I NEED EVERY UCU MEMBER AND SUPPORTER TO RT THIS THREAD. Threats of unfair and immoral pay deductions for taking part for action short of striking continue. This thread exposes those universities that prefer to intimidate their staff than treat them with respect. #ucuRISING

It’s amazing how hard it is for Labour leaders, past & present, to just say “we will raise wages, empower unions & better enforce working conditions” when that’s what they *mean* I’m always assured. So weird that instead they talk about getting rid of low paid migrant workers…

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I NEED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY FOLLOWERS TO RT THIS 70,000 UCU members strike tomorrow. Every university in the UK. Tomorrow we make history. #ucuRISING

Today, 70,000 UCU members begin historic strike action at every university in the UK   They are fighting to save higher education   RT if you stand with them   #ucuRISING

if you’re a FT permanent academic & you’re not on strike, PLEASE rethink. think of the casual staff using food banks. the fixed termers who can’t put the heating on. the future gens who can’t have academia as a future because of crap conditions. it’s for us & them #ucuRISING

We accept that salary is deducted for strike days, however something UNIMAGINABLE is happening at Queen Mary University of London 🤯🤬🥴 QMUL are threatening to dock 100% of salary INDEFINITELY until staff make up the teaching cancelled due to strike 🧵1/n Queen Mary UCU UCU #ucuRISING #UCUstrike

RT you will support rail and Royal Mail workers no matter how much pressure the establishment puts on them in the lead up to Christmas.

Sunak says he's "shocked" to read of Baroness Mone pocketing millions - hasn't he paid attention to rest of his party? Hancock's Covid contracts for his own family? Ex Health Minister Lord Bethell in cahoots with lobbyist Tory MP Owen Paterson? So much for Govt "integrity" #PMQs

Instead of backing 1000s of green jobs & sustainable, long-term economic revival, Govt has backed a climate-busting, backward-looking, stranded asset coal mine. The decision to greenlight this mine is a climate crime against humanity - & we must challenge it every step of the way

This ⬇️ And why are we forcing people to choose between ‘dirty’ jobs and no jobs? Are we simply too lazy to imagine the myriad other things we could invest in, in this beautiful part of the world from good care to eco tourism….?

There's the moral argument for increasing nurses' pay - very strong. Then, there's the economic argument. Want to fill all those vacant nurses' posts? Pay a decent wage, and relieve the pressures of understaffed services.

The cost of meeting the nurses' pay demand - £1.6bn 🏥 Cost of Sunak's bank tax giveaway - £7.3bn 💸 They have the money to give nurses a proper pay rise- they just don't want to. RT if you back a real pay rise for our nurses 👊

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For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help. I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).

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