Our reps and members visited the @pcs_union picket line at Erskine house today to show solidarity to @SodexoGroup workers in their fight against compulsory redundancies ✊❤️
What a wonderful review of where universities now are. I hope VCs, Government, HEFCE, OfS reads this.@Keir_Starmer@ucu
Lorna Finlayson, Irreversible https://t.co/cBX9172iaf via @newleftreview
‼️After over a decade and a half of real-terms pay cuts, staff working in higher education deserve better.
Our consultation with members closes at 12 noon 🕛 tomorrow - have your voice heard and REJECT the offer.
https://t.co/Bf8MTwjcYj
These are not just little local difficulties that will soon be overcome. They are a full on, three alarm, disaster for the sector. It's really hard to see how the staff body will recover. Goodwill has gone. I am glad I am out but worry for what I left behind.
"Academic labour has been transformed, from one that valued the role of academic freedom in the pursuit of knowledge, to one dominated by task orientation and quantification"
@DavidYatesPhD@_ISRF
https://t.co/Ajf5ftTMzn
‼️UNISON's consultation with members on higher education 🎓 pay 💷 closes at noon on 5 June⌛.
Another pay cut 📉 is not good enough and staff deserve better.
If you missed the email, you can have your voice heard here: https://t.co/8xBnqV82Ov
#fundourfuture#fundourpay
Congratulations to Vice Chancellors, their cronies in senior leadership and a special mention to @UniversitiesUK / @UCEA1 👏👏👏👏👏👏
https://t.co/SVra8J26KD
🎙️Today we publish 'A growing crisis in custody', the latest episode in our podcast series.
Inspectors Kellie and Shaun discuss the impact of long waits for mental health beds on patients, staff and prisoners.
🎧Listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/JAGZk0ZAL1
Belfast & District NUJ Branch has long campaigned for justice for Martin.
Kevin Cooper, for the branch, said: “Members cannot believe that, once again, the O’Hagan family are being told to wait for answers. We demand the immediate publication of this long-awaited report.”
Our @UoNUCU members began a 2 month strike today to stop management taking a “wrecking ball” to the uni.
700 jobs to be cut, dozens of courses to be axed.
Thank you to the staff and students speaking out👇
Shame on university bosses for refusing to even be interviewed ‼️
Announcing the @fbunational as the latest national trade union to back the International Anti-War conference in London on 20 June. You're in good company!
Thanks to GS @UnionSteveW for your support!
🎟️https://t.co/kbkg3MfBaL
Not a relaxing watch, but this @abcnews documentary about the grip consultants have on Australian unis and how their corporatisation overturns what unis are is reassuring in a weird way: it is actually happening, however much you're being gaslit.
https://t.co/w7tq77U9nI
Rising sentences for climate and Palestine protesters raise concerns
In 60 percent of cases, individuals ultimately received a final sentence that was shorter than the time they had already spent in custody [on remand] awaiting trial.
https://t.co/BG7GlnNS24