#UCUStrikesBack

Sohni Chakrabarti

Fellow students, here's how you can support your lecturers who are striking (a short thread based on some of my conversations with other students): 1. Learn more about the strike

Alison Atkinson-Phillip is on strike

Today @NewcastleUniUCU #UCUStrikesBack is focussing on the fight against casualisation. My @NuAntiCas colleagues have been doing an awesome job sharing stories of the impact of casualisation so please check them

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

I haven’t yet posted about #UCUStrikesBack as so many others have been so much more eloquent than I could ever hope to be but I feel compelled to after a

Dr Deborah Toner

Wild thing about this is that the employer here 100% validates UCUs demands about excessive workload - stating that by definition working to contract is "partial performance - a central

“I passed my viva 7 years ago. Since then I have had over ten fixed term contracts of varying lengths and pay. The best (and worst) contracts were ones where

Matson Lawrence

As the first week of #UCUStrikesBack ends, a few thoughts on how we can #CripTheStrike and centre access & disability justice in @ucu industrial actionThis is of particular resonance given

Dr Hannah Leach 🌹

There are lots of reasons to go on strike. The pension situation is garbage. Salaries have been cut. I am striking in solidarity with my colleagues affected by these things.And

Dr Jessica Gagnon

The #UCUstrike is #FourFightsOneVoice. We are fighting for 1. Equality 2. Job security 3. Fair workloads 4. Fair pay/Fair Pensions https://www.ucu.org.uk/heaction #UCUstrikesBack /1 #FourFightsOneVoice 1. Equality: We demand action to

Today is #UCUStrikesBack anti-casualisation day. My last dept was heavily dependent on casual labour (as hourly paid tutors or part-time teaching fellows) because the staff-student ratio was what can only

Vian Bakir (Prof.) is on strike #UCUStrikesBack

A Plea1. One thing being talked about a lot: over-work, workload model. Quite right too. #UCUStrikesBack BUT one thing not mentioned at all: universities nicking neighbouring unis’ "natural" students, thereby

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

Students want to be integral & included in Strike action (they felt excluded last time). They take on a lot of labour of organising. They bring up unequal divisions of

Máiréad Enright

Drying off after this morning’s picket and flicking through a copy of the University’s Code of Practice on Freedom of Speech. I am now even more baffled as to why

Today I heard of a Head of School not going out on #UCUstrikesback because "it wouldn't be fair on the staff, especially the School admins". This is getting it all

Catherine Fletcher

So I have a story for #UCUStrikesBack about starting out 15 years ago as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and being told I had 20 minutes to grade each essay.https://twitter.com/seefryar/status/1200416599263629313 I