Solidarity with UCU members striking today, tomorrow and Friday. I did 4 years of precarious, fixed-term and hourly-paid work and it fully broke me (and I came to it with many privileges). The way things are is not tenable, healthy or fair. You deserve better ✊

I've never told anyone this, but I'm raising it now to show how broken UK universities are as my colleagues strike #UCUstrikesback When I was studying for my PhD & working as an hourly paid lecturer I had to sleep in the university library at nights before lecturers. For 2 years

Just reposting this as I've heard reports that the SWP are turning up to UCU picket lines 🙃

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Was really great to join my old comrades Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social (and Durham UCU (@ducu.bsky.social) & UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT!) for the strike rally on my lunch break yesterday. I did three pickets over the years, nothing improved, conditions broke me and I had to leave. Things have to change #OneOfUsAllOfUs

Today we will be thinking about the neoliberal university - a university where most staff are on 120% workloads and management offers you a 'wellbeing seminar' to help you with stress and mental health. That's not the university we want. What does the civic university look like?

That fun moment when you get an email on a strike day and have no idea if it's PhD or teaching related and hence if you can reply. Because guess what...it's not simple to chop a person in two and say they're student & staff. #UCUStrikes #PGRsAsStaff UCU Postgrads

I am a disabled woman from a low-income background. I love my job and I want other people like me to have the same or better opportunities. I've already seen incredibly talented colleagues edged out by overwork and precarity. This can't go on.

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Here's a reminder for the UCU of what casualisation really looks like for its precariously employed members. A 🧵...

Absolutely incredible turnout at today’s protest in London! Teachers, doctors, civil servants, university workers and more striking together. We demand fair pay for ALL 👊 #EnoughIsEnough

👏Congratulations to the winning posters of #MCResearch2024 Charlotte Brigden Early primary care & hospice engagement with patients to think, talk or act on EOLC needs: the ‘Talk’ pilot Dr Julia Pirson Dr Hannah Leach Findings from evaluation of West Glamorgan dementia care & respite service

Great to see the evaluation work of our Marie Curie Cymru West Glamorgan Regional Partnership #dementia care and respite service being recognised! It’s been so valuable in helping us to shape delivery and understand impact! Well done Yma and Dr Hannah Leach 👏