Heading in to negotiations on day ten of strike action at the University of Leicester. This is my negotiating team.
10.10.2025 09:14 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Palestine teach-out on the picket line today as part of the national day of action.
09.10.2025 12:54 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Day seven of our UCU strike. A teach-out, from our at-risk Modern Languages colleagues at the University of Leicester.
07.10.2025 12:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Teach-out on strikes in the ancient Greek and Roman world on our picket line this morning.
06.10.2025 10:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nice to have our local MP, Shockat Adam, visit our picket line this morning. We really appreciate his support on this the third day of our strike action.
01.10.2025 12:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Day two. UCU's strike at Leicester University.
30.09.2025 10:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fantastic turnout of staff and students for the first day of our strike against redundancies.
29.09.2025 10:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Superb Rally Against Redundancies at the University of Leicester, with hundreds of staff, students and supporters. @leicesterucu.bsky.social begins its strike on Monday.
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Our friends at @leicesterucu.bsky.social are holding a rally tomorrow at 1pm. All DMU UCU members who are in the area, please consider stopping by to show solidarity!
23.09.2025 08:37 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Table with UCU posters and leaflets
Ahead of @leicesterucu.bsky.social striking from 29/9-17/10 we are at the freshers fair to talk to our students to explain why we are striking and ask them to support us to protect education at Leicester.
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Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.
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Enormously proud of my UCU branch for voting to take action to stop redundancies.
29.08.2025 14:58 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Strike ballot, posted.
29.07.2025 18:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Indicative ballot results are out!
Click here for more about our dispute: www.uculeicester.org.uk/appeal-to-co...
07.07.2025 18:30 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
During today's EGM the branch voted unanimously to request an industrial action ballot that would allow us to strike at the beginning of the next academic year.
#joinaunion
16.06.2025 12:43 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Image showing outcome of ballot - 86.05% in favour of strike, 91.86% in favour of ASOS
Way passed the threshold, #LincolnUCU members have smashed it!
Unless #LincolnUniversity rule out #compulsoryredundancies, we will strike!
06.06.2025 15:48 β π 28 π 17 π¬ 1 π 3
LUCU branch members, check your email!
05.06.2025 17:41 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
UCU Leicester is alarmed to hear that the above areas have been selected for βpre-changeβ engagement.
Read our full response to the announcement here - www.uculeicester.org.uk/the-fight-to...
Join a Union. Strength in numbers β
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IS Journal Writers: Alasdair MacIntyre
Document archive of Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre died yesterday. He's famous as the author of After Virtue, an important work of moral philosophy. But he was at one time among my illustrious predecessors as an editor of International Socialism. Some of his Marxist writings are here: www.marxists.org/history/etol...
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π£βΌοΈTHIS THURSDAYβΌοΈπ£
All Leicester UCU members are invited to our EGM!
πThursday 22 May
πTeams link in email
β°11-12
Turn up, listen & share your views.
This is your chance to have your say, do not miss it!
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Dundee UCU is supporting staff and saying no to job cuts at the University of Dundee. Our campaign to #SaveDundeeUni https://sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/
Historian of health and medicine in the maritime world
Currently a Caird Research Fellow at Royal Museums Greenwich
#FreePalestine / Head of Sanctuary at Uni of Leicester UK / EAP & ESOL / WP / trauma-informed ELT pedagogy for refugees / RefugEAP Network Convenor
Psychology, JDM, running, UCU, personal views
Lecturer in Psychology at Uni of Leicester (based in Brum); Researcher in social determinants of mental health and socioeconomic health inequalities - how they arise, how we think about them and how to address them. LGBT+ Equalities Branch Officer
Associate Professor in Modern European History βHolocaust, Jewish history, migration, fashion & visual culture - author of 'Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos' (UTP 2021)
UCU President, Academic, Linguist
Prof of Applied Geology, U Leicester. Sustainable mineral resources for the green transition. Geology, life, Kernow γγ.
Views personal and do not represent my employers.
Social scientist. Co-Director Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Policy & Management, University of Leicester School of Business. Editor-in-Chief Journal of Health Services Research & Policy https://journals.sagepub.com/home/HSR
Lecturer in work and employment
Fighting for an active-member led trade union.
https://uculeft.org/
Unite branch (LE127) for employees of the University and College Union. unite.le127@gmail.com | https://uniteucu.wordpress.com | https://union.place/@UniteUCU
Mum, trade unionist, lecturer, Ed D student | Chair of BCU UCU, Vice Chair West Mids UCU, UCU NEC | Social reproduction feminism, reproductive labour, education activism.
V tired.
Emeritus Professor of European Studies, Kingβs College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
Tweets by members of the University of Leicester branch of the University and College Union trade union.
Researching European foreign policy and the global South. PhD in Politics and International Relations, EUI, Firenze. Author of: Why Europe Intervenes in Africa (Hurst 2017, OUP 2018); European Foreign and Security Policy (University of Toronto Press 2010).
Writer at The Economist, mainly covering Britain and health.
Forever working on a memoir about brain injury
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