🔥⚡️The first Precarious Liverpool newsletter is ready to read! ⚡️🔥 Please share widely and feel free to get in touch with any questions. drive.google.com/file/d/1lpO7rZ…

We do! "The academic precariat deserves better" ft.com/content/330268… via Financial Times

Durham part-time and fixed-term teachers/researchers: are you experiencing issues with contracts/pay/workload/well-being? Please get in touch!

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DUCU Zoom meeting today at 13.00.

🚨⚠️ Durham UCU members, check your email for background information and a unique voting link to participate in an important consultative ballot RE: strike action relating to face-to-face teaching. The email is from UCU head office. Ballot closes January 8th!

URGENT! UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge account was locked by Twitter, claiming that the account is operated by underage people. Please tweet to @TwitterSupport to demand that the UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge account is reinstated. Thanks!

January will be focused on pandemic workloads. Please vote in the thread below so we can all see where we’re at. Voting is anonymous, but if you feel able to comment as well, please do. #AcademicWorkload RTs welcomed. 1: has your workload changed because of the pandemic?

No one should be asked to travel across the country whilst Covid cases are this high. Every institution needs to follow UCL's lead and ask students to stay where they are, if they are able to. theguardian.com/education/2021…

Disappointed that Sonia Sodha can write 800 words on university student #rentstrikes & frame #COVID19 & marketised education as purely a British student issue and NOT ONCE mention the dire treatment of international students. FYI Sonia: redpepper.org.uk/locked-out-dur… #ShortSighted

In today's Financial Times, UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge discusses the plight of international students made destitute during #COVID19. As URBC states, international student destitution is the result of #HostileEnvironment & no recourse to public funds (#NRPF). ft.com/content/3ab6be…

URGENT 👉Are you an international student in the UK? 👉Have your or you in the process of being suspended for not paying your tuition fees? 👉UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge wants to speak to you! We are working w/ Channel 4 News on a piece. DM or email us: [email protected]

Dear students, As members of the University and College Union, UCU, we have unfortunately had to take the very difficult decision to strike on Monday February 22 and Tuesday February 23 2021. We are striking because UEL plans to make four members of academic staff compulsorily

Durham UCU statement of #Myanmar/#MyanmarCoup. We extend our solidarity to striking staff in Myanmar’s universities facing violent intimidation,eviction threats, and risk of arrest. durhamucu.org.uk/ducu-myanmar-s…

A general meeting of Durham UCU passed a motion opposing the new detention centre for women being planned at Hassockfield in County Durham. You can adapt it for your union branch here - docs.google.com/document/d/1Tc… Follow Abolish Detention - Hassockfield + get involved in their actions

Join us for our day of action against Galliford Try on Thursday! ☎️Call them to ask them to stop working on the Hassockfield detention centre! 📲 Tweet to let everyone know what kind of business they like! Email [email protected] for script and social media pack ✊

🚨PRESS RELEASE🚨 Over 1,000 UCU members at the University of Liverpool are expected to take industrial action for up to five months in a row over job cuts. University of Liverpool UCU #CeasefireNow Anthony Liverpool Echo Full story: ucu.org.uk/article/11518/…

CALL TO ACTION: banner drop this May Day weekend! 1st-3rd May ✊ Read on for details 👇

There are numerous problems with the case for changes to our pensions being presented by our employer and other USS Employers. As ever, Sam Marsh is on point. x.com/Sam_Marsh101/s…

Got a pensions email from the uni? Hold up! Before doing anything: 1. Read the email from Jo Grady which landed this morning. 2. Watch the recording of this event from with Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social, Sam Marsh & lots of great folks: youtube.com/watch?v=qOjqfm… 3. Look out for more from us.