RT @michael4hec
A quick response on the question of consulting UCU members #ucurising #ucustrikes https://michael4hec.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/is-this-proper/

For those involved in the #UCU industrial action (and beyond!), this Universities & College Union (UCU) podcast episode is useful in explaining, reviewing, and discussing the recent offers made in disputes over pay, working conditions and pensions. ✊

https://youtu.be/MBpOAsISWGs #ucurising #ucustrikes #ucuscotland #UCUstrikeback

Is an end to the #UCUstrikes in sight? I‘m hopeful and sceptical at the same time.

The latest "offer" from ucea is not an offer but a re-statement of what we already have. The rest of the "offer" from uuk is equally meaningless and @ucu 's recommendation to accept is nothing short of a betrayal of the membership who deserve better.
Vote NO in the e-ballot
#ucuRISING #ucu #ucustrike #ucustrikes

Sent in my #ucu ballot today. Regardless of how the #ucustrikes turn out and how the negotiations go, keeping the pressure up is essential to resist the further marketisation of #academia. Let's go

So, #UCU is giving in?

#ucustrikes #strike #UK #university #academiclife

Nuff said.... #ucuRISING #ucustrikes

I wrote this post about my experience striking for the first time as an early career researcher

https://thompsonj.github.io/strikes

Despite the stress and unpleasantness, I've found immense inspiration in the strikes.

@OxfordUCU #ucuRISING #ucustrikes #ecrchat

Your periodic reminder that these #UCUStrikes are not just about pay, whatever the press says. They’re about
— untenable workloads and unacceptable levels of stress in the workplace (for less pay)
— unacceptable levels of casualisation (for less pay)
— structural discrimination and let’s face it, open discrimination in many cases too (for even less pay)
— massive cuts to pensions (which are deferred pay).

En route to meet my @ucuedinburgh comrades for today’s #strike rally in #Glasgow. The weather is, to put it mildly, dreich. #ucustrikes

In case there are folks here curious about or supportive of our strike action #ucu #UCURising #UCUStrike #UCUStrikes My blog called, 'A love letter to our leaders on a strike day.'
https://wordpress.com/post/blogsfromthetyla.home.blog/69

Back at it! #ucuRISING #ucustrikes

@drgbuckingham a blog written with great thought and care, thanks Gavin. I hope it brings cheer to many. #UCUstrikes

Just remembered that tomorrow sees the start of more #ucustrikes. Solidarity and good luck to all @ucu members across the UK taking industrial action on Thursday and Friday. #ucuRISING

In advance of tomorrow's @ucu strike action, here's a blog post I've written about my reflections on striking. It's not fun, it's not easy, but it needs to be done.

https://gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2023/02/08/strikes/

#ucustrikes #ucurising

Really good, and unsurprisingly depressing summary of the state of British Higher Education #UCUstrikes

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ucu-strike-university-higher-education-unite-unison-tuition-fees/?s=09

Des photos et des slogans des grèves des universités au UK.

La loooongue précarité des chercheurs et chercheuses, organisee partout, c'est une machine de guerre contre la recherche. Comment riposter dans la durée ?
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https://academia.hypotheses.org/42941

#ucustrike #ucustrikes #ucustrikesback

@debruine I'm on strike too, as part of #UCUstrikes action to support another 'world class' part of our domestic infrastructure.

I haven't crossed digital or campus picket today but I find when I have a period of time to do nothing but think, I can't help ideas coming to me which promise breakthroughs at work - insights, new directions, problems solved, those kinds of thing. I note them down. And I think this makes our point: our uncontrollable workloads make many of us too strung out to be as thoughtful as these roles require. This is one of the messages we're trying to get across #ucuRISING #ucustrikes

Time for the #academic precariat to join a #union.
Solidarity #ucustrikes