Utterly shocking attack on free speech. National UCU needs to condemn this immediately and demand an apology. GreenwichUCU
Royal College of Art UCU ✊ RHUL Casuals Birkbeck UCU
UCU UEL LSE UCU KCL UCU still demands pay restoration SOAS UCU
Roehampton UCU is #UCURising Imperial College UCU
Goldsmiths UCU UCU UAL UCU Westminster #ucuRising #OneOfUsAllOfUs #UCU
UCU at London Met is #rising

Today (Tuesday 20th February) management ordered Queen Mary University of London security to break into the Queen Mary UCU office behind the Queens Building in order to remove posters expressing solidarity with Palestine.

NEW: USS refuses to review its investment links to Israel

It is shameful that the finding of plausible genocide by the ICJ is not enough for USS to consider its investments in the Israeli war machine.

Our letter to USS👇

ucu.org.uk/article/13472/…

🚨 NEW | Plans to axe 40 firefighter posts in Avon STOPPED by campaign against cuts.

At a meeting with 60 firefighters and supporters rallying outside, Avon fire authority today decided to halt the dangerous plans.

When we stand together, we can win💪

This is outrageous and shocking! Solidarity with our comrades Queen Mary UCU

🚨Emergency lobby of Parliament🚨
𝘾𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙉𝙤𝙬!
Wed 21 Feb 5pm
Parliament Square

It is looking increasingly likely that Israel will launch a ground attack over a million Palestinians in the makeshift mass refugee camp in Rafah on the border with Egypt by 10 March.

This week is #HeartUnions week 🩷 A chance to spread the word about why unions are vital for everyone at work, and encourage people who aren't yet in a union to join.

Working in post-school education? We are the union for you 🙌 Join UCU today 👉 bit.ly/3OJdmjk

The RSA Union is today calling for a boycott of the Royal Society of Arts, more info on the dispute here: iwgb.org.uk/en/post/royal-…

Our colleagues UCU London Region have already publibly pledged their support! ✊

🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨

Protest outside Google’s London HQ in support of the No Tech For Apartheid campaign!

Google & Amazon workers are demanding an end to the Project Nimbus contract with Israel, which is complicit in the surveillance & oppression of Palestinians.

Solidarity! ✊🇵🇸

As Brig Newspaper makes clear, our VC was awarded this grotesque pay rise while staff were striking and some of our students were homeless

Principal branded 'greedy Gerry' after accepting £68,000 pay rise during cost of living crisis brignews.com/2024/02/09/pri… via Brig Newspaper

Come to our Love the Arts & Humanities digital rally on Mon 12 Feb 6.30pm to support branches under attack. Hear from activists fighting against course closures & redundancies & about previous wins. All GS candidates have been invited. Register here: tinyurl.com/LoveArtsHumsRa…

🚨BREAKING: The government has announced authoritarian ‘minimum service levels’ for the fire and rescue service.

This legislation seeks to ban firefighters, control staff and other workers from taking strike action.

The Fire Brigades Union will resist in every way possible.

#stoptheSHAMcuts #thisisNOTtheend
In November managers Oxford Brookes declared 48 jobs “at risk” with 20 needing to be cut. Our campaigning, negotiating & balloting have reduced the number of compulsory redundancies to two. We still intend to reduce that number to zero. 1/2

Israel has killed at least 94 Palestinian university professors in its war on Gaza.

Our members paid tribute to them today during the #StandWithGaza rally at the University of Oxford 🇵🇸

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The Tory attempt to bring back employment #tribunal fees is a deliberate attack on working class people.

An employment tribunal is a worker's last chance to get justice when employers treat them poorly, where a case concerns unfair dismissal, victimisation or discrimination.

Today our alumnus Maisara Al Rayyes would have turned 29. He was a brilliant student, a devoted doctor & a proud Palestinian. He's one of the many innocent lives taken away in this terrible war. We will continue to say your name, Maisara. We will continue to fight until 🇵🇸is free

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'I retire today after 23 years as general secretary in the knowledge that, working with PCS reps at all levels and our dedicated PCS staff, we have built PCS into a campaigning, fighting union.'

Read Mark's full message:
pcs.org.uk/news-events/ne…

#PCS #MarkSerwotka

* Who will you vote for? *
TODAY 12.30-14:00 - National Hustings for @UCU General Secretary.
Join ReadingUCU and Proud #ucuRISING committee members at the National Hustings to hear from all 4 candidates.

Register 👇
ucu.wufoo.com/forms/hustings…

UCUsouthern Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social Jo Grady Ewan McGaughey Saira Weiner #FreeGaza

Protect the right to strike march and rally tuc.org.uk/events/protect…