LONG THREAD: Conservatives have now reversed a policy they instituted in 2012, during the first wave of the #HostileEnvironment when they scrapped the post-study work visa. This allowed non-EU university graduates 2 yrs to live & work in the UK. 1/1 theguardian.com/education/2019…

Architectural Workers We completely agree & situate this recent decision as little more than neo-colonial immigration policy in motion where the Conservatives are now playing non-EU migrants off of EU migrants to ensure 'Global Britain' post-Brexit functions. Read here: x.com/UnisNotBorders…

🚨 Tomorrow 6pm @ Hackney Town Hall, with East End Sisters 🚨 If Hackney Council wants to knock Down Marian Court, it should give the families that live there with alternative homes in which they can flourish, not bully them for speaking out. #Justice4HackneyResidents

Shahbana Bibi, Marian Court resident, tells #Justice4HackneyResidents how Hackney Council has pushed her to move her family into unsafe accommodation and then used her concerns to discharge their housing duty to her and tell her she is making herself "intentionally homeless"!

Good piece in today's Guardian Universities written by Dr. Zainab Naqvi #LiberationNow illustrating institutional racist barriers re int' students in UK higher education. UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge FAQ section discusses how colonialism & marketised education creates barriers for int' students: unisresistbordercontrols.org.uk/faq/

Guardian Universities Dr. Zainab Naqvi #LiberationNow GOLDSMITHS ANTI RACIST ACTION ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 Branch Solidarity Network CrisisSOAS Migrants in Culture (inactive account) CAAT Universities York Cut the Rent Lboro Rank & File CardiffUni Rank&File Architectural Workers @beyondbarsuk To further read Dr. Zainab Naqvi #LiberationNow's piece: theguardian.com/education/2019… UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge believes that we should fight for #FreeEducation for both Home *and* int' students. Any efforts to decolonise university must be rooted in ending the #HostileEnvironment & border controls on campus.

“Our vision for a climate just world cannot and will not repeat the same things that got us here in the first place” #ClimateStrike #ClimateJustice

Croydon - almost a week after the ballot opened The Trade Union act is a vicious attempt to undermine the rights of workers and unions We ain’t having it - keep going everyone #WeRiseAgain 🦁

Two of our members feature on the latest Failed Architecture podcast "Architects Unionise!" and talk about unionising architectural workers in the U.K. – failedarchitecture.com/podcast/11-arc… ... The Architecture Lobby Architectural Workers ACAN! Architect Killjoy concreteaction.net

Architecture Workers Are Unionising! – Employment Law and Beyond 📢 ✨ Our next Open Meeting is on Monday 4th November @ 18:30–20:30 (Waterloo). We will be joined by organiser and barrister Franck Magennis 🍉 ✊ Get free tickets at: bit.ly/arch-union

Architects unite! Meet the new workers' union @UVW_SAW fighting against overwork, underpay, precarious contracts, unethical practice and more... ✊theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

"The initiative deserves to gather momentum. For too long, architects have accepted their fate as inevitable; the low pay, long hours and lack of agency.... it’s about time architects came together and recognised the collective value of their labour." theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Join the🐘in the room! ⏰Time to trumpet🎺our successes and celebrate🥳 the jumbo efforts we've made so far! What next after #ElephantJR? 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Run with the herd to Draper House on Tuesday 19th November! All those who❤️🐘, #hategentrification WELCOME

We’ve had reports that architectural workers from a large well-known office have a contract which states they are not allowed to join a trade union! 😱 [1/3]

Dezeen 'remembers' the deaths of great architects and designers in 2019. Let's not forget that architecture is the product of labour done by workers, whether you clean the office, build the models, or produce the renders. dezeen.com/2019/12/31/arc…

Join us next Monday for our London Branch Meeting! bring your experiences of OVERWORK so we can end it together! details here: bit.ly/branchmeet

🚨BREAKING🚨 The 1st global conference of app-drivers, convened by @iwgbunion & supported by Open Society Foundations, will bring together drivers from 23 countries this week! It's the biggest challenge to date for platforms like Uber, Bolt, Grab & Lyft. more info👇 iwgb.org.uk/post/5e2ff05f4…

UVW-SAW condemns the architectural professions inadequate responses to COVID-19 outbreak. In this time of crisis we must come together and put our health and wellbeing above short-term profit ✊ Read our press statement and list of demands here:

We are hearing harrowing stories of architectural workers still being asked to come to work after very serious suspected cases of COVID-19 in their offices. As workers we can collectively refuse these conditions and demand our health and safety is put above company profits! ✊

In these volatile times we need to organise both in our workplaces AND in our communities! We need to be ready to fight collectively – join a renters union NOW!✊ London - London Renters Union Scotland - Living Rent Rest of the U.K. - @ACORN_tweets