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It's time for a New Deal for Further Education ⏰ 👉 Parity with schoolteacher pay 👉 A minimum starting salary of £30k 👉 National agreements on workload 👉 National bargaining For too long FE staff have been undervalued and under-rewarded. We need a #NewDealForFE 🚨

In other news eight in 10 primary schoolteachers in England are spending their own money to buy items for pupils who are increasingly arriving at school hungry and without adequate clothing theguardian.com/education/arti…

College leaders are right to call on the chancellor to tackle the recruitment crisis in further education The government needs to use the Budget to properly fund the sector If FE colleges were VAT exempted this year it could help close the pay gap 👇 feweek.co.uk/172-college-le…

Prison education is in crisis. Underfunded and undervalued. It plays a crucial role in the prevention of re-offending. Here's UCU member Andrew Davison shares his experience Find out more about the UCU Prison Education needs a payrise Unlocking Futures campaign here 👉 ucu.org.uk/UnlockingFutur…

UCU UCU Prison Education needs a payrise Andrew is right, the prison education system is criminal Prison Education should NEVER be FOR PROFIT And yet it is! Lock it away and throw away the 🗝️ Let’s get it back under the DfE! Please sign our petition newdealforfe.org.uk

🇬🇭 In honour of Black History Month, we're celebrating the world's first Black professional footballer, Arthur Wharton! Join us for a special heritage event on 19th Oct. at Moor Park High School. Entry is free, but space is limited so arrive early. #PNECET | #PNEHeritage

Thank you Anaesthetists United 🙏 Such a wretched state of affairs that GMC, instead of listening to these concerns, is fighting them 😔

How many students like Mohammed will defend their thesis during a genocide? How many Palestinian students were not given a chance to finish their education? Palestinians have the highest literacy rate in the world. They deserve an education and a life free of Israeli terror. 🇵🇸

🚨 This A&E nurse is right... “All we're getting is that we're not working hard enough, we're not working fast enough, we're not seeing enough people”

We've written to the prime minister today calling for his government to increase the rate of statutory sick pay, £116 a week is not enough to survive. Alongside 23 other unions we are saying: ✊ It's time for #SafeSickPay bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🚨Over 300 staff threatened with the sack at Coventry University Those who stay to be forced to work for a subsidiary company with new staff unable to access TPS. Our members at @CoventryUCU have our full backing & a strike ballot is on the cards. ucu.org.uk/article/13796/…

We are disgusted that Coventry University Vice Chancellor has been named a Non-Executive Board Member at the Department for Business and Trade whilst threatening over 300 staff with the sack 👇 CoventryUCU Read more 👉 ucu.org.uk/article/13799/…

If elected as UNISON General Secretary; I won't accept the full £166,000 pay package. Instead, I will take the pay of a social worker and ensure the rest of the money goes to UNISONs Industrial Action Fund and our There For You charity! My pay goes up when your pay goes up!✊

On the Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social picket line

We demand pay parity with schoolteachers, national bargains, manageable workloads and investment in #FE #newdealforFE UCU

Congratulations @USIC_UCU! Let’s end this uncertainty & disruption Cardiff University! We don’t want to do industrial action. You don’t want us to. There is an alternative!

Reform UK talks big on apprenticeships but you can’t build skills for the future on poverty pay. College lecturers are the lowest-paid teachers in the UK. This must change.

Reform tried to shut down five care homes in Lancashire. UNISON and the community stood firm and stopped them. We can defeat Farage and his hateful, anti-worker politics. Huge well done to UNISON North West & local campaigners, showing the way✊ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. ucu.org.uk/article/14380/…