Every @ucu member will be charged £15. 120,000 members x £15 = £1,800,000! So the @UCULeft-controlled HEC blew a huge hole in union finances, by calling members out on 22 days of strikes w/o figuring out how to pay for them. Recklessly irresponsible. 1/

And then @UCULeft turns around and condemns the very levy that a majority of their own NEC members supported to bail themselves out of their own profligacy. @UCULeft has no shame. 2/ https://twitter.com/MikeOtsuka/status/1277129262118682624

. @uculeft's own proposal to bail themselves out for their profligacy is to call on other unions -- whose average members are generally much less well paid than the HE members they called out for 22 days of strikes -- to donate £1mn to the @ucu strike fund. Again, no shame. 3/

By calling HE members out on 22 days of strikes, @UCULeft has now made it impossible for FE members to receive anything that will ever come close to the strike pay that the union has promised HE members. 4/

Yet every FE member will be forced to pay an extra £15 levy to bail out the strike fund that @UCUleft depleted by their calling HE member out on 22 days of strikes. 5/

. @UCULeft boasts about how they refused to support any cut in the strike pay for the HE members they called out on 22 days. But they refuse to take any responsibility for the financial consequences of their various decisions. What a shameless enterprise. 6/6