow Green at 11am (you’ll find us under the UCU Glasgow banner) 💚 ✊
Solidarity with @uhiucu.bsky.social ✊
Connecting global migration struggles. Migration scholars solidarity & resistance network. Panel discussion & "Tori & Lokita" film screening. Venue: Maryhill integration network, 35 Avenuepark street, glasgow G20 8TS. GRAMNet & UCU Glasgow
Join GRAMNet & @ucuglasgow.bsky.social members alongside activists and researchers for a panel discussion and film screening of 'Tori & Lokita' at Maryhill Integration Network on Nov 11, 4-7pm. The event is totally free, in-person & open to all. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting...
Workshop: What is the fossil fuel industry doing at my university? 10th November 2025, 3-5:30pm, Glasgow University
Linda Knoester and Aaron Pereira from Solid Sustainability Research will be visiting Glasgow to deliver a hands-on workshop. The goal of the workshop is to give you the skills and techniques to research institutional links to the fossil fuel industry or other health-harming and violent indeustries.
NEXT MONDAY: Let's investigate our university's fossil ties together!
In this 2.5 hour interactive session we'll gain practical skills to investigate university fossil ties, applicable to other harmful & violent industries
Drinks and snacks provided, bring a laptop! Sign up at tinyurl.com/mftuk
Joint Presidents, Ryan & Duncan, wearing UCU hats and shirts, holding up pink UCU envelopes and putting their ballot envelopes in the postbox
Our @ucuglasgow.bsky.social joint branch presidents posting their ballots 📮 Tag us in your @ucu.org.uk ballot posting pics and let's GTVO!! #WeAreTheUniversity
Members holding up "We are the university" banner
We are the University! and we are currently balloting to take action for better pay, job security, and respect of national agreements ✊ Let's smash the 50% turnout threshold to make our ballot count! Post your ballot ASAP 📮 @ucu.org.uk #WeAreTheUniversity
Hello 👋😊
UCU live
📣 Every convo counts. Every vote matters. 💥
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
Join the resistance! The rebel alliance needs you - get your ballots posted in the HE pay ballot ✊
@unison.org.uk
@ucu.org.uk
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
@eisunion.bsky.social
(Insert your Star Wars themed ballot puns below ↘️)
We're so excited to be hosting this workshop on Nov 10! More details coming soon 💚
We are the University. Industrial action ballot opens week commencing 20th October. Vote Early. Vote Yes. UCU Pay Campaign
What is the dispute about? 1) a pay uplift that is at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500 whichever is the higher on all pay points 2) The protection of national agreements relating to terms and conditions of employment, including the 2004 framework agreement, the Post-92 contract, and HE2000 3) A national agreement to avoid redundancies, course closures, and cuts to academic disciplines across the sector
Ballot papers have been dispatched today and should be arriving with members soon! It's vital that we crush the 50% turnout threshold, so be sure to vote ASAP!! 🗳️ & don't forget to tag us in your ballot posting photos 📸
Not a member yet? You can still join up until Nov 20th & vote in this ballot 😁
LGBTQ+ Subcommittee Social, Open to allies and UCUcurious. 21st October 12-1pm in the QMU Bistro. Lunch Provided
Whether you're in UCU, another union, UCU-curious, LGBTQIA+, or our ally or accomplice, you are very welcome. Just socialising and food in the name of fostering community, friendship and solidarity! Join us on Tuesday Oct 21 at 12 pm in the QMU Bistro. Please RSVP to help us get the catering right 😊
New UCU Glasgow members meet branch officers and reps over lunch
We’ve had a strong start to the academic year with our first general meeting & a welcome lunch for those of you who’ve recently joined UCUGlasgow! As we head into balloting (opening Oct 20th), it’s as important as ever to build our organising power. More here: glasgow.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/10/09/w...
We're hiring! Job vacancy for branch administrator/organiser with our Glasgow University branch @ucuglasgow.bsky.social. Closing date 10am on 5 June. Details and application 👇 www.ucu.org.uk/vacancies#BAO5
UCU Campaign for GTAs Calling for Fair Pay, Equal Pay, Secure Pay
Fair pay: To eliminate the endemic overworking of GTAs expected to perform tasks not within those stipulated as their responsibility in their employment contracts – particularly, but not limited to, extra administrative work and contributions to the creation of course content.
Equal pay: To raise allocated preparation time to a reasonable level which truly represents the work that GTAs must devote to delivering pedagogically sound teaching. There should be transparency of workload models for GTAs, e.g. preparation time, marking time and end discrepancies in pay rates and time allocations for different tasks across colleges.
Secure pay: To ensure all GTAs are issued initially with two-year contracts, as per the University’s policy.
🚨 Support our Graduate Teaching Assistants!
This year has seen a spate of cuts in real terms to GTA pay and conditions across many departments that left an already underpaid and overworked workforce at breaking point.
Sign our petition to support crucial staff: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/gta-glasgow/
A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
Support colleagues at the University of East Anglia during their day of action by sharing this post.
What a turnout! Sending solidarity!
#SaveHE
The University and College Union Glasgow (UCUG) is gravely concerned at the response of the university’s governing bodies to peaceful student protests relating to divestment and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The way to deal with a student occupation and hunger strike should be to engage immediately with the students whose health and wellbeing is in danger, not to refuse to call an emergency meeting of Court to discuss student demands, nor indeed to invite police on campus for three days in a row to intimidate protesters. We in UCUG have been clear that we wish to see divestment from the arms industry and a just peace in Palestine. We will also continue to vocally oppose the global crackdown on basic human rights and civil liberties on staff and students involved in the divestment and pro-Palestinian movements, especially when it happens on our campus. We call once again on the senior management group and members of Court to examine their conscience and change course.
No Cops on Campus.
The University and College Union Glasgow (UCUG) is gravely concerned at the response of the university’s governing bodies to peaceful student protests relating to divestment and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The cuts to 632 posts announced by university executives hide behind the numbers.
Every post is a person, a valued colleague.
We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni
Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2
🍉 UCU Glasgow support for Palestine
In light of today’s protests on campus, the UoG Jewish Staff Network has also issued a statement of support for the GUJPS campaign for divestment (slide 2).
@glasgowstopwar.bsky.social
🍉 UCU Glasgow support for Palestine
In light of today’s protests on campus, we are sharing our support (slide 1; sent to SMG last month) for peaceful protests in solidarity with Palestine at the University of Glasgow.
@glasgowstopwar.bsky.social
Three people in pink hats, holding flyers which say Stop the Cuts, behind a table with big pink posters and a laptop.
Busy stall outside Main Gate yesterday as we sought to gain signatures to the national @ucu.org.uk petition to #StopTheCuts
Thanks to Diarmid, Jenny, Lina and Rory for donning the pink to support the branch ✊
Our members have been making the trip to join and support @ducuuo.bsky.social members on the picket lines
Extra important given the recent announcement of 632 jobs losses #StopTheCuts #savejobs #dogsonpicketlines
