Strike! The Musical

Because anger needs a soundtrack.

[Strike! The Musical @StrikeMusical]

An academic's lifespan the way things are going. Neoliberalism ate our homework, but #WeAreTheUniversity. Keep on being brilliant, brave, bold. Between us, we have every field of knowledge covered & are formidable. #USSstrikes #usstrike #USSballot #USSbriefs #ucustrike #ucu #uuk

[Strike! The Musical @StrikeMusical]

An academic's lifespan the way things are going. Neoliberalism ate our homework, but #WeAreTheUniversity. Keep on being brilliant, brave, bold. Between us, we have every field of knowledge covered & are formidable. #USSstrikes #usstrike #USSballot #USSbriefs #ucustrike #ucu #uuk

[David Graeber @davidgraeber]

on the bullshitization of academic life
https://t.co/9fnsjzr981

[Dr Sho Jacobs 🇨🇦 @shoshanahjacobs]

Bth my husband & I had to bring our baby to class one time ech. Daycare was closed. Bth times, baby was quiet/sleeping.

We both had our students comment on evaluations

Which one of us was called unprofessional, which one of us was called ‘highlight of the course’?
#WomeninSTEM

[Cambridge UCU @CambridgeUCU]

Staff at University of Melbourne going on strike next week to protect their academic freedom:

https://t.co/usQJCNVYGh

[Michael Otsuka @MikeOtsuka]

Here, by popular demand, is a blog post in which I reveal the 'shocking' truth about @UniversitiesUK's 14% USS employer contribution 'skiving' from 1997.

https://t.co/6YH3x6TZSI

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Wanna find out how much you could be earning if our pay in HE had kept up with inflation.💰✅ See below calculator from Unison.👇

I know pay had stagnated, but geeez I'm losing out on a LOT! https://t.co/LF5RodJrBN

[USSbriefs @USSbriefs]

🚨🚨 pensions Expert Panel we all voted for is going off the 🛤️, Will it be transparent? Who will have oversight? We don't know!

ACTIONS:
✅ read our 1-page brief
✅ print & distribute in staff rooms
✅ demand @UCU @UniversitiesUK keep their promises
https://t.co/Z9VMQgRG6p

[Felicity Callard @felicitycallard]

**Calling UCU members**: Joint Expert Panel (JEP) is, at the moment, the only game in town since we stood down from strike action. We can't influence who is selected for it; it won't be accountable to UCU members; & it will meet in secret #USSbriefs22 https://t.co/XpDvw6jJWJ 1/

[Luke Fenton-Glynn @LukeFGlynn]

All interested members following @USSStrike closely should sign up to the @ucu 'activists' mailing list (can be done via UCU website after login). Loads of insider info with regard to @USSstrike there - and currently lots of discussion about who should be nominated for JEP.

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Big message📣 from #UCUtransformed is the need to have a powerful response to the recent pay claim. Not just for #USS members who will be paying increased contributions, but more importantly for lower paid & casualised staff - who need to remain our key priority. #USSStrike

[Felicity Callard @felicitycallard]

*** #USSstrike update *** When we stood down from industrial action, we said that we would remain vigilant. Well, the time to act is *now*, folks.

We currently have a Joint Expert Panel with massive democratic deficit. Follow the @USSbriefs thread below & take action 🔽🔽🔽 https://t.co/ZXoMVxcvxG

[Lee Jones @DrLeeJones]

Here is the document setting out JEP terms, rammed through UCU HEC yesterday with no amendments allowed. It's hugely problematic and needs to be challenged immediately. More soon. https://t.co/oK7WVnYf6X

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

News about proposed formulation of Joint Expert Panel (JEP) emerging from todays #UCUTransformed event. Increasingly looking as though JEP set to be problematic for delivering transparency & unlikely to deliver member voice. THREAD outlining why 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

#USSStrike

[Felicity Callard @felicitycallard]

Sam Marsh argues that even Alistair Jarvis has been emphasizing need to build trust and confidence — & yet we are now told that the joint UUK/UCU JEP will operate with all documentation kept entirely secret. #UCUTransformed https://t.co/6wCcPAISKZ

[Luke Fenton-Glynn @LukeFGlynn]

Now that it turns out that universities are sitting on £44bn having cut staff salaries by 16% since 2009, and now want to cut our pensions on the basis of a spurious valuation, #NoDetriment beyond April 2019 is starting to look more, and more reasonable. #USSStrike https://t.co/1nOrgIntHL

[Felicity Callard @felicitycallard]

It would be great if we – I'm fantasising that the we could be very broad indeed – could establish a collective agreement to stop tweeting university league tables.

For more background on just how pernicious these tables are, see @CLIVEYB's #USSbriefs16 https://t.co/kEmJGS1R4A https://t.co/EegYW8Ygjc

[. @MCabournSmith]

It'll be easy to tell when feminism has gone too far - just look out for women earning loads more than men and killing a couple of them a week. https://t.co/VFcpcgMJM3

[Strike! The Musical @StrikeMusical]

@SocialHistoryOx This is by Mark Rylance, right? Just a coincidence that he happens to fit his own narrow criteria for dramaturgical genius then.

[Strike! The Musical @StrikeMusical]

Yes. Tell that to Dickinson and Blake. And Turner (though not literary). And many other 'geniuses'. I suppose many people of colour don't have the right kind of childhood to be a 'genius' either. Who lives in multiple locations as a kid? What a horrible snowdome of snobbery... https://t.co/ARV5V0AhS8

[Jonathan Healey @SocialHistoryOx]

This is my favourite bit. Jeez.