Come to this and start asking the right questions about the false deficit narrative that is being used to take away our pensions

We're ready for a week of strike, pickets, debates, music, poetry, quizzes, games, love and organising for the future we want! We want to win on both #USS and #FourFights, and together we will! Please come along ✊🏽♥️ #OneOfUsAllOfUs UCU

Tomorrow, join 1000s of university staff across the UK on the picket line. We want fair wages, workloads & treatment, a stable job & a secure old age. Exploitation isn’t a model we will preserve for the next generation. Beep, bring us a cuppa/biscuit or just stand with us

Want to know why unis invest in new shiny buildings while offering poverty wages ? Want to know how glorious mgmt claptrap can harm students’ & staff mental health? Join us to talk financialization, ethics in finance & #USSmess pensions at 14:00 today at tinyurl.com/ucudigitalpick…

Huge solidarity to the beautifully creative & generous students & staff Royal College of Art UCU ✊. That the RCA senior management team intentionally broke a commitment made at ACAS is disgusting. They are trying to wear you down with these peaks & troughs. Shame on them & all power to you ✊🏾

Employers don’t just want us to be underpaid overworked, unfairly treated & at their beck & call (casualisation) during our working lives. No - they’re giving us a 35% cut to our guaranteed benefits so we can have an insecure, miserable retirement! #ucustrike #OneOfUsAllOfUs

🔥🔥 Important chance for London #UCUstrike branches to make their voices heard! UCU London Region demo this Tuesday 22 Feb #OneOfUsAllOfUs #UCUstrikes #Solidarity

The gratuitous attack on #USSmess is part of a wider attack on staff pensions. See below! To think that employers will fix USS’ problems at the next valuation or that we can win this without fighting now is naive. We need hard action now! stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-… #UCUstrike

Unis have cut guaranteed pensions by 40% + hire staff on prolonged insecure & unfair Ts&Cs. Unis charge extortionate fees to students. This destroys mental health #UniMentalHealthDay VCs & principals need to stop gaslighting us by pretending to care. #OneOfUsAllOfUs #ucustrike

As our dispute drags on, the mismatch between how universities claim things are and the conditions university staff are actually living becomes ever starker. A thread on rhetoric vs reality for striking English staff at the University of Bristol. #OneofUsAllOfUs #FourFights 1/8

🚨‼️ BREAKING: USS trustees have confirmed that the basis for cuts has disappeared, as assets hit £88bn. We need you to urgently: ❌ Lobby your VC to ask UUK to revoke the cuts: ucu.org.uk/article/12114/… 📝 Sign the emergency petition to the JNC chair: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/uss-cuts-are-n…

BREAKING: Bill Galvin resigns as #USS director "I made a total mess with #USS. I fabricated a deficit to axe members' pension while my salary jumped to £756k. Now that even the trustee says UCU is right, it's time for me to go. To all USS members I only want to say: sorry!"

BREAKING: We have learned that Queen Mary University of London management is considering using external staff from Curio, an Australian Higher Education consultancy Curio Group, to try to break our marking boycott and grade student essays. A 🧵 on #TheCuriosCase: 1/13

1. With the current rate of inflation at 11.1%, the pay of UCU staff has now been eroded by well over 20% compared to 2009.

This isn't just an attack on our members. It is a bonfire of arts and humanities courses.

Do you want to take part in UCU strike action? Are you a teensy bit nervous because you’ve never picketed before? Would you like a picketing buddy? My DMs are open; I’d love to buddy up. I’ll be on the UCU picket lines on 24 (Reading), 25 (London) & 30th Sep (negotiation).