Going old school on the picket line this morning.
19.11.2025 09:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jchoonara.bsky.social
Author: "Reader's Guide to Capital"; "Insecurity, Precarious Work & Labour Markets"; "Unravelling Capitalism". Editor: International Socialism. UCU activist. Posts in personal capacity.
Going old school on the picket line this morning.
19.11.2025 09:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A mini opera on our picket line this morning.
17.11.2025 11:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hundreds assembling for the national demo at Leicester over university job cuts.
12.11.2025 11:32 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This is tomorrow. Please come if you can!
11.11.2025 12:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dozens of staff stood up and displayed these signs at the beginning of todayβs address by the VC to demonstrate their lack of confidence in him and his ability to impose such devastating staff cuts across the university.
05.11.2025 12:00 β π 12 π 14 π¬ 0 π 1Very proud of my UCU branch for its 15 days of strike action! We stand firm and are planning for further action to force Leicester University to retreat from job cuts. Watch this space for details of a national demonstration in Leicester on 12 November.
17.10.2025 16:17 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Day 13 of strike action at the University of Leicester. Still going strong.
15.10.2025 14:38 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Day 12 of strike action, and a teach-out by our magnificent colleagues in Geography, Geology & the Environment.
14.10.2025 12:04 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Heading 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 0Palestine 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 0Day 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 0Teach-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 0Excellent piece on our strike in the Leicester Mercury.
www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...
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 0Day two. UCU's strike at Leicester University.
30.09.2025 10:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fantastic 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 0A great turnout to our amazing rally today, with emotional speeches and incredible support from students, staff, and trade unions.
24.09.2025 17:48 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Superb Rally Against Redundancies at the University of Leicester, with hundreds of staff, students and supporters. @leicesterucu.bsky.social begins its strike on Monday.
24.09.2025 13:36 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Our 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 0Table 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.
23.09.2025 09:02 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.
12.09.2025 10:09 β π 15 π 11 π¬ 0 π 6Enormously 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 0Strike ballot, posted.
29.07.2025 18:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wrote a piece in response to recent articles in Jacobin, by Hanna Goldberg and others, on Mike Kidron and the theory of the permanent arms economy. Sadly, Jacobin weren't interested, but you can read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
10.07.2025 14:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Indicative ballot results are out!
Click here for more about our dispute: www.uculeicester.org.uk/appeal-to-co...
One of my analyses of the UK strike wave a couple of years back, from the ISJ, has been translated into Spanish (with a new introduction).
www.laizquierdadiario.com/La-vacilante...
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