Chester the picket dog 🐶 has joined these early National Education Union UCU West Midlands Region strikers! As a parent & a teacher-educator & UCU member I agree with Chester that the govt needs to invest in school staff - for our kids now, & for our students to have decent future jobs #ucuRISING #PayUp

Huge turnout at Worcester strike rally. Great to meet up with WorcesterUCU & big thank you to my fave National Education Union staffer David Muritu for ferrying me here while I am immobilised to give my support! UCU #ucuRISING ♥️

Sleep well & good luck on the picket lines tomorrow UCU crew - massive shout out to all the students joining the solidarity day & all who are there with solidarity, hope & snacks every time UCU take action. Students & workers, unite & fight! #ucuRISING 🪧📢✊🏾✊🏻♥️

. UCU West Midlands Region get amazing student support across FE & HE. In advance of UCU student-solidarity day, some pics of student support at pickets, rallies & demos from the last few years #ucuRISING ♥️📢✊🏾✊🏻🪧.

Let’s go UCU West Midlands Region! It’s v early & v cold but today AstonUCU Birmingham UCU CoventryUCU Keele UCU Staffs-UCU UCUglos UCUHAU UCU Newman Uni Bham Warwick UCU Wolverhampton UCU WorcesterUCU & students are bringing the heat to the employers! @ucu #ucuRISING 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Over the border in East Mids big student-staff strike day solidarity to UCU HE members fighting back today including DMU UCU says JOIN A UNION Leicester UCU @LboroUCU @uculincoln University of Nottingham UCU branch UCU Northampton UCU Derby - from your neighbours UCU West Midlands Region! #ucuRISING

Solidarity with UCU members including our Brum branches AstonUCU UCUatUCB BCU UCU Birmingham UCU & UCU Newman Uni Bham from Brum legend Soweto Kinch (and David Muritu longtime supporter of course!) #ucuRISING

Stourbridge paying tribute to #BriannaGhey tonight. Glad to be able to give the young organisers unequivocal support from UCU. Mourn the dead, fight for the living. #HerNameIsBrianna 🏳️‍⚧️🕯

Great atmosphere at National Education Union strike rally in Birmingham! Solidarity from UCU West Midlands Region! #PayUp #ucuRISING

Our branch chair Rhiannon bringing @UCU support to the Midlands National Education Union strike rally & announcing our strike action. #ucuRISING

Wednesday Budget Day rally: assemble 11.30, to start at 12 Eastside Park (near Parkside Building) #ucuRISING

Look out London, the Birmingham NEU massive are coming! #SaveOurSchools #March15th

Massive turnout to #SaveDudleyLibraries ⁦UNISON Dudley General lobby⁩ Solidarity from ⁦NEU West Mids Region⁩!

. Midas incredible at Love Supreme

Instead of working with the branch to resolve the situation University of Brighton has doubled down & announced the final 25 people they want to make redundant. Let us be clear, these people are not going anywhere! We will shut down the uni until their jobs are safe! #savebrightonuni

Big up Little Simz for showing support for the Palestinians.

Brilliant!

Keffiyeh delivery from Palestine arrived today - thank you Handmade Palestine. Pause on international orders from Palestine for a week currently but please support as still taking donations & other fairtrade Palestinian beautiful stuff- please see here: handmadepalestine.com/en-gb 🇵🇸

The excellent Bob Vylan calls out I D L E S, Sleaford Mods and all the other cowardly "leftie" bands who refuse to call out the slaughter of children in #Gaza. "F--- Idles! F--- Sleaford Mods!" Live in #Dublin tonight. Irish Artists For Palestine Irish in Gaza

Solidarity with Unite UCU !