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University and College Union (UCU)
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UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
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Education. It’s ours. Let’s fight for it.
@ucu.org.ukBrilliant effort. Join UCU.
@ucu.org.ukDespite disruption, students overwhelmingly back striking staff at Nottingham.
UCU members are fighting job cuts, course closures and the future of higher education.
Stand with them: educationitsours.org.uk/map/
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@ucu.org.ukBuilding solidarity. Strengthening our movement. Fighting for education for all. Philip Proudfoot, researcher at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex, explains why UCU members should explore our new Education. It’s Ours campaign website.
@ucu.org.ukEducation systems cannot do more with less. A new report from Education International highlights the urgent need for fair pay, secure jobs and sustained investment in further & adult education. The findings reflect what UCU members have been saying for years: education needs investment, not cuts.
@ucu.org.ukLSBU wants to sack 66 academics and rehire them on worse contracts before Christmas. That's fire and rehire. Our members rallied on campus today. LSBU has now agreed to talks at ACAS. Management needs to come ready to listen.
@ucu.org.ukOn the latest episode of No Shortcuts, UCU general secretary Jo Grady reflects on Jane McAlevey’s legacy and why mass participation and grassroots organising are key to building union power. There are no shortcuts to winning. Listen now!
@ucu.org.ukAction is happening up and down the country. Now, more than ever, we need to support one another.
Find out where: educationitsours.org.uk/map
@ucu.org.uk"We're here to defend the people that came before us, and the people that come after us."
Nottingham students are backing their staff. Management wants to cut jobs and courses. Staff are on strike to stop it.
Students won't tolerate it and neither will we: 👉 educationitsours.org.uk
@ucu.org.ukWe're building a union that's ready for the long haul.
Education. It's ours is our new home for the fight for higher education. Track every dispute on the strike map.
Get the facts from UCU Briefs. Use the toolkit to organise where you work.
#educationitsours
@ucu.org.ukGoldsmiths has spent £14m on consultants since 2019.
Now it's replacing striking lecturers with staff who need only "an interest in teaching".
Joe Newman, Goldsmiths UCU co-president, on management's strike-breaking.
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@ucu.org.ukHuge result from our members at the University of Lincoln.
85% have voted YES to strike action in the fight to save jobs, on a 60% turnout, with 88% also backing action short of a strike.
Massive solidarity to everyone at Lincoln UCU.
@ucu.org.ukWant to build power in your branch but not sure where to start?
Our new activist toolkit has practical resources to help you organise, grow your membership, build political power and take action in your workplace.
For HE and FE branches.
Get stuck in: educationitsours.org.uk
@ucu.org.ukEducation is ours. Show it.
Change your profile picture and cover photo to back the campaign. Every one is a public sign that staff and students won't accept cuts.
Download yours from the toolkit at educationitsours.org.uk. Link in bio.
@ucu.org.uk“We are ready to talk.”
UCU members at Nottingham are taking sustained strike action against devastating job and course cuts.
The action is having an impact. It’s in management’s interest to get around the table and resolve this dispute.
Support the strike: educationitsours.org
@ucu.org.ukEducation. It’s ours. Now it’s time to fight.
Our new website is the digital hub for the campaign to protect post-16 education.
Find out how to take action, access campaign tools, share your story and use our solidarity map to support disputes across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk
@ucu.org.ukNottingham bought a campus for £37.5m. Spent £40m more on it. Its own accounts say it could now sell for £14m.
Staff and students are paying for that. 609 jobs. Three departments. More than 40 courses.
That's why we're on strike.
@ucu.org.ukHigher education is in a once-in-a-lifetime crisis.
The funding model is broken, jobs are being lost and courses are being cut.
We’re fighting back and demanding the government properly funds our sector.
Find out what’s happening and support the fight: educationitsours.org.uk
@ucu.org.ukUCU members at Edinburgh uni are on strike today.
Over 400 film and TV professionals, including Alan Cumming, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, back their call to reinstate three creative programmes.
Cuts are hitting universities across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk/map/