Vital 2 celebrate wins. My pension benefits R fully restored after 69 days industrial action (over years) by my union UCU. Instead of a 35% cut to guaranteed benefits, USS pension scheme has had to restore them. Typical members will be ~£150-200k better off. Worth the fight! ✊

In our open letter, students and staff University of Leeds call for the immediate release of Salma al-Shehab, a PhD student and woman’s rights activist, who was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment in Saudi Arabia on the basis of peaceful tweets: leedsucu.org.uk/open-letter-ca…

'UCU is determined to resist the current wave of job cuts and attacks on working conditions taking place in post-16 education throughout the UK and these campaigns are asking for your support': ucu.org.uk/your-support-i…

‘Black inmates at Wormwood Scrubs ‘disproportionately subjected to use of force’

This why our union - UCU fights so hard for the voices of our prisoners educators to be heard.

⁦UCU⁩ ⁦UCUprisoned⁩ ⁦UCU Equality⁩ ⁦Trades Union Congress⁩ theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

We are without a doubt in the midst of the biggest crisis in HE. Fighting it &surviving is going to be tough. here is a list of UCU wins in the last two years to help with building an organic movement based on exchanges and solidarity between branches ucu.org.uk/article/13054/…?

Bristol’s 'gruelling transport network and pitiless property market' are among the reasons for our city not featuring in the Sunday Times Best Places to Live for the first time in its 12-year history bristol247.com/news-and-featu…

UoL staff and students - pls sign our open letter calling for the release of Salma Al-Shehab forms.office.com/pages/response…

Salma, a UoL PGR student & mother of two is serving a 27-yr prison sentence in Saudi Arabia for tweeting about women’s rights in SA.

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.@bristol_ucu has approved the University pay + grade structure, approved by the University Executive Board in January.

Exec confirmed our member consultation. 90% approval for approving the proposed changes.  
UNISON University Of Bristol Unite the union: join a union bristolucu.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/pay…

.University of Leicester failed to implement “the simplest basics of redundancy law…The bar for making somebody legally redundant in the UK is so low that if you can’t get over that, you really are not fit for the task you are employed to do.” – Simon
timeshighereducation.com/news/academics…

I’m delighted to be re-elected as general secretary, after extensive debates on the future direction of UCU - thank you to everyone involved.

We will work together to build our union, take on employers, and win for members. All our focus must now be on this.

#Grady4GS

Malaka is a UCU member at St Andrews. Her family are in desperate trouble in Gaza and she is raising money to evacuate them into Egypt where she will meet them. Please read her story and donate what you can here gofundme.com/f/help-me-reun…

Love and solidarity to you Malaka

Why are our leaders standing by as Palestinian children, women, men are massacred? The inhumanity! What is the point of you? Do something! #CeasefireNOW

Whatever happened to 'the University of the Year'?
Northumbria University job losses looming as staff warned of £12.5m budget cuts chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

Huge news for all USS members 👏🥳