"It is shameful that university cuts have become so severe under a Labour government that our union is now laying the ground for a trade union dispute with the education secretary." @drjogrady.bsky.social
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#ProtectEducationNow #StopTheCuts #ucu2025
Motion passed to raise a dispute with the education secretary over the goverment's failure to fund our sector
#UCU2025 congress has passed a motion to prepare to raise a formal dispute with the Education Secretary over the devastating funding crisis in higher education.
Our message is clear: if Labour won’t intervene, we will.
#UCU2025 #ProtectEducationNow #UnionPower #Post16Crisis #HigherEducation
UCU General Secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social reflects on a year of powerful union action, hard-won victories, and collective strength.
Watch, share, and stay proud.
#UCU2025
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#UCU2025 #ProtectEducationNow
🎥 Thanks to @bbcnews.bsky.social for covering today’s emergency rally at Newcastle University.
@newcastleucu.bsky.social are standing up against devastating job cuts – and the whole trade union movement is standing with them.
#ProtectEducationNow
📸 Huge thanks to everyone who joined today’s emergency rally and mass picket at Newcastle University.
✊ The trade union movement stands united behind UCU members fighting mass redundancies.
Solidarity makes us strong – and visible #ProtectEducationNow
Unions including @uniteneyh.bsky.social will rally in support of @newcastleucu.bsky.social members tomorrow - join us at the picket line www.tuc.org.uk/events/stop-... #ProtectEducationNow #UCU
Solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social and all those back on the picket lines this morning.
Staff and Students deserve better than cuts and casualistaton.
#ProtectEducationNow #UCU
From Aberystwyth to Spain and every corner of the UK, thousands united to #ProtectEducationNow.
Fair pay, secure jobs, and a future for education.
Thank you to all UCU members, allies and supporters who marched with us.
Together we are stronger,
#UCURally #JoinAUnion
Three Southampton UCU members in front of a UCU banner at a banner in London.
Southampton UCU members at today’s rally in London!
@ucu.org.uk #ProtectEducationNow #ucu #HE
Went to the #ProtectEducationNow rally today. So important to fight for the future of our sector #UCU
At the @ucu.org.uk #protecteducationnow rally. Post 16 education needs a fairer funding model and now is the time to do it!
“They are overworked, underpaid & increasingly on insecure contracts.”
@drjogrady.bsky.social at
#ProtectEducationNow:
• 1 in 2 unis planning cuts
• 10,000+ jobs at risk
• FE colleges stretched to breaking point
Time to fight for funding. #UCU
“College by college. University by university. National action is how we win.”
Shaun Vernell at #ProtectEducationNow warns of 10,000 job cuts & a 20-year crisis.
Fight back. Stand together. #UCU
#Solidarity with everyone able to make the @ucu.org.uk #ProtectEducationNow rally in London today!
Whether working in, studying or just supporting the principles of higher, further, prison, & adult & community education - what's happening to education affects us all!
Rallies aren’t my natural habitat at all. But I am on my way to push through the social anxiety, sensory overload and claustrophobia to say #ProtectEducationNow 👊
"If we want economic growth and net zero, we need to be pumping money into our colleges because they will train the people who will deliver it.” @drjogrady.bsky.social on BBC Question Time last night.
Join us TOMORROW in London to demand change. #ProtectEducationNow
A day before our national rally UEA staff are back on the picket line, standing strong against cuts and redundancies.
Solidarity works.
Let’s bring that energy to London tomorrow. #ProtectEducationNow
“We need Labour to step up.”
@drjogrady.bsky.social calling out to James Murray MP on BBC Question Time tonight.
Universities are in crisis. Cuts are everywhere.
Still no plan from Labour.
Join us Saturday to #ProtectEducationNow
📉 Damning stats from the latest Office for Students (OfS) analysis are flooding the headlines today and new immigration policies are only making things worse.
International enrolments down, staff cuts accelerating, courses vanishing.
We need urgent action to #ProtectEducationNow
Solidarity to @uea-ucu.bsky.social and everyone striking today and tomorrow.
Compulsory redundancies are not the answer.
Join us this Saturday in London to #ProtectEducationNow
📢 Just 2 days to go until thousands of us march to demand urgent action to save higher education. ✊
🕐 1PM Bessborough Gardens, London
#ProtectEducationNow #UCU
Interesting line up this evening #ProtectEducationNow
Catch @drjogrady.bsky.social on BBC Question time tonight, representing education workers and speaking truth on the issues that matter.
#ProtectEducationNow #UCU
Universities across the UK are closing courses, cutting options, and reducing maintenance support.
International student visa changes are making it worse.
Rising costs, shrinking enrolments and short-sighted immigration policies are creating a perfect storm.
We must #ProtectEducationNow
Fantastic to have student support on the picket lines! Our fight is their fight #ProtectEducationNow
📢 3 DAYS TO GO
Join us on Saturday 10 May.
✊ Thousands of members, supporters and trade unionists will march to #ProtectEducationNow
📍 Meet: 13:00 Bessborough Gardens, London
We’re coming together like never before to protect education.
Almost half of UK universities have closed courses due to financial pressure.
Entire departments are being lost.
We need urgent action.
Join us on 10 May when we rally to #ProtectEducationNow
📣 4 DAYS TO GO!
Join thousands of educators and supporters at our national #ProtectEducationNow rally this Saturday in London.
Post-16 education is in crisis, we must stand united.
