University Challenged

[UCU @ucu]

THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE 🚨

Monday 9 January at 7pm is your chance to have a say on the next phase of #ucuRISING action

Join our Twitter Spaces and put your questions to UCU gen sec @DrJoGrady

This is YOUR union

Don’t miss it 👇

https://t.co/41npQM4jKE

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

By 2pm today, January 5th, the CEOs of the FTSE 100 companies had been paid more than the average worker earns in a year.

At 3pm the government announced legislation to potentially allow those CEOs to sack workers who take lawful action to win a fair deal at work.

Sickening.

[Heriot-Watt UCU @UCU_HWUBranch]

Unions for the win

[Staff-Student Solidarity Network Edinburgh @sssn_edi]

Happy to see our UCU branch taking an unflinching stance against transphobia. Transphobia like all oppressive ideologies should not have access to a stage or a megaphone. We encourage everyone to insist on our rights, as a community, to decide what deserves a space on our campus.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

To put in context multi millionaire Nadhim Zahawi threatening nurses & ambulance paramedics with bringing in soldiers to break their strike, it’s worth remembering his expenses claim which included heating his horses’ stables was more than a nurse on starting pay is asking for.

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Zahawi thinks unions are ruining Christmas.

RT if you are sick of the Tories ruining every day of the year.

Millions using foodbanks, in poverty, huge debt, unable to pay bills and a cruel mental health crisis.

We don’t need the army. We need an election.

#EnoughIsEnough

[University Challenged @UniChallenged]

@DrJoGrady Go @DrJoGrady

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Recruitment, recruitment, recruitment.

The longer the picket line, the shorter the dispute.

The bigger the union, the greater the power.

#ucuRISING

[University Challenged @UniChallenged]

@UCU_HWUBranch Brilliant @UCU_HWUBranch. @ProfRAWilliams were you not able to drop by?

If only Vice Chancellors were in touch and listened to us mere mortals. #TrustYourStaff #Listen

[University Challenged @UniChallenged]

@DrJoGrady Thanks for your leadership @DrJoGrady

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

You can’t get time back

Like the time you were ill from overwork

Like the time you missed weekends with loved ones cos of workload

Like the time spent on insecure contracts unable to put down roots

We can’t get back time, but we can get change

That’s why we strike #ucuRISING

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

What a video. What a union.

#ucuRISING

[Heriot-Watt UCU @UCU_HWUBranch]

Warming up on a cold #ucuRISING picket @UCUScotland

[University Challenged @UniChallenged]

@sophysteria @sssn_edi Pls read @UCU_HWUBranch @UCUSPresident @ProfRAWilliams management in uni has failed us

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Tomorrow thousands of UCU members and supporters will be in London for the biggest rally in the unions history

Let me know in the replies where you are coming from

We need this to be massive. Bring friends, family, pets, neighbours, people you don’t like (VCs)

#ucuRISING

[University Challenged @UniChallenged]

@UCU_HWUBranch @UniversitiesUK @UCEA1 What do you think vice chancellor @ProfRAWilliams & @DrJoGrady ?

[Sarah Boyack @SarahBoyack]

Excellent meeting w/ @ScottishLabour Cllrs yesterday re the crisis arts & culture orgs face.
By focusing on mere survival, we're - as @chriswkane said - "stripping away our souls in the communities."
We need a recovery plan for our arts & culture sector & support to our councils.

[Professor Joanne Porter @JoanneSPorter]

Day 4 of strike action at Heriot Watt Orkney campus. Save staff pensions. #solidarity @UCU_HWUBranch

[Guardian Universities @GdnUniversities]

Senior Tories demand Sunak ditches ‘mindless’ crackdown on overseas students https://t.co/ZRuDqtS8P8

[Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway]

Fearing Monday blues after #ucuRISING week?
1) Hold your head high
2) Not all branches are in national bargaining. Support @UcuUsic strike tomorrow in the private sector, & @bcu_ucu where we are balloting outside of national bargaining.
3) Build for biggest day yet Wednesday ✊🏼