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Heriot-Watt UCU (@ucu_hwubranch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Vote, vote, vote Aberdeen folks! It's really vital. Do it before you forget. Solidarity Aberdeen. Let them know they are not on!

Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco (@joshpizpom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Aberdeen UCU members have overwhelmingly voted to support strike action against the University of Aberdeen over plans to cut single honours language programmes. The union cited the threats of redundancy for over 30 members of staff as another reason to take action.

Heriot-Watt UCU (@ucu_hwubranch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join a Union If you're in a union tell your mates to come and join you. #HeartUnions They can help protect your pension, protect jobs and fight for workers (and sometimes you get a hat 🥳)

Aberdeen UCU (@aberdeen_ucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢📢📢Rally to #SaveUoALanguages Monday 17.30 Students and Staff, let's send a message to court! Sign up here to let us know you're coming. Joint rally with Aberdeen University Students' Union ticketsource.co.uk/ucu-aberdeen/t…

📢📢📢Rally to #SaveUoALanguages Monday 17.30 Students and Staff, let's send a message to court! Sign up here to let us know you're coming. Joint rally with <a href="/ausatweet/">Aberdeen University Students' Union</a>  ticketsource.co.uk/ucu-aberdeen/t…
James Sumner (@jamesbsumner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thread. HE people: now would be a good time to ask your libraries' senior mgmt if they've read the BL report, whether they appreciate the risk of outsourcing to monopolistic vendors leaving them essentially helpless if anything goes wrong, and what they're doing about it.

UHI Shetland EIS FELA Branch (@eisfelashetland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Courses at UHI Shetland are under threat. Cuts to Community Learning will impact Shetlanders from the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds the most. EISFela UHI Students @ShetNews @SIBC @shetlandTimes @ShetIslands #CollegeCutsKillCommunities

Courses at UHI Shetland are under threat. Cuts to Community Learning will impact Shetlanders from the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds the most. <a href="/EISFela/">EISFela</a> <a href="/UHIStudents/">UHI Students</a>  @ShetNews @SIBC @shetlandTimes @ShetIslands #CollegeCutsKillCommunities
Jim Dickinson (@jim_dickinson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In other words, redundancies and closures were part of the plan - albeit not necessarily a plan that involved 37 (44) universities in England all enacting them in a single academic year (with plenty of others engaging in quiet recruitment freezes).

Dr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 (@drscottarthurmp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It was good to start my week at a rally with EdinCol EIS-FELA at Edinburgh College in Edinburgh South West- I brought respect and solidarity from Heriot-Watt UCU. FE lecturers care deeply about our students and the sector. With students starting back next week, it is time that the

It was good to start my week at a rally with <a href="/edincol_eisfela/">EdinCol EIS-FELA</a> at <a href="/edinburghcoll/">Edinburgh College</a> in Edinburgh South West- I brought respect and solidarity from <a href="/UCU_HWUBranch/">Heriot-Watt UCU</a>. 

FE lecturers care deeply about our students and the sector. With students starting back next week, it is time that the
Queen Mary UCU (@qm_ucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

SURVEY! The brilliant people Open University UCU are seeking input from across the sector on the current state of redundancies: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Please help out, it doesn't take long but will be key in getting a sense of the impact of the shrinking of HE and how this has been handled

SURVEY! The brilliant people <a href="/oubucu/">Open University UCU</a> are seeking input from across the sector on the current state of redundancies: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Please help out, it doesn't take long but will be key in getting a sense of the impact of the shrinking of HE and how this has been handled
Heriot-Watt UCU (@ucu_hwubranch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The ongoing drawn out dispute with UCU staff is damaging our union. It's time for UCU to: ✊️Agree an external investigator & TORs for an examination of UCU work culture. ✊️Listen to H&S concerns ✊️Open pay talks ✊️Settle the dispute ❤️ our staff Solidarity Unite UCU