@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
The union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of Edinburgh
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social... and the obligatory image of a cute dog on the picket line, musing thoughtfully on how the University of Edinburgh can improve its governance ...
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social... dancing in the streets ...
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social... picket line at Old College (the Law School) ...
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social... picket line at the Old Medical School ...
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialDay 10 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, over major job cuts, worsening terms & conditions, and the continued financial mismanagement of the senior leadership. Scenes from the picket lines reveal how we continue to fight. In this image, members of our UCUE leadership ...
@ucuglasgow.bsky.socialReposted by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialSolidarity with Glasgow Caledonian UCU ✊️ We'll be sending speakers to your rally on October 15th and encourage as many of our @ucuglasgow.bsky.social members to be there as possible! GCU picket times 8-11am, speeches start from ~10am 📢
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialAnd the public speeches and teach-outs keep coming ...
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialZines are also being prepared for people to read at the picket lines ...
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@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialDay 9 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. Camaraderie on the picketlines continues to blossom. Our canine friends are also there in support:
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialUCU Edinburgh is hearing alarming stories of UK universities employing strike-breaking tactics to undermine the various industrial action. The latest story by Novara Media below underscores the depths to which some senior management will stoop to maintain their ethos of profits before people ...
@ucu.org.ukReposted by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialGoldsmiths 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.
📰 @novaramedia.com
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social... We must change our broken system in which a handful of people choose the principal from a consultancy firm shortlist. The Trinity College Dublin model is one idea: principals are elected from within, with hustings, etc. We must take back control of our higher education from the corporate world.
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialDay 8 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh against the job cuts imposed by senior management and their burgeoning salaries. Yesterday, a victory: the Principal announced he is stepping down in 2028. We must, however, change the system that elects Principals ...
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialApologies, we are happy to make the correction that it appears that Peter Mathieson is in fact leaving in 2028, not 2029.
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialThe image is, of course, 'Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks' by Ilya Repin.
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.socialDay 7 of the UCU workers' strike against the job cuts and worsening conditions of staff under the current management regime. Our principal, Peter Mathieson, under whose leadership the cuts & a supposed financial black hole of £140 suddenly emerged, has announced his intention to step down in 2029.
