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Disability rights are human rights. Dont Call Me Special is holding their 1st-ever disability protest to say NO to benefit cuts that harm our community. We assert our right to live with dignity. Backed by Cardiff People’s Assembly, PCS Wales, Cardiff UCU✊🌱, VOICES ADFOCAD unpaid carers

UCU at Cardiff Met University, we see you. We love you. We stand with you. With our voices loud, our hearts full, our fists raised. NO to compulsory redundancies. Yes to dignity. Yes to solidarity. Yes to justice. Solidarity with every worker, your fight is our fight.

A rush to embrace AI risks hampering universities’ net zero targets, with leaders being accused of generally overlooking the “hidden” huge environmental impact of the new technologies timeshighereducation.com/news/heavy-ai-…

"What have the unions ever done for us?" A very bare bones summary of our unpaid activities, meetings, mobilisation and other work to support and empower workers since September 2024:

University of Suffolk staff face job cuts despite being named University of the Year. Management says it must save £3.5m, but staff and students are already paying the price of a broken funding model. We stand with our members. No to compulsory redundancies.

Now do the ranking for gender pay gap, precarious contracts and staff workload. #StrathLife #UCU2025

The UK’s University and College Union has threatened to escalate its campaign against cuts to higher education funding by starting an industrial dispute with the education minister, reports Juliette Rowsell #UCU #industrialdispute timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-threa…

📢UCU Congress 2025 has voted to prepare for an industrial dispute with the Department for Education. Our General Secretary Jo Grady on BBC Radio 4 Today: "The model we have is cannibalising the sector. If Labour is serious about a decade of national renewal, they cannot continue

Pity The Labour Party and - alas - Welsh Government Welsh Labour or Medr not quite catching up on the lessons of C20th yet as we hit crisis of funding UCU Cardiff UCU✊🌱 Cardiff Met UCU Met Caerdydd

Cardiff University has further modified its proposed cuts programme by confirming that it will continue to teach modern languages and music after all ✍️Martin Shipton buff.ly/8gf2lb2

More burning at Arts University Bournemouth Further job losses but Vice Chancellor "deeply regrets ... blah blah" Where else could hundreds of people losing their jobs every single day be treated like background noise -- other than universities? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Durham University ⁦UCU⁩ members will be taking strike action on 13th, 14th and 19th June, over an ongoing dispute with the University. ⁦Durham UCU (@ducu.bsky.social)⁩ have asked the University Executive to rule out compulsory redundancies. They have said “No”.

Please sign to halt outsourcing plans 👇 University of Surrey proposes to employ all new Professional Services staff through a subsidiary company on lesser T&Cs. This is an existential threat to our university & sector. speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/operate-surrey… @UCUSurrey @UCU UCUsolidarity

📢 Durham staff set futher strike dates after management refuse to rule out compulsory redundancies. Durham UCU (@ducu.bsky.social) Jo Grady " instead of reassurance, management has chosen provocation " bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

STV reporting on Dundee strikes Dundee UCU raising risk assessment awareness! and questions to John Swinney First Minister of Scotland: “I understand staff anxieties… but I can’t dictate to an independent institution.” Staff are striking over £35m cuts. We need action. #ucu #StoptheCuts

Opinion: Once praised as key workers, low-salaried university employees dedicated to student safety are increasingly seen as redundancy fodder, says security guard George Bass timeshighereducation.com/blog/no-one-sa…

Universities like to espouse that we are somehow a community. All pulling together for a common project. In reality universities have become ruthless money making machines where individuals jobs are simply an expense on a spreadsheet.

Vice Chancellor of London University suspended after bullying claims 21percent.org/?p=2083 It's about time VC or Registrar or HR Director is taken out for bullying Academia has too many bullies hiding behind policy If accountability’s contagious, it's a pandemic we need

Come down to Newcastle, come up to Newcastle, come across to Newcastle — join the NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION in Newcastle on June 11th. Everyone who thinks HE needs to be supported and accessible to all is welcome! For your agenda's: 11 June, 12-2pm, Newcastle!

Prey do tell, how is all that slashing of Professional Service colleagues going, Durham University? This is why 'efficiency' never is effective in the real world. If you cut your staffing to well below the bone, there's no flex to catch mistakes on time. palatinate.org.uk/exams-interrup…