Rachel Minshull

Leeds-based FE lecturer and trade unionist. Interests: Photography, politics, feminism, veganism, literature, music, architecture and real ale.

[Steve Sanderson @stevesando1]

A young Cuckoo demanding even more food from a tireless Meadow Pipit. Bodmin moor this morning.
@CBWPS1 #birdphotography #birds #BirdsSeenIn2023 #birding #BBCWildlifePOTD #BirdsOfTwitter #NaturePhotography #birdwatching #TwitterNatureCommunity

[UCU Leeds City College @uculeeds]

Flash Reminder; our final picket of the first round of strike actions will be at our Keighley Campus, tomorrow morning from... Early. 🤣

Likely depends on the choo choos. 🚂🚂🚂🚂

#Ktown #UCU #ucuRISING

[UCU @ucu]

The #RespectFE rally in Leeds yesterday looked brilliant 🤩

Solidarity with our members at @uculeeds, @HarrogateUCU, @UCUBradfordColl and @KirkleesUcu ✊

#RespectFE

[Rachel Minshull @RachelMinshull2]

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[UCUYorksHumber @UCUYorksHumber]

At the #RespectFE rally today in Leeds with @uculeeds @UCUBradfordColl @KirkleesUcu It's time for a decent pay rise in further education colleges across the country!!!

[Rachel Minshull @RachelMinshull2]

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[UCU Leeds City College @uculeeds]

#Solidarity #Forever
@ucu @UCUBradfordColl @KirkleesUcu

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Today's #loveeducation rally at @leedscitycoll 's Quarry Hill campus. Thanks to everyone who attended and supported!

#RespectFE #ucurising

[UCU Leeds City College @uculeeds]

Great to see so many colleagues at our UCU Luminate Education Group picket outside of our #printworks campus this morning.

Solidarity to colleagues across ALL industries made to take such drastic action

#ucurising #respectFE #industrialaction #payupcollin

[UCU Leeds City College @uculeeds]

Media personality and Luminate Group Branch Secretary Linda Littler. ✊✊✊
#ucurising #RespectFE

[Dorreh Khatibi-Hill @dorikh]

I teach my students to stand up for themselves and here’s my turn! @UCUYorksHumber @uculeeds @yorkshirepost @BBCNorthPR #TeachersOfTwitter #TeachersStrike

[DogsOnPicketLines @dogsonpickets]

Stella, Dolly and Ted. No, not a folk rock supergroup, but stars of the picket line! #RespectFE #dogsonpicketlines

[UCU Leeds City College @uculeeds]

Our collective Industrial Action campaigns (#RespectFE and #ucurising ) are just one string to the bow of the army of FE lecturers, students, organisations and supporters looking to leverage #peoplepower for a fair deal in FE.

Add your voice:
https://t.co/hZTId7Qtbl

[Alice Nutter @alicenut1]

Chumbawamba: working class kids, squatted, pooled our dole and used our time creatively. That option not open to working class kids now. Britain’s ever-harsher welfare system means that now only the rich can afford to make art | Alex Niven https://t.co/UscpMPNJUF

[Kilroy Was Here @1kilroywashere]

Government ‘to cut £250m from social care workforce funding’ in England https://t.co/hV8RiHtKQN @johnpringdns @paulapeters2 @blueannoyed @charlotteh71 @AnitaBellows12 @SueJonesSays @LindaBurnip @EllenClifford1 @InclusionLondon @BenClaimant @DPACSheffield @vamroses

[Shaista Aziz 💙 @shaistaAziz]

The truth behind ‘luxury hotels’ housing asylum seekers. @TownsendMark reports on @MigrantVoiceUK interviews of asylum seekers in London living in windowless rooms with no change of clothes, served food so dire its blamed for causing diabetes
https://t.co/JdCrvnp0c5 #Refugees

[Women's Aid @womensaid]

📢 The #EmergencyAlerts sound will take place this Sunday at 3pm, even if your phone is on silent. If your phone is switched off it will sound when switched back on. Here is an #Apple guide so you can opt out of alerts to keep your device from being detected. 🔄Pls share.

[Harriet Wistrich @HWistrich]

Safe housing denied to 10,000 women in England fleeing domestic abuse | Domestic violence | The Guardian https://t.co/rubkfOwR0A

[LEEDS 2023 @LEEDS_2023]

Fancy celebrating a very special short film festival on the 21st-22nd April with us? 📷

Grab some tickets to join us at the @Everymancinema
here: https://t.co/2c55KWPqLc… #leeds2023

[Jenny Elliott | Travel and Culture Writer @thelittleadven]

My article about some of the many reasons you should visit #Leeds during its year-long celebration of culture, including murals, music and Yorkshire pudding wraps:

https://t.co/6jsZtjMCCi

@LEEDS_2023 @TravWriters

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Born #OnThisDay in 1921 was Mary Jackson, @NASA's first black female engineer. She developed expertise working with wind tunnels and analysing data on aircraft flight experiments, and eventually became an equal opportunity specialist to help women & minorities. #WomenInSTEM