🚨UCU members 🚨

Our Workload Conference is taking place in person on 20th April from 10.30am - 4pm in Manchester📢

The event will bring together safety reps, workload reps, branch negotiators and workload activists across a number of UCU branches to network and share good…

Conference was honoured to present Julia Waters with the Anne & Fred Jarvis award today at #NEU2024

The award was made in recognition of her campaign to reform Ofsted following the death of her sister Ruth Perry.

'This award is not for me, it's for Ruth.'

It was an honour to hear Prof Julia Waters speak at #NEU2024

She spoke from the heart about her wonderful sister Ruth Perry and the need for mental health support for educators.

“I hope we do learn, and learn quickly. The Ofsted system of inspections is fatally flawed.”

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🚨UCU members 🚨

Don't miss our Workload Conference on 20th April from 10.30am - 4pm in Manchester 📢

Share good practice and hear insights into how the UCU workload campaign could be implemented to build your branch, reduce workloads and secure effective workload agreements.…

🚨 BREAKING: Northumbria University management have backed down from compulsory redundancy threats to academic staff after we balloted for strike action.

Uni bosses across the country should take note: our members will organise to defend their jobs ✊
ucu.org.uk/article/13527/…

#Gaza update

'Hundreds of trucks of UN and INGO supplies are currently backlogged. We could turn this humanitarian crisis around in a matter days.' - UNICEF

'The north remains inaccessible. We definitely have enough evidence that shows there is ongoing starvation.' - Food and Agriculture Organization

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza , it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt at United Nations Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

Slight bit of rain won’t keep us away. We’ll keep holding our placards and taking strike action, until the Executive at Education Training Collective give us a serious offer on pay
#RespectFE
UCU on strike today and tomorrow

ucu.org.uk/article/13489/…

Great support on our UCU picket line at Education Training Collective
Tim Paver, one of our long-standing reps, explains the issues to UCU President-Elect Maxine Looby UCU President Elect and Simon Elliott, Regional Secretary of PCS Northern and Chair of TUC Northern
#RespectFE

Great that Justine Mercer UCU President - UCU National President - has come to Stockton to show her support for our members on strike across Education Training Collective
#RespectFE

You're too kind! 😊

NEW🚨| Anneliese Dodds has just announced Labour will enact dual discrimination provisions within the Equality Act.

This will have a huge benefit to women who face multiple forms of discrimination, as they can bring forward a case based on more than one protected characteristic.

🙌 Maxine Looby UCU President Elect shares what inspiring inclusion means to her this International Women’s Day.

#InspireInclusion #InternationalWomensDay

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day but more importantly we acknowledge how far we still have to go.

It’s time to close this shocking pay gap 👇

#InternationalWomensDay2024 #InspiringInclusion

Lisa Rull moving UCU's motion to TUC women's conference 'End intimate police searches' #TUCWomensConference #NewDealForWomen

At our showing of 20 Days in Mariupol this evening, John McDonnell MP introducing. We will also hear from Ukrainian activists Yuliya Yurchenko and Oksana Holota.

We're raising funds for our medical workers appeal. Please donate + share: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ukraine-medi…

#StandWithUkraine

'Things that would've once been career-ending now get waved through with complete impunity.'

＠mrjamesob explains how right-wing media, government, and think tanks have allowed Michelle Donelan to stay as Science Secretary after wrongly accusing a professor of supporting Hamas.

Excellent panel of strong trade union women at Trades Union Congress women’s conference fringe discussing winning for workers - sarah woolley Leoni Munslow Natasha Hirst FRSA Emma Rose 🧡 Justine Mercer UCU President

Come and join the picket line on Tuesday 12! Bring your friends! Dogs warmly encouraged #SaveUoALanguages

Tomorrow lunchtime at Trades Union Congress women’s conference - now with Justine Mercer UCU President of UCU in the Chair