Who would have thought it?

This is a great, beautifully written book - so grateful that I got to read it in advance of its publication

Come on, HQ, branches need these brilliant branch organisers to function. We will obviously support Unite UCU in their strike, so get to the table and come to a meaningful agreement before 9 September. #ReclaimUCU

We have a new project! Disability Inclusive Careers in Engineering & the sciences. Funded by an EPSRC impact award, we will be co-designing a toolkit for disability inclusion in industry - please get in touch with the team if you'd like to take part. disc.hw.ac.uk/disability-inc…

A huge thank you to all the UCU branches and members who have been in touch to send solidarity. Our dispute is about the need for a safe, supportive and anti-racist workplace. These are ideals we hope every trade unionist can support. #ReclaimUCU

Unite UCU Lucy Burke UCU We are with you. #ReclaimUCU

These are ideals we hope every trade unionist can support. ✅️ We hear you.

A week from now. Come on HQ. We’ll obviously have Unite UCU’s backs. They help us run out branches, we see how extraordinary they are and how genuine their concerns. #ReclaimUCU

As school begins in England, periodic reminder that schools which choose to reward 100% attendance without equally rewarding disabled children who cannot achieve this for disability related reasons may well be breaching the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act

Thousands of people have suffered similar experiences to us over the past few years. Comrades at Open University UCU have developed this survey to gather these stories. Its aim is to understand better what’s happening & – importantly – how we might better resist. forms.gle/McvcFqtfUJPThw…

FAO UCU members who may have read an email sent out last week regarding the UCU staff dispute and impending strike action. There were some inaccuracies in there, which Unite UCU has sought to address here. I'm sure there is more that could be said. Enjoy! uniteucu.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/uni…

Unite response to UCU president's email to branches of 29 August 2024 uniteucu.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/uni… UCU needs to get serious about negotiating and resolving this now! Solidarity with Unite UCU

Our latest podcast guest, is in the news today. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

It's a month today since we lost our wonderful Agnes. Feeling her absence at our first committee meeting of the academic year. Rest in power, comrade. Members, please check your emails re funeral arrangements. Photo credit: Sophie Chester-Nash

A reminder that we are NOT a charity, we work from the Social Model of Disability, and we have never given any money to shadowy think tanks that want to do away with our Rights. We have however bought a bag of Jelly Tots for the Friends of Alexandra Park Turtles 🐢

important not to conflate a bailout plan for the handful of cash-strapped, mismanaged universities with a reset of the English sector. Unfortunately - the real question is the systemic one: what HE s y s t e m do you want? Funding answers can only follow once you answer that.

So good to see my union @UCU taking part in this 'Cancel the Market' event at The Green Party conference, focusing on the crisis in university education - a crisis of marketisation, privatised student debt & casualisation of academic jobs. #gpconf #gpconf24

DUCU remains wholeheartedly behind Unite UCU in their dispute with UCU management. The testimonies they've gathered from those affected are nothing short of enraging - and depressingly familiar to the kind of stories we hear from UK universities... uniteucu.wordpress.com/dispute-over-a…

It was great to represent UCU on this panel today & to speak alongside our brilliant head of HE Shahenda Suliman, Green💚🌻🍉Molly Zack Polanski Natalie Bennett & the fantastic Amira Campbell Amira Campbell - Guild President. And thanks to the delegates for their questions & the discussion #GPC24

Solidarity and power to you, Nigel, our co-vice chair and comrade. Everyone in the branch sends love and strength for your treatment and recovery. #MOT