Andy Williams

Welsh; unions; #bi/#pan 🩷💜💙🏳️‍🌈; #BWithTheT; anti-#Spycops; interested in journalism; @cardiffUCU media; resistance is fertile 🌱; [email protected]

[Andy Williams @llantwit]

This from Radio Wales is the most comprehensive take yet on @cardiffucu’s win in the @CardiffUni dispute.
Worth a listen if you’re staff, a student, a trade unionist, or are just interested in the detail of what’s (& what fights remain ahead).
@UCU
✊🔥💖
https://t.co/cTk9HVXTm2

[UCU @ucu]

Nottingham VC Jane Norman called plans to cut 700+ jobs and axe 40+ degree programmes “exciting.” Staff disagree.

Today a marking boycott begins. 62 days of strikes follow from June.

We will keep fighting.

https://t.co/1aDYpkOaSp

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Birmingham bin workers are striking over pay cuts of up to £8,000.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

interesting to me that polo shirts are rooted in sport (polo, tennis, and golf) but seen are more respectable and even quasi-business attire simply bc upper class white men played these sports. football jerseys, basketball shorts, and women's athleisure are seen differently

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

I hate this government. Most people who are born in this country don't study A-level English or read/ write at that 'standard'.

[Dan Evans @dai_alectic]

Worth voting plaid for this policy alone tbh. Ridiculous that the WG has allowed Wales to fall behind England on childcare policy. If this is rolled out it will be transformative

[UCU @ucu]

Trade unions came together yesterday at the TUCG fringe to address assaults and threats faced by workers across the UK.

Our president spoke about the reality facing members: worsening conditions, rising pressures and the need for a collective response.

No worker should face violence or intimidation at work.

[21group @21percentgroup]

Former PM David Cameron once called UK universities the “best part of Britain”

Vice Chancellor of Birmingham says that "no political leader would say that now"

True, but ...

decline is mainly due to acts of politicians & University VCs

https://t.co/3KO9nADMg1

[Jon Pountney @JonPountney1]

Today's the day folks! VALLEYS opening tonight, at Clwb Ffoto in Newport. Photos from the book, photos not in the book, limited edition prints, stickers... It's all go. See you there!

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

When Labour loses the support of white voters in working class heartlands: 'We must listen, engage and rebuild trust.'

When Labour loses the support of Muslim voters in working class heartlands: 'Dangerous sectarian voting!’

[UCU @ucu]

From today, staff at Durham University begin working to rule.

No more covering for the hundreds of jobs that have been cut.

Staff will work strictly to contracted hours and withdraw goodwill.

Universities cannot operate on unpaid labour.

https://t.co/xEgDeQpNeH

[21group @21percentgroup]

University student population of Gorton & Denton is ~ 5000, concentrated in Gorton

Young graduates with student loans in G&D are ~ 8000

This is significant voting block of ~ 13000

Govt policies on student loans / universities contributed to this punishing by-election loss

[Dan Evans @dai_alectic]

The idea the green vote is an ethnic bloc vote obscures their broader social base & appeal. Younger, highly educated people who have been totally fucked by the British political economic model. Screwed in job market, housing. A huge constituency almost totally ignored by labour

[Cardiff UCU✊🌱 @CardiffUCU]

Cardiff University alumnus speaks about the massive debt that profiteering has caused him and many, many others.

When will government realise the folly that is marketised education and privatised public services? And the toll it takes on people's lives?

https://t.co/QclB0ahacP

[Cardiff UCU✊🌱 @CardiffUCU]

Pssst...

Wanna know the best way to great wellbeing? Good pay and working conditions

Wanna know the best way get to good pay and conditions? Strong unions 💪

David and Andy (AKA the dream team) speaking with colleagues during a staff wellbeing event today.

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

Reform UK have manufactured an argument with a Welsh university.

They contacted a student group at Bangor University (who are separate to the Uni) asking them to hold an event for them.

When the group said "no" Reform threatened to cut their funding.

This is totally manufactured faux outrage.

It is the equivalent of me going up to someone and saying: “please can you host a party and can I come?”

Them saying “no I don’t like you” and me saying that I am going to take their money away.

Reform have repeatedly dodged interviews with journalists in Wales. They banned certain journalists from councils they run in England.

I would suggest this makes this sudden desire to protect free speech nothing more than hypocritical opportunism.

[UCU Scotland @UCUScotland]

Fears for job cuts at Aberdeen University. UCU’s strike ballot in its final days. Vote yes to action to oppose the cuts! #SaveHE #StopTheCuts https://t.co/vEy8HgRUDE

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

"Lois Austin brought a claim against the Metropolitan Police after protesters were kettled at Oxford Circus on May Day 2001. A case that ultimately went to the European Court of Human Rights. Carlo Soracchi had been inside that kettle posing as a fellow activist."
#spycops

[UCU @ucu]

Devastated.

A student describes how it felt hearing the campus is set to close.

A large proportion of Essex's Southend students are local.

Closing it strips opportunity out of the community/

[Andy Williams @llantwit]

Man confirmed dead as police issue update on 'serious incident' at Cardiff University - WalesOnline reports.
https://t.co/kdN3kmZf7K

[21group @21percentgroup]

Early day motion on pension cuts in UK higher education

Already, there are huge votes for strikes at Northumbria & Southampton Solent Universities over pension plans

Ask your MP to register support

https://t.co/hoRKbHxLgV