Socialist, UCU National Negotiator
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On Friday 20 November, UCU members at universities across the UK will come together for a national day of action.
With jobs, courses and the future of higher education under threat, we’re coming together to fight back.
Campaign packs will be arriving in early November to help you get ready!
ALT On Friday 20 November, UCU members at universities across the UK will come together for a national day of action. With jobs, courses and the future of higher education under threat, we’re coming together to fight back. Get involved. Join a protest, rally or event at your university. Campaign packs will be arriving in early November to help you get ready. Find out more: educationitsours.org.uk #EducationItsOurs
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🚨 FRIDAY 🚨
Don't miss the London leg of our International Movement Against War on Tour.
With European and UK speakers including @peter_mertens @LegavreJerome @zarahsultana @DrJoGrady @kate4peace2021 @JohnWRees examining the impact of the drive to rearmament, militarism and war on the cost of living and social welfare across the region.
🗓 Friday 23 October
⏰ 6.30pm
📍 Brunei Gallery, SOAS
🎟️ tickettailor.com/events/stop…
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Key activists from France and across Europe will be bringing eyewitness accounts of the massive protests to a city near you in the coming days.
Don't miss the chance to hear from some of the leaders of a European revolt.
Starts Thursday in Birmingham. Use the QR code to buy tickets.
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Nottingham bought a campus for £37.5m. Spent £40m more on it. Its own accounts say it could now sell for £14m.
Staff and students are paying for that. 609 jobs. Three departments. More than 40 courses.
That's why we're on strike.
thetimes.com/uk/education/ar…
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“There’s no money. What they really mean is there’s no money for you.”
Green Party deputy leader @MothinAli speaking at UCU’s Wages Not Weapons fringe at Green Party Conference.
It’s time to invest in our communities, in education and in people not war.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill addresses the Labour Party conference in Blackpool.
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Thousands of Edinburgh University staff begin strikes in cuts and redundancies dispute #StopTheCuts #SaveHE scotsman.com/news/scottish-n…
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Join the joint UCU and UNISON protest this Thursday 1 October at 12.30 Cockcroft building @uniofbrighton against union recognition and to protect our rights at work @ucu @UNISONinHE
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Solidarity with @UoNUCU from Brighton UCU!
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#InsourceNow as striking outsourced rail workers demonstrate outside Labour Party conference.
📸 Andrew Wiard
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Edinburgh University staff begin five-week strike over £140m cuts #SaveHE #StopTheCuts heraldscotland.com/news/2658…
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Quite right.
As Richard Burgon MP told our fringe at Labour Conference today: pouring ever more money into weapons means fewer resources for higher living standards.
Richard Burgon tells a UCU fringe event that “pouring ever more money into weapons means less for higher standards of living”.
And upping defence spending would “take key resources from other national security [issues]” including pandemics and climate change.
order-order.com/2026/09/28/l…
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Our members at the University of Nottingham will strike this Wednesday and Thursday in their fight against compulsory redundancies and course cuts.
Show your solidarity as they head onto picket lines, ahead of sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December.
ucu.org.uk/article/14666/Uni…
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This letter from JLR suppliers calls for govt support to shift to aerospace and defence and notes how well those are doing right now.
Obscene jumping on the drive to war bandwagon. Why not ask for help to shift to good, green engineering jobs instead!
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwr7…
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🗣️ Announcing some of the speakers for our International Anti-War Conference tour
Fantastic line-ups for Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle and and Glasgow
More names being announced very soon
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Following the phenomenal success of the International Anti-War Conference in June, Stop the War is organising a national anti-war tour which will be visiting a city near you in October.
During the last week of October we will visit 7 towns and cities with a panel of international speakers including @peter_mertens leader of the Belgium Workers' Party Danièle Obono, Deputy of the French National Assembly @LegavreJerome @FranceInsoumise @EiflerUlrike Trade Unions Against Rearmament and War (Germany) @andrewfeinstein investigative author and former ANC MP plus Stop the War officers and other key anti-war activists.
Check out our events page for updates and details for each event. We hope to add more dates and cities soon!
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After the TUC voted for the first time to back a Palestinian-led BDS movement and for an escalation in workplaces to end the complicity of companies and the govt in Israel’s genocide, let's make the next workplace day of action on 26 November the strongest ever!
