📢📢📢WE SUPPORT THE #ucurising STRIKES at @UEL_News!!!
Some of us are students, and some of us are super casualised postgrads who have never seen a proper contract. We want better conditions both when learning and when teaching.
WE KNOW WHY THE STRIKES ARE ON.
Which means...
📢STUDENTS: Our research found that UK unis invest an estimated £450mil in companies that supply & finance Israel's military & illegal occupation.
It's time to kick #ApartheidOffCampus!
Find your uni & take action: https://t.co/SzxauBHJhH
Junior doctors have endured a 26% pay cut over the last decade
There is a recruitment and retention crisis in the NHS
Its underfunded and understaffed
The struggles of the NHS and Education are joined
💯 solidarity with every jnr doctor taking action over the next 72 hours
1 day to go to our fifth teach-in session, “What is decolonial feminism?”.
🗓️: Wednesday, April 12th
⏰: 12H00 UTC
Register here: https://t.co/7QMdHsd8bM
🎙️Feeling very proud of this! Created and co-produced this brand new @StuartHallFdn x @PlutoPress podcast😊
It was an absolute joy working with @graciemaybe and @PlutoPress to bring this project to life! Listen to the pilot episode below 🙏
https://t.co/kTgA1bWDBC
T1. Local artists call out - paid opportunity. Have you lived in Newham for a while? Are you an LGBTQ+ performer, musician, theatre maker, poet, drag artist, painter, dancer? Do you have stories to share about our borough and its queer past?
@NewhamHeritage@HeritageFundL_S
We strike for fair pay, safe workloads, fair pensions, and to fight casualisation and equality gaps.
What principles do VCs have, if they don't share these? 🤔
#ucuRISING#UCUstrike#UCU
MANDATE RENEWED!
We've sailed past the threshold and increased the YES vote in the pay and conditions ballot
We are now the first education union to win multiple national strike ballots
UCU and PROUD
#ucuRISING
We are recruiting a new Steering Group! We are looking for people who have moved to the UK to make it their home, and who have experience of the UK’s immigration system.
For more details and to apply🔍👇
https://t.co/IPdmw3eq0n
UCEA is nervous about a national marking boycott, as shown in their attempts to divide us. So hopefully the threat is enough to get them to talk seriously.
But if we have to do a MAB: WE'VE GOT THIS. Branches have done local MABs and are sharing great resources. Some in 🧵+ add!
On 23 Apr '79 Blair Peach 33 year old teacher went to Southall London to protest against the Nazi National Front While on the protest, he received a blow to the head form a Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group officer He died in hospital https://t.co/pRo2ZBuszD @NEUnion@uaf
Today is #InternationalRomaniDay. There is much more for us to do in education:
- GRT pupils are 10x less likely to go to university
- GRT pupils at least 9x more likely to be excluded
- 1 in 5 GRT pupils felt had to leave school due to bullying
- GRT education services cut
‘It affects every aspect of our lives’: Academics say universities must stop relying on fixed-term contracts - Investigations & Analysis - Northern Ireland from @TheDetailTV
@UCU_Ulster
@ucu @ucuatqub @QUBelfast https://t.co/ZXsSaOjev0
My dad also a working class man achieved his dream of doing a phd in his late 40s with #brunobettleheim. He's in his 80s now and I can't tell him what's happened to @QMUL it would devastate him @qm_ucu#ucuRISING