The closure of Southend rips away jobs, education and the lifeblood of local businesses.
The rationale? Barely fills an A4 page.
In Westminister Yesterday MPs & union reps handed a vote of no confidence in Bowen to education minister Jacqui Smith.
🚨 1 in 4 staff at Goldsmiths to be axed.
All while senior management get eye-watering pay rises and £16m is spent on consultants and lawyers.
This is the reality of Higher Education in the UK.
Our members have voted for industrial action, support them.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1447...
Defend our right to protest tomorrow 14th April 6 PM.
Arresting pensioners for opposing genocide. Giving the police new powers to ban and restrict peaceful marches.
This Labour government is implementing an incredibly dangerous authoritarian crackdown.
Join @pscupdates.bsky.social tomorrow night to stand against it ✊
got my @ucu.org.uk fighting fund payment this morning so thank you to all colleagues who pay into that, it does make a difference! Solidarity!
Saturday 11th 9:30 am Colchester
Staff and students will protest at Essex University’s open day on 11 April against job cuts, course closures, and plans to shut the Southend campus.
Education is on the line.
Stand with them. Get down
Our rights at work are under attack. #StopTheSteal
Reform UK has pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters, handing power to bad bosses and rogue landlords.
“Small boats didn’t crash the economy. Liz Truss did.
Wars create refugees. Trump’s “war on Iran” will create more.
The question isn’t how to stop people fleeing. It’s how to stop creating the conditions that force them to.” @drjogrady.bsky.social
#UCU members #USIC have been taking action over pay and other T&Cs. Here's what the branch secretary has to say about the dispute @ucu.org.uk
Yesterday MPs and the council leader met with over 50 staff and students at Essex Southend.
The verdict? "A huge lack of engagement" from university management.
800 students. 400 jobs. This is the face of the Higher Education crisis.
Show your support to colleagues at Edinburgh striking this week over absurd cuts!
People at rally
People at rally
People at rally
People at rally
Big shout to UCU members who showed up.
This is what our union stands for. Education builds cohesion and educators stand for unity, not division.
Letter demanding goverment look at pensions
Letter demanding goverment look at pensions.
in higher education, warning that failure to act risks “irreparable damage” to the sector.
Universities up and down the country are looking to downgrade staff pension benefits. Read
@drjogrady.bsky.social's letter to the Education Secretary and Skills Minister 👇
What Sheffield Hallam colleagues are facing:
- Axing of 200 jobs.
- Gutting of pensions.
- Outsourcing of staff to a private company.
Third consecutive year of cuts. Enough.
Ballot opens 31 March.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...
March Together for the far right
March TOGETHER against the far right in less that 48 hours.
Central London. Saturday 28 March 2026.
Join our stand, Block C: togetheralliance.org.uk/march
Jo speaking to Newcastle
A clear message from the hundreds who turned out yesterday: we are not having it.
At Northumbria University, staff are refusing to be forced into worse pensions or pay cuts.
This is organised resistance to an organised attack.
Northumbria management says it needs to cut £25m. But it spent £39.6m on capital projects last year an eightfold increase in four years.
Staff are being asked to pay for that gamble with their pensions.
Rally tomorrow: Newcastle Civic Centre, 12.30pm.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1444...
Scotland's universities are cutting hundreds of jobs.
Four VCs took home £3.2m in two years.
Make it make sense.
Support university staff fighting for jobs.
Windsor Forest Colleges Group staff are on the picket line today and they’re not going anywhere until management makes a fair offer.
£500 doesn’t cut it when your own employer body recommends 4%. Our members deserve better. ✊
Today is the last day of joint strike action across four Scottish universities.
Aberdeen, Dundee, Heriot-Watt & Strathclyde are out on the picket lines fighting for jobs.
UCU’s Mary Senior tells STV exactly what’s at stake. The Scottish Government must act. Fund our universities. Save our jobs.
Essex management email to staff: "Your job is safe."
Three days later: "Sorry, that was a mistake."
This is the chaos our members are fighting. Essex UCU has voted to escalate, more strikes coming if management won't negotiate. Stand with Essex. ✊
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1444...
🛑 Stop Bombing Iran 🇱🇧 Hands off Lebanon 🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🗓️ Saturday 21 March ⏰ Noon 📍Russell Sq to Whitehall
🛑 Stop Bombing Iran
🇱🇧 Hands off Lebanon
🇵🇸 Free Palestine
🗓️ Saturday 21 March
⏰ Noon
📍Russell Sq to Whitehall
Student Solidarity
Student Solidarity
Student Solidarity
The student support we’ve received throughout the Essex campaign has been phenomenal.
Here are just a few of the staff and students fighting back together.
Sign the petition to save Southend. Strike days: 16-19.
#SouthendSpeaks #SaveSouthendCampus
March together !
Join our bloc at the @UKTogetherAll march on 28 March! 🙌
Assemble 12pm, Block C. Find us on what3words: ///patrol.cone.pulse
March with us against the far right ✊
Full route info: togetheralliance.org.uk
“God knows what it’s gonna do.”
This isn’t just about students. It’s about every business, every worker, every person the Southend campus brings life to.
If you are a @ucu.org.uk member at the University of Sheffield, don't forget to vote! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
30% real-terms pay cut since 2011.
Vice-chancellors attempting 15,000+ job cuts since last September.
UCU & sister unions are fighting back - submitting our 2026/27 pay claim to UCEA demanding fair pay, protected jobs & an end to casualised contracts.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1443...
This is what academic vandalism looks like.
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.
TUCG
Trade unions came together yesterday at the TUCG fringe to address assaults and threats faced by workers.
Our president spoke about the reality facing members: worsening conditions, rising pressures and the need for a collective response.
No worker should face violence or intimidation at work.
