UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT!

This is Northumbria UCU Branch: We're also on Bluesky: @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social. Wherever you find us, remember: Shy Bairns Get Nowt!

[UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT! @UCUNUbranch]

@UCUNUbranch

United against bosses @NorthumbriaUni
who want to rip off pay and pensions, rip up contracts, and rip us out of national bargaining.

United for a better future, for staff, our university, our students, our community. Join us.

[Prof. Lopa Leach @LopaLeach]

Indeed. Watching this unfold painfully at UoN. @UoNUCU

[Prof. Lopa Leach @LopaLeach]

https://t.co/I8rLO1T9R0

[UCU Scotland @UCUScotland]

With today's devastating news of another 190 jobs to go at Dundee University, a timely debate on Thursday from @MaggieChapman on 'Sustaining Jobs and Securing the Future of Scotland's Universities'. #SaveHE #StopTheCuts https://t.co/Fnwh5I3QC2

[University of Nottingham UCU branch @UoNUCU]

With a dispute resolution meeting coming up this week, we hope that we can bring our current MAB and strike action to a close.

https://t.co/dor994Dhoc

[Des Freedman @lazebnic]

Goldsmiths often shares the output of its staff to celebrate its reputation. So I’m very much looking forward to them circulating this fantastic article from @phaisie about the strike at @GoldsmithsUoL and the wider crisis of UK higher education https://t.co/a95snjt3lJ

[UCU Scotland @UCUScotland]

UCU statement on additional job losses at University of Dundee. Contains statement from @DucuUo #StopTheCuts #SaveHE https://t.co/gPLvy7rfh3

[UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT! @UCUNUbranch]

Not so quietly in some places: @NorthumbriaUni

[UCU @ucu]

Universities up and down the UK are quietly moving staff out of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme to cut costs.

@ChristineBlower co-chair of our Parliamentary Group, put it straight to the government. Watch their non-answer.

Pensions aren’t a cost cutting exercise. They’re staff’s terms and conditions. Hands off.

[Feyzi Ismail @phaisie]

What’s going on at Goldsmiths… @GoldsmithsUCU @ucu https://t.co/EpQhcHS5tB

[UCU @ucu]

Universities up and down the UK are quietly moving staff out of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme to cut costs.

@ChristineBlower co-chair of our Parliamentary Group, put it straight to the government. Watch their non-answer.

Pensions aren’t a cost cutting exercise. They’re staff’s terms and conditions. Hands off.

[UCU Ulster @UCU_Ulster]

Congratulations to @ucu Sheffield Hallam who have stopped management's threats of moving staff to a subsidiary company on MUCH worse terms and conditions

This is a victory for everyone in UK Higher Education

👏👏👏👏

[UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT! @UCUNUbranch]

Meanwhile, management @NorthumbriaUni are pressing on with unpopular and very costly plans to cut the pay of staff who stay in @TPScheme.

Their line was always 'could be worse...' - well, turns out it couldn't.

@ucu @UCEA1 @timeshighered @H_S_E

Hence:

[UCU @ucu]

Following sustained strike action from @UCUHallam members, management will no longer be forcing staff into a subsidiary company and out of their pension scheme.

This decision is testament to the dedication and hard work of our members.

But the dispute has not been resolved as jobs are still at risk.

The university must now do the right thing and rule out any compulsory redundancies.

[UCUHallam @UCUHallam]

@ucu @UCUYorksHumber @UcuUsic @UCUNUbranch @ucu_solent @UoNUCU @GoldsmithsUCU - solidarity with those currently in dispute & on strike 👊

[Keith Jebb @keith_jebb]

@Heccles94 @UCUNUbranch That Great Replacement has a long way to go…

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.

The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Today’s @independent front page

Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

"The far right requires only that outlets keep asking about ‘two-tier policing’ as though it were an open question, rather than one the Home Affairs Committee has already called “disgraceful” due to total lack of evidence."

✍️ @NafeezAhmed

https://t.co/uRehGqx3NX

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 ‘Northern Ireland Does Not Have an Immigration Problem, It Has a Problem With Violence’ — Emma De Souza

Bad faith actors are exploiting the vulnerabilities of a society scarred by violent disorder and racism, argues Emma De Souza

https://t.co/1zgGiuYvz2

[The National @ScotNational]

📰Tomorrow's front page
Thousands attend anti-racism demonstration that drowns out far-right hate

[Orgreave Justice @orgreavejustice]

Love & Solidarity 💕✊ No Justice, No Peace

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

“We’re in one of the most dangerous situations we’ve ever been in…”

@GedGrebby of #ShowRacismtheRedCard on the threat of the far right and how, working together, unions and communities can challenge racism.
@SRTRC_England