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Thom Giddens

@thomgiddens

Critical, comics, and cultural legal scholar and enjoyer of geek culture. Lecturer @LawDundee. (Follow @LexComica for Graphic Justice.)

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Feminist Legal Studies (@fls_journal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Solidarity with UCU members on strike yet again across the UK this week. Real pay has dropped 20%, significant portions of the sector are on precarious contracts, pensions are being cut by 35% & workloads are unmanageable. Our working conditions are students’ learning conditions

UCU (@ucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This vice chancellor didn't know how many staff he employed on insecure contracts at Oxford Brookes University... Well we've done some digging for him: 75% of teaching-only staff and 30% of all academic staff are on HOURLY PAID CONTRACTS. What a disgrace. #OneOfUsAllOfUs #UCUstrikes

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I agree with this point at least. Universities (and MPs) need to fix the problems so students can have good and sustainable learning environments. Instead of the collapse of the HE sector that is currently taking place. #UCUstrike

UCU (@ucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Things can’t go on like this. Not for staff or students. We all deserve better from a sector that can afford better. That’s why our picket lines are the frontline of the fight for higher education’s future.” Read Jo Grady in @TheTimes👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/4f4cab…

Jaz @jasibp.bsky.social (@jasibp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Brilliant teach out from Kojo Koram on the Birkbeck UCU pickets today, discussing the material legacy of the British empire, and challenging us to think about what decolonisation of the university really means given the historical links between empire and our institutions

Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social (@newcastleuniucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today's comic is about WAGES... Our wages have seen real life decreases of 20% over the past 10 years. Meanwhile our VC's pay has seen a 20.6% INCREASE since 2015...

Today's comic is about WAGES...
Our wages have seen real life decreases of 20% over the past 10 years. Meanwhile our VC's pay has seen a 20.6% INCREASE since 2015...
SOAS UCU (@ucusoas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Students! Want to help end the pensions strike? Tell your VCs to support the UCU proposals! The UUK consultation of member unis ends tomorrow, so the time to act is NOW! See the video from SOAS UCU below, and please share widely #USSmess #OneOfUsAllOfUs ✊

Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social (@the3dge0fsan1ty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re barking mad about pay gaps, casualisation, unmanageable workloads, real-terms pay cuts and pension theft on the UoDUCU is pure raging #Savethe632 picket line this morning. UCU Scotland UCU Solidarity Movement #DogsOnPicketLines #UcuStrike #FourFights #OneOfUsAllOfUs

We’re barking mad about pay gaps, casualisation, unmanageable workloads, real-terms pay cuts and pension theft on the <a href="/DucuUo/">UoDUCU is pure raging #Savethe632</a> picket line this morning. 
<a href="/UCUScotland/">UCU Scotland</a> <a href="/ucu_solidarity/">UCU Solidarity Movement</a> #DogsOnPicketLines #UcuStrike #FourFights #OneOfUsAllOfUs
UCU (@ucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

24 universities collectively amassed a £2.2bn surplus in 2020-21 Yet they claim they can only afford to offer staff a 1.5% pay rise and have to cut pensions We're striking because universities have the money to treat staff properly, but they choose not to #OneOfUsAllOfUs

24 universities collectively amassed a £2.2bn surplus in 2020-21

Yet they claim they can only afford to offer staff a 1.5% pay rise and have to cut pensions

We're striking because universities have the money to treat staff properly, but they choose not to

#OneOfUsAllOfUs
Thom Giddens (@thomgiddens) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If striking hasn't worked so far (years of strikes, but the issues haven't changed), is more striking the best move? Just wondering if there are alternatives to doubling down on the same strategy... #UCUstrike

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Hello Maddie Moate and Greg Foot ! We made a garden gym, inspire by Let's Go Live! Just discovered your archive of excellent streams which the boys are ploughing through. :-)

Hello <a href="/maddiemoate/">Maddie Moate</a> and <a href="/gregfoot/">Greg Foot</a> ! We made a garden gym, inspire by Let's Go Live! Just discovered your archive of excellent streams which the boys are ploughing through. :-)