#UCUStrikes

Today’s #WhyIStrike is about pensions, and particularly my take on why this action is important for academics (while never forgetting that #UCUstrikes are about all university workers) given the challenges

Sophie Williams

So #UCUstrikes @ucu are starting today.I am fully on board with the reasons for the strikes however in my first year of uni the strikes caused a lot of distress

Dr Jane Draycott

I found the last round of #UCUstrikes extremely difficult - after a decade of trying to forge an academic career which involved working evenings & weekends, moving around the world,

Carrie Bradshaw

This is day 5 of #UCUstrikes @leedsucu but my mind is already turning to when I return to work on Thursday. I will of course be kind, polite and reasonable

BenjaminThomasWhite

Mixed feelings about the picket this morning.It was excellent to see professorial colleagues on the line, especially those with management roles.But the presence of these few was a reminder of

Prof Fiona de Londras

Most mornings this week I've been w colleagues on #UCUstrikes picket lines. I'm proud that many @bhamlaw profs & readers have also been there. We are not leaving it to

University strikes, aka Oh God Another Endless Thread About This Shit. I can't promise I have anything new to say. But here's my own personal, unofficial take.Firstly, what are we

"It is unlawful for students to join pickets" This is shameful from @LivUni & I will never be seen crossing a picket line. I'll be out every day with @ULivUCU2

Prof Fiona de Londras

Like many friends and colleagues I will be on strike from Monday. I am a latecomer to the union and I find this situation very difficult because I am so

Dr Karen McAuliffe

As an ECR I was told, by the VC of the institution at which I worked at the time, that ECRs should ‘reasonably expect’ to work 75 hours per week.

This summer I graduated with a first class degree. This is not a shameless brag but rather a post to point out that this achievement would absolutely not have been

🎄 The Yule Ghoul 👻

Hey! I mentioned this on stream recently but I'm on strike from my teaching job this week and I wanted to give some folks who tune in some insight into

Chris Kempshall

I was supposed to be working my non-academic job today but this year's bout of chronic asthma means I'm off work from that & simultaneously unable to participate in the

From 25 Nov-4 Dec @UCU is striking over pay inequalities, casualisation, unmanageable workloads and attacks on our pension scheme. I will not respond to work-related messages during this time.I am

Esther Murray #wearetheuniversity 🕷🇪🇺

On the #DigitalPicketLine today because I am, quite simply, knackered. So, a thread on getting through the #UCUstrikes in one piece, energy, #solidarity, academic life and the challenges of joining

I’ve seen a lot of very brave & earnest threads that underscore how grimly necessary the #UCUstrikes are, especially re casualisation. Solidarity to you all. Not sure I can add