@WolvesUCU

Account of the University of Wolverhampton UCU branch. ✊🏽 Educate ✊🏻 Agitate ✊🏾 Organise ✊🏿

 Wolverhampton, England
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Joined June 2019
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
Jo Grady
@DrJoGradyJul 28
Replying to @SophyRidgeSky
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Jo Grady
@DrJoGradyJul 28
UCU have been calling for a balanced and funded education system for decades. This is why we welcome Andy Burnham’s announcement today. It must be matched by real investment - including in staff wages. And we cannot allow working class kids who aspire to breakdown class barriers to be left behind either.
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
Strathclyde UCU@StrathclydeUCUJul 7
You aren’t paranoid if you think the government hate universities, students and knowledge creation.
Times Higher Education
@timeshigheredJul 6
The Department for Education has confirmed that universities will receive £50.9 million less in teaching grants next academic year. Bridget Phillipson, the education minister has defended the reduction in light of tuition fee rises. [link in comments]
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A quick overview of why we are taking industrial action, the current status of our fight, and how you can support those taking action. #UoN #UniversityOfNottingham #UCU #UoNUCU #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
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Proud to confirm a speaker from @GoldsmithsUCU is coming to @UCUNUbranch AGM next week, and we're happily donating to their fighting fund too - solidarity! @ucu
UCU
@ucuJun 8
“No redundancies ever again." That's the message from students and staff at Goldsmiths today. This is the third round of cuts in five years. Hundreds of jobs are at risk. Staff taking lawful industrial action have been hit with 100% pay deductions. Enough is enough. #NoRedundanciesEverAgain #Goldsmiths #UCU
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU
@ucuMay 26
“A complete disaster - not just for students and our members, but for the UK's independent rescarch capacity” @DrJoGrady on new survey data showing universities cutting jobs at a scale not seen in years. 44% cutting courses. 31% cutting research.Two-thirds eyeing mergers. ft.com/content/ded7dfbd-de0d…

UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students

‘Very sharp downturn’ in enrolments risks hitting economic innovation and academic pipeline, lobby group says

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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU
@ucuMay 13
600 jobs at risk at the University of Nottingham. Nearly 2,700 staff have received at-risk letters this week. This is devastating for our members, the university and the city.
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU
@ucuMay 12
“Asleep at the wheel.” The government has sleepwalked into a higher education crisis that we have been warning about for years. 24 universities facing potential insolvency. Thousands of job losses. Course closures. Campuses sold off. @DrJoGrady is calling for an emergency higher education taskforce so ministers directly intervene.
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Solidarity with @WolvesUCU @UCU_Ulster @GoldsmithsUCU and all other branches recently informed they are facing huge job losses. As well as those with ongoing longer term plans for cuts.
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
Heriot-Watt UCU@UCU_HWUBranchMar 17
We are once again on strike. We would rather not be. We would prefer @HeriotWattUni to remove the threat of compulsory redundancy. We rarely use X now. Please look for us on 🦋 hwucu, and on the other places.
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Replying to @UCEA1
@UCEA1 @TPScheme
UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT!@UCUNUbranchMar 4
Please RT and share widely! Another day, another amazing message of support for @UCUNUbranch strikers, fighting for pay and pension justice @NorthumbriaUni, this time from an international Northumbria Student Nurse 🫶 ucu-unn.org.uk/blogucu/329-n…
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Leicester UCU@leicesterucuFeb 13
Ballot results are out! 71.47% in favour of strike action 73.44% in favour of action short of a strike 51.77% turnout
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU Northern Region@UCUNorthernFeb 10
Northumbria University will be hit with ten days of strike action from Thursday 12 February in a fight to save staff pensions ⁦@UCUNUbranch⁩ ⁦@ucu⁩ ucu.org.uk/article/14401

10 strike days begin this week at Northumbria University over pension 'robbery'

Northumbria University will be hit with ten days of strike action from Thursday 12 February in a fight to save staff pensions, UCU announced today

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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU
@ucuFeb 9
Staff at @UCUEssex are on strike from Thursday. Management must rethink its decision to cuts jobs and close the Southend campus. Join us on the picket lines and hear from @nowak_paul at Thursday's rally ucu.org.uk/article/14402/7-d…

Seven days of strikes over Essex Uni job cuts begin Thursday

Staff at the University of Essex will begin seven days of strike action on Thursday 12 February in a fight over plans to axe 400 jobs and the resulting threat to student provision, UCU announced today

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🎶🎶🎶A musical message for @UCUNUbranch members...and for those in @NorthumbriaUni trying to freeze staff pay!
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
Leicester UCU@leicesterucu9 Dec 2025
VC loses confidence vote:
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU
@ucu10 Dec 2025
Essex students found out their campus was closing from a link in a WhatsApp chat. 800 students uprooted. 400 jobs cut. One university in crisis. Students and staff deserve better. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9z…

University of Essex student 'devastated' by campus closure

Four hundred staff jobs are also being axed in cost-cutting measures by the University of Essex.

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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU
@ucu17 Nov 2025
Solidarity with all colleagues in Sheffield today! Send your support!
Colin Bingle@bingle_colin17 Nov 2025
Sadly, my ex-colleagues @sheffielducu are on strike today due to the inability of the @sheffielduni management to reconsider its ideologically driven reorganisations and staff cuts. @ucu 🤔ucu.org.uk/article/14239/Mas…

Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job...

A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.

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48 courses have already been suspended. University council is expected to sign their death certificate. No music, no languages, no mental health nursing. Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
FIGHT BACK AGAINST COURSE CLOSURES Rallies outside Council: 1pm - Monday 24th November 10 am - Tuesday 25th November South Side of Trent Building All welcome UCU

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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU
@ucu13 Nov 2025
In just under 4 hours we will be LIVE! Be there.
UCU
@ucu7 Nov 2025
🚨 GETTING THE VOTE OUT ACROSS THE UK! 🚨 This Thursday, join us LIVE as branches from every corner of the country share how they’re driving the YES vote home. 💪📮 🗓 Thursday 13 November, 7PM 📺 Watch on UCU X and YouTube Every conversation, every reminder, every ballot in the post counts. If you haven’t voted yet, do it now. If you have, get your colleagues to do the same. VOTE NOW. VOTE YES. #WeAreTheUniversity #UCULive
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Wolverhampton UCU retweeted
UCU
@ucu10 Nov 2025
📮 3 days left to vote safely! Get your ballot in the post and make sure it arrives on time. Vote YES for fair pay and a real New Deal for FE. #VoteYES #NewDealForFE
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