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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thank you for joining us as our guest speaker!

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Way passed the threshold, #LincolnUCU members have smashed it! Unless #LincolnUniversity rule out #compulsoryredundancies, we will strike!

Image showing outcome of ballot - 86.05% in favour of strike, 91.86% in favour of ASOS

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UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

COME AND JOIN US in the FIGHT FOR HE! 11 JUNE

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 04/06/2025

📢 National Demo Announced at Newcastle University UCU members from across the UK will descend on Newcastle on Wednesday 11 June for a national demonstration against job cuts. ✊ Join us and make your voice heard www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

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Newcastle University academics to strike for 30 more days

Industrial action among academics at Newcastle University has been extended again, alongside a national demonstration in Newcastle next week

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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🚨🚨CALL TO ACTION🚨🚨 The new EHRC chair candidate, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, has a history of transphobic actions. MPs *must* scrutinze her. Sign the open letter and use the template to email the WEC to demand MPs protect trans rights! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Letter to member of the Women and Equalities Committee, June 2025

Please fill out the form below by Friday, 20 June 2025, to add your signature to this letter. Share this form widely to anyone who might be interested. The author, Anna Langley, is doing this to help...

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🏳️‍⚧️🚨🏳️‍⚧️Please share! Here is the guidance from @transactualuk.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social and #Mermaids on the EHRC Code of Practice consultation. Overview: transactual.org.uk/equality-act... Guidance: transactual.org.uk/equality-act... **Please excuse temporary typos!** We're on it 😅

Things to know before you answer

How long will it take?

There are a lot of questions to answer (up to 52 if you respond to all sections). However, even if you only have ten minutes, it’s still really important to have your say and tell the EHRC how you feel.

If you have…

10 minutes: Answer all of the tick-box ‘would you like to provide feedback’ questions with ‘yes’ and answer all of the tick-box ‘to what extent do you agree with’ statements.
15 minutes: Answer all of the tick-box ‘would you like to provide feedback’ questions with ‘yes’ and answer all of the tick-box ‘to what extent do you agree with’ statements, then fill in the open-text ‘general comments’ section at the very end.
30 minutes or more: Answer all of the tick-box ‘would you like to provide feedback’ questions with yes and answer all of the tick-box ‘to what extent do you agree with’ statements, fill in as many of the open-text ‘is there anything you would like to change’ boxes as you can, then fill in the open-text ‘general comments’ section at the very end.

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thank you Rhiannon - you’ve been an inspiration since I got active in UCU. Thanks for all you do and I know you will be a VP/President all UCU can be proud of. If you haven’t posted your ballot you’ve got a few days! Please vote Rhiannon for VP

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Sending all the solidarity to our sibling branch at UoL - and all of you facing these horrific cuts. Staff, students and the future of academic thought all suffer at the hands of poor leadership

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

In midst of heavy redundancies, with branch reps working into night & weekends, it’s v difficult to see how this q doesn’t: - position union members as passive consumers right when we need action - treat unpaid work of volunteers as something to be performance managed Is this trade unionism?

Text of multiple choice q

In general, how satisfied are you with how your branch operates?
• Very satisfied
• Somewhat satisfied
• No opinion either way
• Not very satisfied
• Not satisfied at all

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨 UCU hustings uploaded🚨 The union is going to the polls while the HE sector is in crisis. Watch me and Deepa Govindarajan Driver making the case for left & independent candidates & the fightback here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1389...

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UCU election hustings 2025

Watch the official UCU hustings with UCU vice-president (HE) and honorary treasurer candidates, which took place online on Wednesday 5 February 2025, 16:30-18:00.

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Sorry to have missed the UK-wide UCU VP and Treasurer hustings today, but I hear @illdoitanyway.bsky.social and Deepa Driver were articulate, and had concrete plans on how to move forward. Read more about Rhiannon here: rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com

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Rhiannon for UCU VP (Higher Education)

Vote Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) for UCU Vice President (Higher Education): ballots are live 27th January till 3rd March 2025

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Chaos & heartbreak. The HE funding model is broken beyond repair. Solidarity with all the individual UCU branches who are fighting heroically to defend the sector. The leverage to push Labour on from the rotten ideology causing cuts - now & still coming - demands full union mobilisation.

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Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls

Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s been *a month* at work, so I’m a bit behind in sharing my candidacy in the upcoming UCU NEC elections, I’m standing for 2 seats in the UCU nec elections, and though I can’t do both, if elected to either position I will do my best to represent and support our members.

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A big thank you to Elizabeth Lawrence, former President UCU. I first met Liz in the freezing cold at Sheffield station when she welcomed our branch campaign against TU victimisation to Yorks with strike funds & a list of solidarity visits booked. rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/e...

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Endorsement from Elizabeth Lawrence, former President of UCU

Image shows Liz Lawrence taking part in a demonstration, carrying a placard which reads “defend jobs, defend education, NO CUTS” I have known Rhiannon for over a decade as a union …

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Grant is an excellent candidate for UCU Scotland President. If I was able to, I’d vote for him

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Jim Fagan @jimfagan1917.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

📣Tell Wes Streeting: 🏳️‍⚧️Lift the ban on Puberty blockers, trans healthcare now, protect trans kids 🗓️5pm, Monday 16th December 📍Wes Streeting’s constituency office, 12a Highview Parade, Woodford Avenue, Ilford, IG4 5EP Organised by local community activists and trade unionists #TransRight

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The callousness of the puberty blocker ban for trans young people (not cis kids) is hard to process. We must organise in every space we can to overturn it. Solidarity with all my trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming siblings & adults supporting trans kids #PubertyBlockersSaveLives #TransRights

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Solidarity to all @uniteucu.bsky.social members on strike in the coming days

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/11/2024

Today marks UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. We reiterate the demands for an immediate ceasefire, the immediate & unconditional release of all hostages, unrestricted access to humanitarian aid, & the lifting of the siege of Gaza. Find out more👇 un.org/en/observanc...

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/11/2024

Solidarity with @neunion.bsky.social members on strike today ✊ Staff at Sixth Form Colleges making a stand on pay and defending national collective bargaining. #PayUp24

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We should not be in this position as a union. Pause the restructure and engage urgently in negotiations. Solidarity.

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Get involved tomorrow! Lovely to see comrades from my branch (LJMU UCU) + UoL branch from our last day of action on the cover of the vid! Join in the Liverpool #Workplaces4Palestine action 1pm at university square

Poster for the divest from Barclays protest at university square Liverpool 28th November at 1pm

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Having jumped ship from the bird website maybe 18 months ago (and enjoying not being quite so online tbh!) it’s nice to re-connect with folks from the UCU-sphere over here! Hope to see some of you at Equality Conference over the next few days ✊🏼

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Bee Hughes (they/them) @beehughes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It’s shortsighted that gov & VCs don’t see cuts in context of local/regional economies AND recognise impact on staff + families - careers will be ended & knowledge & experience lost. The damage from slashing jobs, +/ unis allowed to fold will ripple out. HE funding needs fixing now.

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