✊✊👉@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are back on strike next week, all week. No-one wants to be, and no-one is asking for more than keeping what we have. For our communities, colleagues, and students, we will never accept the pay and pension injustice planned by management at @northumbriauni.bsky.social
27.02.2026 11:08 — 👍 9 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2
Snapshots from today's protest against staff cuts, an incredible display of solidarity and support from many student groups.
(Photos courtesy of www.instagram.com/amplifyprote...)
Staff at SHU have been informed by the University Executive Board that the university needs to make further savings of £27 million pounds, with £16 million savings coming from job cuts and £8 million coming from changes to staff pensions. Read more at: ucuhallam.org/eqi6
27.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
UCU - Southampton Solent strike begins next week in fight over fire & rehire pension attack www.ucu.org.uk/article/1439...
05.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
QMUL's poster removal: Management threatens staff with disciplinary action over posters and stickers No clarity is given about what is deemed antisemitic Management reduces all Jewish colleagues to one position Possible precedent of repression & censorship .Management refuses to engage meaningfully Management repeats the same statement they issued in February 2024 when they broke into the union office Management claims this is an established policy though they escalate from previous practice
Colleagues were interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about @qmul.bsky.social's sudden escalation in taking down posters & threatening disciplinary action.
It is a great explanation of what's happening & its dangers.
Listen from 22min in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or clipped: youtu.be/SJGnCrDaCf0?...
5 days left
Only 5 days left.
Our jobs, our sector, our future, it all depends on this vote.
Make your vote count before the last safe day on Wednesday.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Reminder to all our Branch members to return your ballots.
29.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
UCU live
📣 Every convo counts. Every vote matters. 💥
Join us Thursday 30 Oct, 7PM for UCU LIVE: Winning it in the Workplace 🗣️💪
Let’s talk about how we WIN THIS BALLOT together! 🗳️
📺 Live on X or YouTube @ucuorguk
www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
Hand holding envelope posting a vote on Industrial action. Most of the photo is a close up of the letter box on a red post box
TODAY. Get that vote in the post 👉
Ballots must be returned NOW. #UCU
@brookesucu.bsky.social
#industrialaction
#OxfordBrookes #University
One of our health and safety officers, Jill Millar, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Jill explains that cuts to time for assessment are being driven by a desire for financial savings. As a result, both the student experience and staff wellbeing will suffer.
19.09.2025 08:36 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Our branch secretary, @stuartwhigham.bsky.social, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Stuart outlines the impact that wider cuts to workload tariffs will have on our Associate Lecturer colleagues.
16.09.2025 09:19 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Our campaigns officer, Maïa Pal, explains why our members should vote yes ❌ and yes ❌ in the local ballot. Successive cuts to research time undermine the research-led teaching which is the essence of a University education.
11.09.2025 07:33 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Text describing why we are asking members to vote yes in the industrial ballot.
Text describing why we are asking members to vote yes in the industrial ballot.
We are balloting for industrial action at Oxford Brookes. 🚨🚨 REMINDER to all members to return your ballots in the post 🚨🚨
09.09.2025 08:54 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Lancaster University is proposing over 450 job cuts, with a Voluntary Redundancy scheme underway and a Compulsory Redundancy scheme likely in September. That means about 1 in 4 staff will be directly impacted. Please sign the petition to show your support: chng.it/cHDm4prxbc
31.07.2025 15:13 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Don't forget to vote in the consultative ballot. The ballot closes on Friday 15th August.
28.07.2025 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Want to hear from UCU’s negotiators before you vote?
Join the online member briefing:
🗓️ THIS Friday 14:00-15:30
📝 Register by Friday 11am:
Ask questions. Get the facts. VOTE.
www.ucu.org.uk/HEconsultati...
Image of Trump with headline Stop the new Tariffs
List of detailed concerns of planned cuts to workload hours.
We remain in dispute over planned cuts to workload tariffs. To find out more and ask any questions please come to the open meeting on Monday 16 June. ALL STAFF welcome!
12.06.2025 12:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Collective bargaining sometimes needs collective barking.🐾
#solidardog #pupsonpickets #SaveUEA
Image of Jane Fonda with the quote 'I'm a big believer in unions. They have our backs, they bring us into community, and they give us power. Community means power'.
Worried about workload? Take action and support UCU Oxford Brookes.
We have an open meeting (hybrid) on Thursday 3 April, 12pm in JHB204. Featuring updates on our concerns with workload planning, finances, research, and the Portfolio Review/Strategic Transformation. In the words of Jane Fonda 'unions bring us into community' so please bring a friend! #BeMoreLikeJane
27.03.2025 14:14 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Today marks the last day of the Miners’ Strike 40 yrs ago. On Saturday in Oxford, we co-hosted an event with @strikemap.bsky.social to celebrate the huge solidarity shown in Oxford and beyond linking these struggles to the present day through culture and the arts to remember our history as workers.
03.03.2025 21:55 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
If you're being approached by SOAS to do marking, be aware that the SOAS tutors are on a marking boycott & you're being asked to scab mark (managers don't feel they should be transparent about it)
hardship fund: gofund.me/71598ef7&sa=...
template motion: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Higher Education is in crisis, which if you work in HE you already knew. Up to 10,000 jobs across the sector are threatened. To our local members and wider stakeholders UCU's new campaign needs support. Step 1 is to sign the petition here: stopthecutspetition.org.uk Thanks! #StoptheCUTS
10.03.2025 16:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder to all our members at Oxford Brookes and UCU members in general. Ballots for the NEC elections need to be completed and returned in the post. The last safe posting day is tomorrow. Candidate details and a recording of the online hustings can be found here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
24.02.2025 10:25 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
'The Miners Strike in Oxford: A Celebration of Solidarity' poster to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike.
@oxfordtuc.bsky.social and strikemap.bsky.social presents 'The Miners Strike in Oxford' event:
https:/www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-miners-strike-in-oxford-a-celebration-of-solidarity-tickets-1205516946639
#NUM @orgreavejustice.bsky.social #StrikeMap #SeaGreenSingers #BannerTheatre
We stand in solidarity with @ucu.org.uk members at Coventry University. Please support the petition calling for their VC to be removed from a government role. speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/remove-coven...
10.02.2025 12:48 — 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
Keir Starmer must stop pandering to the hard-right on immigration.
Our statement 👇
Joint statement from Brookes UCU and Brookes SU condemning University response to protest at Zuckerberg Scholarship lecture.
Joint statement from @BrookesUCU and Brookes SU condemning University response to protest at Zuckerberg Scholarship lecture.
03.12.2024 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🚨🚨 Final URGENT reminder to our branch members to vote in the consultative ballot. DEADLINE IS 5PM TODAY 🚨🚨
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