Keele UCU

The nice and accurate tweets of the Keele University branch of @ucu. We support all staff and students fighting for fair HE.

[Keele UCU @KeeleUCU]

Keele has joined the long list of universities seeking cuts to staff. Of course they state this will have ‘no impact’ on student experience. What students don’t love having fewer, more overworked and stressed out staff? https://t.co/HCz6wYwicc

[Winchester UCU @WinchesterUCU]

Solidarity with @huducu. This story is familiar to far too many of us! https://t.co/9e6wzNz7Q4

[Keele UCU @KeeleUCU]

Universities are under financial pressure, and staff and students are being made to pay the price. We urgently need political change to fix this crisis before more jobs are lost.
https://t.co/SJqM2Mu2Nn

[UCU @ucu]

Even David Cameron sees how dangerous Sunak’s attempts to wreck our universities are.

It’s time to end the hostile environment, stop demonising international students, and fund higher education properly.

https://t.co/qPlFduJNWx

[UCU Stirling @UCU_Stirling]

Thanks to all branch members who voted and made sure others did too. While we didn't achieve a national mandate, we showed our strength in branch and will use that energy to move forward. Hopefully this will inspire serious reflection from HQ about the handling of the MAB.

[UCU @ucu]

Incredible rally at Leeds Uni✊

#ucuRISING

[Keele UCU @KeeleUCU]

So great to speak to students today and play this fun % quiz game about the reasons why we are on strike. Respect to the student who guessed that SMT awarded themselves a 71% pay rise last year, wouldn’t put it past them 😂

[Keele UCU @KeeleUCU]

Don’t worry, there’s no need to thank the staff who routinely work over their paid hours at the detriment of their health to deliver this teaching ‘excellence’.

[Keele University 🐿️ @KeeleUniversity]

We’re delighted to have achieved the highest rating of Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2023 ⭐

The overall Gold rating signifies that the student experience and student outcomes at Keele are typically outstanding 🎉

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/CtuibiPFVy

[Keele UCU @KeeleUCU]

Join us on the picket line this morning for the final day of this week’s strike! We are also running a student information stall today in the main campus square from 11am, so pop down and say hello.

[cnhstreet.bsky.social -Chris N. H. Street (he/him) @cnhstreet]

We've just set up the final picket for this week. Come join us for a bit of drum beating! @KeeleUCU @WestMidsUCU

[cnhstreet.bsky.social -Chris N. H. Street (he/him) @cnhstreet]

"If the OfS truly cares about quality teaching it needs to stop viewing students as consumers and push for an end to the marketised system of higher education."

[Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway]

Strikes continue at a no of HE institutions including @KeeleUCU in @WestMidsUCU

Digital picket please & thank you - i.e. show solidarity with those taking action through refraining from promoting academic work & events on social media/elsewhere.

Please also support @UNISONinHE

[UCU Salford @ucusalford]

We strike because we believe without a doubt that our working conditions are student learning conditions: inequalities and inequities in the workplace undermine our ability to give students the world class education and transformative experience they deserve #ucu #ucuRISING

[Keele UCU @KeeleUCU]

Funny that ‘local growth’ never applies to staff pay, which continues to fall in real terms. We also desperately need some ‘regeneration’ and ‘recovery’ of staff goodwill and morale.

[Keele University 🐿️ @KeeleUniversity]

Keele was founded almost 75 years ago to foster societal recovery and reinvention, and that purpose remains our core mission today.

A report published today has placed us among the very best in the UK for contribution to local growth and regeneration ⤵️
https://t.co/9lYo840aRK

[UCU Ulster @UCU_Ulster]

😆 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why don't you ask the 100s of staff standing on picket lines this week?

Clue: the answer is not:

-cutting staff pay,
-excessive workloads,
-insecure precarious employment contracts or
-unequal pay based on racial identity, gender identity & disability

[UCU Salford @ucusalford]

Every single strike day is time lost that should have been spent on teaching, research, etc.. @UCEA1 thousands of students & staff are waiting on you to do the right thing, settle the dispute and let us get back to what we do best.

#ucuRISING #ucu #ucustrikes #HigherEducation

[Keele UCU @KeeleUCU]

Like many unis, @KeeleUniversity set out to break the union during the MAB. With indefinite 50% deductions they sought to deter, punish, create hardship and division.
We organised wage sharing and hugely disrupted assessment. Now we are on strike all week.
We will NOT be broken.

[UCU St Andrews @ucustandrews]

A reminder as many branches are out on strike day 2 (and some are out on day-much-more-than-that!)

They fight for all of us, so we'll support all of them.

[cnhstreet.bsky.social -Chris N. H. Street (he/him) @cnhstreet]

Picket line doggo! #LoveKeele @KeeleUCU @WestMidsUCU

[Rebecca Goldsmith @pennyletters]

Sending solidarity to the staff at @KeeleUniversity who are having to get back on the picket lines this week to make themselves heard. They are a dedicated and inspirational team who deserve fair pay and working conditions as a minimum. We are with you! 💪 @KeeleUCU