UCU Southern Regional Committee

Official Twitter account of the @UCU Southern Regional Committee. Editorship rotates at regular intervals.

[Winchester UCU @WinchesterUCU]

@hughbon did you know that a few years after accepting an honour degree from @_UoW, management are one of only a handful in the UK vindictively docking staff their entire pay if they participate in lawful action short of a strike by undertaking a marking boycott

[Queen Mary UCU @qm_ucu]

2 weeks into our MAB! We hope @UCEA1 sees sense soon, but to ensure branches under the worst threats can keep going for as long as needed, we’ve redistributed £13,000 of the donations branches made to our local fund last year and which we haven’t had to tap into yet.
#ucuRISING

[Moray McAulay @MorayMcAulay]

@UCU and @NEUnion members striking together for fair pay at Havant and South Downs College @ucusouth #RespectFE

[Winchester UCU @WinchesterUCU]

End of picket rally at Winchester. Picket energised by news from @ucu about next week’s ACAS talks #ucuRISING

[Winchester UCU @WinchesterUCU]

Still got Greta’s support @ucu #ucuRISING

[Southampton UCU @SouthamptonUCU]

Oscar is ready on the picket at Avenue Campus this morning 🐶 #ucuRISING #ucustrikes

[Sussex UCU @sussexucu]

Chair of Student Council @SteveJack on @GBNEWS "Once students have a conversation with striking workers they come to understand two things... Responsibility sits firmly with vice-chancellors and these striking workers are standing up for all of us"

#StudentSolidarity #ucuRISING

[ucugreenwich @ucugreenwich]

The dancing pickets are back! (description: a group of people in coats and hats, filmed from the side, dancing back and forth across a cobbled gateway with cars passing on the road) #ucuRISING

[Dr Katherine Weikert @kateweikert]

I'm unable to be @WinchesterUCU pickets today but I'm still on strike. I'm so upset for my colleagues about insecurity and precarity, and how they affect us AND our students. But I hate not being able to be there. #ucuRISING is not just about pay. @ucu #CatsNotOnPickets

[Oxford UCU @OxfordUCU]

Join us outside English at 1000 for Poetry on the Picket!
#ucurising

[Exeter UCU @ExeterUCU]

We’re accepting requests for the picket line playlist! Answers in replies! @ucu #ucuRISING

[Moray McAulay @MorayMcAulay]

Strong support for fair pay at University of Winchester this morning. @UCU @WinchesterUCU @ucusouth #UCURising

[Darren Paffey MP @darrenpaffey]

Strong turnout at Southampton’s joint union rally 💪🏼 and a pleasure to speak.

Instead of racing through laws to sack our nurses and teachers, this government needs some ‘Minimum Service Levels’ of its own, starting with turning up to negotiate!
#PayUp #SaveOurSchools #strikes

[ReadingUCU and Proud #ucuRISING @ReadingUCU]

We are not 'isolated' . We are part of a movement.

We are @UCU and proud.

@ReadingUCU @NEUReading @drjogrady @readingtuc @reading_labour @WokinghamLabour @MorayMcAulay #ucuRISING @ucusouth

[ReadingUCU and Proud #ucuRISING @ReadingUCU]

We couldn't resist... what a poster...what a branch...what pin ups @ReadingUCU 🤩

@UCU #ucuRISING @DrJoGrady @MorayMcAulay @ucusouth

[Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social @zenscara]

Common question = how to prove loss of earnings if hourly paid without deductions clearly marked on pay slip (hours you struck were not worked/logged)

DO NOT WORRY!

Evidence can be a rota/contract/email confirming work schedule + proof you logged strike action so pay lost

/4

[Winchester UCU @WinchesterUCU]

We’re demonstrating outside a board of governors meeting and they’re pretending not to see us #UCUstrike #ucurising

[Oxford UCU @OxfordUCU]

"Where were you in '22?"

Photograph: James Manning/PA

[Southampton UCU @SouthamptonUCU]

❤️🪧 Highfield looking STRONG outside the building where seniors are based… hope they can hear all the solidarity honks 🥲 #ucuRISING #ucustrike

[UCU Southern Regional Committee @ucusouth]

Excellent to see @ReadingUCU members at the @ucu today. USS pensions have been effectively stolen

[ReadingUCU and Proud #ucuRISING @ReadingUCU]

@ReadingUCU at the @UCU rally! ✊

Great speeches @nusuk @DaveWardGS @RMTunion @jeremycorbyn @DrJoGrady @NEUReading @unisontheunion