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The UK HE Pay and Redundancies Campaign and Local Fights Against Job Losses The UK-wide ballot on pay and redundancies was announced this week. Ballot papers will go out on 20 October. All five trade unions are in dispute, and, in an unprecedented step, the unions are coor…

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What is going on in Your Party? A row in the leadership of Your Party threatens the whole project—but building an insurgent left alternative remains the priority.

Excellent response to the YP chaos by @tomashtengely.bsky.social socialistworker.co.uk/news/what-is...

Bangor University staff in vice chancellor vote of no confidence UCU union members at Bangor University passed a motion of no confidence due to staff and budget cuts.

A state of emergency in Welsh and UK higher education

A reminder to members to vote in the indicative ballot by October 3rd

Comrades! This casual vacancy election closes tomorrow.

Vote for Bee Hughes as UK-elected representative for HE if you have not yet done so. For a fighting, member-led union #ucu

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✊ “It’s time to build an education service for the many, not the few, not just the privileged.”

- UCU president Maria Chondrogianni at #TUC2025, moving our motion for a fully funded national education service.

✅ Delegates backed the motion unanimously.

At #TUC2025, UCU President Maria Chondragianni challenged Labour on higher education:

“The Tories introduced a failed, marketised model across education. This has been disastrous.”

✊ We will keep holding Labour to account.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity

Comrades! This casual vacancy election closes tomorrow.

Vote for Bee Hughes as UK-elected representative for HE if you have not yet done so. For a fighting, member-led union #ucu

Our ballot to renew our ability to take industrial action at the University of Dundee opens today.

Melissa D’Ascenzio, Dundee University UCU branch co-president, said: “The university’s students and staff have been badly let down.
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Graphic with details of counter protest as included in main text, and photo of a man resembling Jesus holding a placard that says I was a stranger and ye took me in

📣 All out! Defend refugees at the Cladhan Hotel and support #Falkirk anti-racists this Sun 7th Sept. We need to keep up the fight and let the far-right know they are not welcome!

#RefugeesWelcome

📣 Sun 7th Sept, 11am
📍Assemble Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk, FK1 1UF

Defend Our Juries figures arrested in escalation of state repression - Socialist Worker Five members were arrested in a dawn raid on Tuesday morning

Defend Our Juries figures arrested in escalation of state repression

👇A Statement released by the group says “This level of political repression is not what we expect in a democracy"

socialistworker.co.uk/news/defend-...

Zack Polanski elected Green Party leader in landslide victory Polanski received 20,411 votes from the party membership, while Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay’s campaign received just 3,705 votes

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Home Office tells foreign students they will be removed if they overstay visas About 130,000 to be contacted for first time in response to ‘alarming’ spike in numbers claiming asylum

This is completely unacceptable intimidation. Every visa holder is already nervous about their visa, every university. is already draconian about visa compliance. This is just harming students to score headline points with the far right. Stop playing games with our students.

Anti-racists ‘won’t be divided by fascists’ at refugee hotel protests A round-up of the far right protests and the counter-demonstrations to them, which took place across Britain

Anti-racists ‘won’t be divided by fascists’ at refugee hotel protests

👇A round-up of the far right protests and the counter-demonstrations to them, which took place across Britain

socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

Bee Hughes (Liverpool John Moores University)

Please vote for @beehughes.bsky.social in the current casual vacancy elections on UCU HEC. For a member-led, fighting union.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1411...

@ducuuo.bsky.social Dundee University plan to cut 632FTE collapses @ucu.org.uk @uculeft.bsky.social
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One of the funniest pieces of nonsense I've read in a long time about the future for HE. The market solution is:
"... offering more flexible courses, and connecting with the over-50s who never attended university but have money to spare."
@ucu.org.uk @uculeft.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social

My full election statement: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ucu/2025/01/...

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HEC votes for a ballot – and a campaign to save the sector The fight is on to save Higher Education. UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) met on Thursday 12 December to consider what the union should do in the light of the financial crisis hitting our se…

I'm not a member of @uculeft.bsky.social but fully endorse this as an accurate account of yesterday's HEC meeting uculeft.org/hec-votes-fo...

Members deserve to be told the whole story.

Very pleased to read @illdoitanyway.bsky.social election address. I'll be voting for her rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/t...
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HEC votes for a ballot – and a campaign to save the sector The fight is on to save Higher Education. UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) met on Thursday 12 December to consider what the union should do in the light of the financial crisis hitting our se…

UCU Left vote for a ballot – and a campaign to save the sector.

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