I just wrote a letter to the leadership of The New School via actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Do so too, now! The attacks on TNS’ staff and students are deeply troubling and should be opposed by everyone within and outside #HigherEd
#AcademicChatter #OneOfUsAllOfUs
@dundeeuniunite.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social #DundeeUniUnison
Ballot paper posted this morning, the day after it arrived. Fill in your ballot paper & post ot in. Your vote is your voice, every vote counts.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs #FairPayInHE
Flyers from the University of Birmingham’s Branches of UCU and UNISON about strike action and other campaigns in previous years. One flyer is also from Senate House in London
It turns out decluttering/moving things around isn’t that bad when you get to come across a collection of union flyers.
If there’s a ballot at your workplace atm, make sure you vote (Yes!) for strike action!
#UNISONinHE #UNISON #UCU #OneOfUsAllOfUs
UCU members with banners
UCU members mobilising against fascism today.
It’s vital unions work to build numbers. Growing anti LGBT+, racist messaging hits my family: I’m not alone in this. Solidarity across causes is a basic union principle but it’s also about defending our members & students -
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
‘A fixed term contract does not only dictate the terms of employment. It directly impacts the ability of colleagues to feel at home, to feel able to plan a family, to access healthcare & live health-ful lives, to establish relationships, or simply to have the ability to’..👇
#AntiCas #OneOfUsAllOfUs
It is vital that the chair of the USS JNC notes that UUK’s cuts are not necessary and recognises her role in remedying the current situation and ensuring a fair outcome for members of the USS scheme. Sign the petition today #OneofUsAllOfUs
speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/uss-cuts-are-n…
It is vital that the chair of the USS JNC notes that UUK’s cuts are not necessary and recognises her role in remedying the current situation and ensuring a fair outcome for members of the USS scheme. Sign the petition today #OneofUsAllOfUs...
Oh. "Employers have carried out equality impact assessments" have they? That's news to me and I'd like to see them...
#UCUstrike #OneOfUsAllOfUs
www.theguardian.com/education/2022/mar/28/fe...
Dear @UUKIntl and Uni employers.
We strike because we're still fighting for the sector. We strike for its future, staff and students alike. We strike because we care.
Don't complain about us striking.
Fear when we no longer care enough to do so.
#UCUStrike #OneOfUsAllOfUs
Hello @UofGVC
Can you explain how having an overworked, undervalued and demotivated staff gives students a productive learning environment or creates a collegiate research environment?
#TeamUofG #WorldChangingGlasgow #OneOfUsAllOfUs #USSMess
There are so many reasons I'm proud to be a Birkbeck student, but the way management treat lecturers is not one of them. #OneOfUsAllOfUs
could offer if working under better conditions, the creativity and the scholarship which is being squandered, the losses all of this implies to public life and social justice, and the better worlds not being imagined or brought into being as a result #OneOfUsAllOfUs
Dear @eag award winners, congratulations to you all! But I'll have to save those celebratory tweets until 23 Feb as most UK universities are in the midst of a strike on pay equity, pensions and casualisation. #OneOfUsAllOfUs
Rather than being on #UCUstrike, I want to be helping students understand the world, preparing to find solutions to environmental challenges and the #ClimateEmergency.
But labor & environmental exploitation are two symptoms of the same disease. Same fight. #OneOfUsAllOfUs ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿
Saving a folder of tweets about UK research and results to post after the #UCUstrikes as I'm not crossing the digital picket line - lots of important things to talk about, but *that's the point*: HE workers deserve employment security to do this vital labour.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
Hey @JortsTheCat - higher education staff in the UK are striking from tomorrow after many years of corporatisation and increasing precarity, any chance of a head boop for them?
#UCUstrike
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#USSmess twitter.com/FionasWriting/status/149...
So @BristolUni has a long way to go on precarity, gender pay gap, racial equity. But it's trying; I believe that.
BUT my students will get jobs across the UK. We need the sector to be strong and fair. Knowledge is a collaboration not a competition. #UCUstrike #OneOfUsAllOfUs
So I'm striking. We're on the verge of burnout. We need more staff, not more redundancies. We need equal pay and equal accessibility. We need stability very. I've never been able to afford to pay into a pension -- but stealing my colleagues' means #OneOfUsAllOfUs 7/?
I have been unable to join my colleagues on the picket line. I have sacrificed wages, but they have also ensured the very visible protests against the absolute state of HE. Thank you to all those standing in the cold and rain on behalf of #OneOfUsAllOfUs.
Solidarity with friends and colleagues starting day two of #UCUstrike #OneOfUsAllOfUs
Stay warm folks. 😊
Solidarity today to those striking to save USS pensions, and for Four Fights (as a PGTA this term this is a very relevant cause!!) #UCUstrike #OneOfUsAllOfUs
This is a bit scary. I just checked my salary. If UK higher education salaries had increased with inflation since 2009 I would now be earning £7,493.40 more per year. https://www.ucu.org.uk/HEsalarymodeller #OneOfUsAllOfUS
Back in 1997 I started at UMIST where there were stickers saying "Parity with Bob" around the campus. Not unreasonably the staff wanted the same pay rise %age as the VC. I misread them as "Party with Bob" and got very confused #OneOfUsAllOfUs
