The RMT delegates at #TUC26 are a happy, smily bunch! 😄

“We’ve sold off all of our assets but kept all of the liabilities… our national debt is a limit on our democracy, we have given a veto to foreign capital, we have got to do something about that."
RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey at #TUC26

This is completely unhinged decision by senior managers at the University of Brighton but says everything about the collapse of our sector. I hope everyone at #TUC26 steps up and turns out at 1.15 today

Thanks to @tuc.org.uk General Secretary Paul Nowak for visiting our stall at #TUC26 and sharing his experience of visiting Hiroshima at last year's 80th commemoration of the atomic bombings of Japan.

Our motion passed. Congress backed our fight to save post-16 education.

From solidarity with Palestine to the fight for wages, jobs and public services not weapons UCU has made its voice heard at #TUC26.

President Dyfrig Jones wraps up a huge day.

Delegates at #TUC26 have voted to condemn the EHRC code of practice and to back self-ID for trans people

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm.

It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance.

58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

"As congress has repeatedly affirmed, all trans identity should be believed and respected, and for all social purposes trans women should be treated as women and trans men treated as men"

Kate Bell, assistant general secretary of @tuc.org.uk speaking at #TUC26

"The new EHRC is discriminatory & excludes trans, non-binary & gender diverse people from swathes of public life, including their working lives. The law must be changed. The EHRC guidance is unworkable, is absurd & it is cruel"

Maria from the @cwunews.bsky.social at #TUC26

"There is no spiralling welfare bill.. PIP is not an employment related benefit.. this kind of misinformation that we see in reporting is so hard to tackle"

Natasha from the @nujofficial.bsky.social tells #TUC26 that social security is a trade union issue. Absolutely.

Powerful speech by Unison member at #TUC26 calling out the disgrace of Shabana Mahmood's immigration reforms which would mean care workers waiting 15 years for UK settlement, while bankers could get settlement in 3 years

... And under a Labour government.

Paul Fleming from @equityuk.bsky.social at #TUC26: "We have seen over 40 years the asset stripping of our state & profiteering in every corner of our economy.. if Labour favours a pro growth agenda it will favour a pro worker agenda & it will favour reversing this trend"

Delegates at #TUC26 have voted to push the government to be 'bolder and more radical' on the economy

"Outsourcing is a bad deal for the country.. and the contractors laugh all the way to the bank, & thats why I'm very pleased we've joined with @unisontheunion.bsky.social
to launch the 'Insource Now' campaign"

Eddie Dempsey from the @rmtunion.bsky.social at #TUC26

"Our national debt.. is a limit on our democracy.. we have given a veto to foreign capital.. we have got to do something about that"

Eddie Dempsey from the @rmtunion.bsky.social at #TUC26. Spot on! 🎯

"We need to end the wasteful outsourcing to failed companies like Capita and Serco, that seize hundreds of millions of pounds shovelled to private companies who then make a mess of our services"

Fran Heathcote from @pcsunion.bsky.social at #TUC26

Thanks to @ucu.org.uk General Secretary Jo Grady for visting our stall at #TUC26 and speaking to us about our #PeopleNotNukes campaign.

Diverting the £240 billion for Britain's new nuclear weapons would save our universities from bankruptcy and free graduates from the burden of debt.

"nobody has been dragged before the courts or prosecuted. Nobody has gone to prison for the decisions they made which led to that fire.. that is a travesty.. today there is no justice for Grenfell"

Ian Murray from the @fbunational.bsky.social at #TUC26

Sanctions must be the beginning, not the end.

Dr Jo Grady at #TUC26: end Britain’s complicity, stop arming Israel and secure safe routes for Palestinian students. UCU will continue fighting for Palestinian freedom. @pscupdates.bsky.social

"Nigel Farage will do you a cameo for £70. Imagine what he'll do for £70 million"

Angela Rayner tells #TUC26