Our UCU Scotland delegation at #STUC26 is pleased to support trans rights and Trans Pride Scotland! #TransEquality #solidarity 🏳️‍⚧️✊

UCU Scotland president Chris O'Donnell moving @ucu.org.uk motion on the Crisis in Post 16 Education. Calls on universities to be fully funded and for the framework review into funding to protect jobs, students and education #SaveHE #StopTheCuts

#STUC26 hearing @ucu.org.uk president Maria Chondrogianni move composite on university governance and the crisis in higher education. Details jobs crisis in universities and goverance failings at Dundee, where congress is meeting, and the need for goverance reform #SaveHE #StopTheCuts

Photo of STUC Congress stage

Photo of Congress delegate bag

The stage is set. Today, we bring the voices of Scotland’s workers to Dundee.

Our Congress begins - for our movement, for our people, for our class.

#STUC26

We’re at the 129th STUC Congress in Dundee this week.
Our Scotland Official visited the Trans Pride Scotland stall ahead of the debates! #STUC26 #TransEquality 🏳️‍⚧️✊

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Only one week left to register! Make your voice heard in the Scottish Parliament election. 🗳️

gov.uk/register-to-vote

'Dundee toppled before the others did’: Parties debate university model Education spokespeople from parties contesting the Holyrood election agreed on major reforms to universities and clashed over immigration.

If you missed yesterday’s UCU Scotland hustings check out the report in today’s Herald #SaveHE www.heraldscotland.com/news/2598939...

A picketer with sign & lovely bobble hat

Orkney picket with placard, bobble hat, and colleague.

This week Heriot-Watt are on strike
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are on strike
And colleagues at USIC are on strike.

But we have the most northerly picket.

Shout out to colleagues in ORKNEY 🤗
There is Strength in a Union!
Save Lincs
Save Scholar

A bee, a frog and a chicken holding Scholar placards A viking urging bosses not to pillage our programs. And a Lynx for Lincs

A chicken coordinating with a save Scholar sign

Frog has a very down turned mouth abouy the threat to Scholar staff

We are still striking & VIKING, showing our inflated strength of FELINE.
We could not BEE any more determined. We certainly won't CHICKEN out of telling our bosses unAMPHIBIOUSLY

NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCY

#Heriot-Watt @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social
#saveScholar

Edinburgh University staff strike over £140m cuts and job losses University of Edinburgh UCU staff strike over £140m cuts and a potential 1,800 job losses, with week-long walkouts demanding transparency and job…

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2597991...

Congress was humbled to hear from Palestinian PhD student Bayan Alhasani this afternoon. Bayan gave a powerful and moving speech on his and his family’s experiences in Gaza and Scotland #palestine #solidarity 🇵🇸✊

Much solidarity between @ucu.org.uk and @nusscotland.bsky.social at today’s UCU Scotland Congress

Sai Shraddha Suresh Viswanathan speaking at UCU Scotland congress bringing message of solidarity from @nusscotland.bsky.social with staff in the fight against cuts and to defend jobs #StopTheCuts #SaveHE #UCUScongress26

UCU Scotland congress now hearing from @ucu.org.uk president Maria Chondrogianni, thanking members and branches for their work opposing cuts and defending jobs #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

UCU Scotland congress starting off with @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social Chris O'Donnell addressing congress with his president's address. Setting out the union's wins but also the challenges facing the union and the sector #StopTheCuts #SaveHE #UCUScongress26

University staff to strike again amid dispute over 'damaging' £140m cuts Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the institution will take industrial action on March 30 and April 1.

Strikes at Edinburgh University next week www.heraldscotland.com/news/2596705...

'Open the books': GCU staff to be balloted for strike action as 100 jobs face axe UCU members will vote on whether to take strike action and whether to take action short of strike.

Ballot for strike action opens at Glasgow Caledonian University www.heraldscotland.com/news/2596752...

A cheery sign filled picket

A dinosaur a bee and a chicken

Inflatables plus placards and pickets

Scholar staff with a bee next to the Protect Scholar banner

Another EGG-cellent day on the Pickets. Student sign makers out in force.
We could not BEE anymore pleased with our RAWRsome inflatables who have done more for staff morale in a few hours than Heriot-Watt has all year.

#ucu
#loveLINCS #savescholar
Protect jobs

Heriot-Watt staff renew strike action in dispute over job losses and course cuts Staff at Heriot-Watt University have renewed a series of strikes over job cuts and proposals to close programmes.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/heriot-...

A drawing of a bee, a dinosaur and an angry chicken holding a sign saying „United against compulsory redundancies!“

So, a dinosaur, a chicken, and a bee walked into a picket line....

Don't actually have a punchline but they were

Bee-ing a good colleague
Saving jobs from extinction
Calling out foul play

A collage: top left " no compulsory redundancies. Keine Zwang-sentlassungen" Love LINCS. Middle left: "Stop cuts to cultural studies, we don't need no philistines, all in all your just another brick in the wall" "students support the strikes" Bottom left "Don't Shrink Lincs" Bottom right: cats against compulsory redundancies "save German & Chinese, no cuts" top rightness £100,00 (mis)management hires but no money for your future, I am no maths student but something does not add up" save lincs

Some of our lovely creative signs in support of LINCS, languages & cultural studies, opposing cuts and highlighting that the number of management staff paid over £100,000 has increased, again.

#loveLINCS

Busy @unitescotland.bsky.social rally at Strathclyde in the sun 🌞 this morring. UCU members striking there earlier this week on Tues and Wed to defend jobs and stop compulsory redundancies #SaveHE #StopTheCuts

Big turnout for the joint unions rally at Glasgow Caledonian University: opposing cuts and defending jobs. Hearing from UCU branch president Karen Lorimer #SaveHE #StopTheCuts

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.

This is what solidarity looks like.✊️✊️ Amazing support from @nusscotland.bsky.social supporting striking staff at @ucuaberdeen.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @hwucu.bsky.social & Strathclyde. They know without job security for workers students won't thrive #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Thanks to STV for their coverage of our long running dispute.

Our branch has looked at the figures and believe that further staff cuts are unjustified and will cause irreparable damage to the University of Dundee.

Join us on our picket lines today and tomorrow, all morning.

#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

Our members turned out in the wind and cold this morning to ask the University of Dundee to rule out compulsory redundancies.

#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

A picket line outside Heriot-Watt University. Around 60 people are gathered with various banners and placards and very bright pink UCU hats.

Absolutely fantastic to see such a massive turnout for @hwucu.bsky.social's first day of strike action. An excellent showing from our members (and lots of messages of support from those striking from home!) and a wonderful number of supporters too!

Staff in #UCU at Heriot-Watt Uni #Edinburgh out on #StPatricksDay for the first of 9 days of action to defend jobs, languages & Scholar online learning
As part of fight across HE in Scotland to defend jobs
@timeshighered.bsky.social @theferret.scot
@edinburghlive.co.uk