My heartfelt thanks to the organizers and attendees for an absolutely amazing research day. I had a blast! 😊

This government’s strike-breaking agency worker regulations, which allowed agency workers to fill in for those on strike, are quashed as of TODAY. The High Court ruled they were unlawful.

Honestly, I would happily read an essay on how 'moral' has been used by UK HE leaders in the current dispute. It is 'morally wrong' to withdraw marks from students, but morally right - indeed a moral imperative - to withdraw 50% of salary for months on end. 1/2

Today we shut down University of Brighton to protect staff & student conditions! We won't return to work until every single compulsory redundancy is rescinded! 🚨Join our Twitterstorm ⏰10-11am 4 Sept #Brighton25 #SaveBrightonUni #BrightonUniStrike #BoycottBrightonUni University of Brighton

This is a motion I am submitting to Monday's EGM of Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social. I hope it is as calm as can be expected. I think it addresses the key concrete issue at hand (we rejected a weak offer & then had the rug pulled out from under us by UCU) & offers redress. Happy to discuss.

The UCU Anti-Casualisation Committee committee at their last meeting took the decision to tweet in support of Unite UCU's ballot result. Unfortunately the tweet appears to have mysteriously disappeared within minutes, but here's a screenshot

"many working class leaders, men who in fact have used the ladder, have been dazzled by this alternative to solidarity. Yet, the ladder is a perfect symbol of the bourgeois idea of society, bc while undoubtedly it offers the opportunity to climb, it is a device which can only be

🧵I’m standing for UCU GS because we desperately need change and an industrial strategy that is fit for purpose & equipped to deal with the challenges we face. Over the last year I co-chaired UCU’s Climate & Ecological Emergency Committee (CEEC) with the fantastic @peterrhwood /1

Yes, Durham University literally saying a lower % of income spent on staff is better. Our employer's committed to a weird project of profit-maximising in a non-profit, at the expense of the people (staff/students) who are the uni & they claim to serve. Join & participate in your union

A new work on Gramsci's thought as groundwork for the dev of a new democratic politics. Un nuevo trabajo s/ el pensamiento de Gramsci como base para el desarrollo de una nueva política democrática. The Antonio Gramsci Society UK Gramsci a Catalunya Tricontinental Institute for Social Research Gramsci Research Network Práxis e Hegemonia Popular