Thanks to all branch members who voted and made sure others did too. While we didn't achieve a national mandate, we showed our strength in branch and will use that energy to move forward. Hopefully this will inspire serious reflection from HQ about the handling of the MAB.

Incredible rally at Leeds Uni✊

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So great to speak to students today and play this fun % quiz game about the reasons why we are on strike. Respect to the student who guessed that SMT awarded themselves a 71% pay rise last year, wouldn’t put it past them 😂

Don’t worry, there’s no need to thank the staff who routinely work over their paid hours at the detriment of their health to deliver this teaching ‘excellence’.

Join us on the picket line this morning for the final day of this week’s strike! We are also running a student information stall today in the main campus square from 11am, so pop down and say hello.

'If the OfS truly cares about quality teaching it needs to stop viewing students as consumers and push for an end to the marketised system of higher education.'

Strikes continue at a no of HE institutions including Keele UCU in UCU West Midlands Region

Digital picket please & thank you - i.e. show solidarity with those taking action through refraining from promoting academic work & events on social media/elsewhere.

Please also support UNISON in Higher Education

We strike because we believe without a doubt that our working conditions are student learning conditions: inequalities and inequities in the workplace undermine our ability to give students the world class education and transformative experience they deserve #ucu #ucu RISING

Funny that ‘local growth’ never applies to staff pay, which continues to fall in real terms. We also desperately need some ‘regeneration’ and ‘recovery’ of staff goodwill and morale.

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Why don't you ask the 100s of staff standing on picket lines this week?

Clue: the answer is not:

-cutting staff pay,
-excessive workloads,
-insecure precarious employment contracts or
-unequal pay based on racial identity, gender identity & disability

Every single strike day is time lost that should have been spent on teaching, research, etc.. UCEA thousands of students & staff are waiting on you to do the right thing, settle the dispute and let us get back to what we do best.

#ucu RISING #ucu #ucu strikes #HigherEducation

Like many unis, Keele University 🐿️ set out to break the union during the MAB. With indefinite 50% deductions they sought to deter, punish, create hardship and division.
We organised wage sharing and hugely disrupted assessment. Now we are on strike all week.
We will NOT be broken.

I hear long-standing @UCU members are thinking about resigning from the union right now.

I sympathise. But I think it is a mistake.

Our employers want to cut our pay, casualise our colleagues, 'restructure' the sector and rob our pensions.

We are the union. #StayAndFight

A reminder as many branches are out on strike day 2 (and some are out on day-much-more-than-that!)

They fight for all of us, so we'll support all of them.

Picket line doggo! #LoveKeele Keele UCU UCU West Midlands Region

Sending solidarity to the staff at Keele University 🐿️ who are having to get back on the picket lines this week to make themselves heard. They are a dedicated and inspirational team who deserve fair pay and working conditions as a minimum. We are with you! 💪 Keele UCU

A huge thank you to the students on BBC News who are rightly laying the blame for today's strikes with university vice-chancellors.

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Keele looking strong!

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Solidarity to Keele UCU on strike this week!

Huuuuge solidarity to everyone out on strike today!

We encourage everyone, even in branches not on strike, to observe the digital picket this week. That means not promoting your work online. 1/2