Reposted by Durham UCUUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 18hNottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham. 15640
Reposted by Durham UCUDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply. 121062389
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is key: the "we will tell you when you are to appear before us" approach isn't even efficient; it ends up taking up more work and time than just mutually agreeing dates. 120
Reposted by Durham UCUUniversity of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026With strike action set to begin in a week and a half, here is a quick overview of what is happening at your university, why it is happening, what UCU is doing about it, and how you can support us as we fight for the future of UoN. #UCU #UoN #UoNUCU #UniversityOfNotting #StopTheCuts #SaveHE 099
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026From an outside perspective, it sure sounds like management are hoping the money they end up paying in student appeals costs them less than the salaries of the people they needed to actually teach the courses. 170
Reposted by Durham UCUDundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026No surrender until the University of Dundee rule out making colleagues compulsory redundant. Donate to our campaign as we seek crowdfund support for a Judicial Review of the governance decisions that led the University Court to approve staff and programme cuts www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/judicial-r... 01717
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026ALWAYS read up on all disciplinary processes and policies in a job. And ALWAYS remember management may simply choose to ignore those processes and policies the instant they are inconvenient. 160
Reposted by Durham UCUPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Very sorry to say that it was just one of many abusive events. Another was the uni admitting that a manager had faked probation documents and meeting records to justify a probation failure, but still terminating the member. 001
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It went like this (shared with permission of the reporting colleague). "Can you make times X or Y this week?" "Not both of us, no." One week later: "Can you make times A or B this week?" "Not both of us, no." "Then we'll just have to proceed without your union rep present." 230
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This. This includes the tactic of being so inflexible with meeting dates that your caseworker can't attend (which we've seen reported elsewhere). Your legal rights trump their busy calendar and refusal to treat your own schedule with respect. 49022
Reposted by Durham UCUUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026The rain didn’t stop us. Today we stood proud against the University of Brighton’s outrageous threat to derecognise UCU. We will not let our members’ rights be trampled on. Like and share to stand with our members and send management a message: BACK DOWN. 24921
Reposted by Durham UCUUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY 011080
Reposted by Durham UCUcovucu.bsky.social @covucu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Another "achievement" for Coventry University: noted as an example of subsidiarisation meaning they're no longer required to provide gender pay gap figures across most of its entities. #ucu 042
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026youtube.comThe Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So (Official Music Video)YouTube video by thehivestv 130
Reposted by Durham UCUUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 07/09/2026Staff cannot be made to pay for Scotland’s university funding crisis. No more job cuts. No more rising workloads. No more insecurity. Universities need proper public funding and a future that values the people who make them work. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2652345...heraldscotland.comUnion says university solutions should not 'exploit' staffUniversity union leadership has backed calls to reform the sector’s funding model, while saying that sustainability should not be allowed to… 0117
Reposted by Durham UCUAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The labor movement gave us weekends, 8 hour work days, and ensured that our kids can go to school rather than work. Honored to fight for unions every day. Happy Labor Day to all those who have fought for a fairer economy in the richest country in the world. 13290652552
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Sometimes, I idly wonder how much better off this sector would be, if all the time university managers pour into hiding the ways they're not doing what they know they should be doing, went instead into doing what they know they should be doing. 120
Reposted by Durham UCUThe UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Solidarity with colleagues working the @ucu-ulster.bsky.social open day, whilst facing 450 redundancies. Anyone in the area, please stop by at 10am! 052
Reposted by Durham UCUcovucu.bsky.social @covucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Dear University Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award? For CU’s VC? The university with the huge deficit, collapsing student numbers, hundreds of redundancies and 2,788 staff transferred to subsidiaries over 3 years? That Coventry? Right. Interesting award criteria you have there. Best, The staff 076
Reposted by Durham UCUNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I have now been on strike for three months. This is the first time Goldsmiths UCU has had to start the new academic year with a strike. But I am proud of my colleagues for their action in protecting a great university. 0434
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ah yes, the good ol' "You've got things wrong, but we're not going to tell you which things, or why we think they're wrong, so you're just going to have to stop talking about what's going on entirely" approach. A classic. 134
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Entirely this. We tried to make this clear during our own uni's "voluntary" scheme - it was clear there were people submitting to the scheme not because they wanted to leave the job they had, but because they feared what their job would *become* after the exodus of so many valuable colleagues. 2107
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Our branch committee's message regarding the tragic loss of Professor Jason Arday, our former colleague in Durham, can be read on the main page of our website.durhamucu.org.ukDurham UCU – The University and College Union at Durham University 073
Reposted by Durham UCUHWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026WE HAD A DEAL! Watt happened? HWUCU back on strike today because our employer has signalled they won't keep their side of a deal made in June to protect jobs. No Compulsory Redundancy. @ucu.org.uk @joshpizpom.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @theferret.scot @ucuscotland.bsky.social 22219
Reposted by Durham UCUNorthumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Summertime blues? 😢 🗳️Vote now in the @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social local ballot on pay and contracts 😎, while poor Eddie Cochran shakes his head in despair... @ucu.org.uk @ucucommons.org @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @tucneyh.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social 022
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The problem, always, with "legitimate concerns about immigration" is that they're always based on obvious and significant factual inaccuracies. The people pushing these concerns have made a conscious choice to not learn about a situation they demand to have their way over. 1111
Reposted by Durham UCUUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21/07/2026500 staff at risk. 200 compulsory redundancies. A world-class university under threat. Staff at Exeter are taking the next step in the fight against cuts, with a strike ballot opening on 27 July. ✊ Defend Exeter. Defend education.ucu.org.uk 0179
Reposted by Durham UCUUCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Many more people in universities will lose their jobs if nothing changes in the way HE is (under) funded. Even more prospective students will not be able to go to university, especially here in the Norheast. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @markfergusonmp.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social 11617
Reposted by Durham UCUNorthumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 15/07/2026@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social obviously dead chuffed that the brilliant Jill Halfpenny got an honorary degree from @northumbriauni.bsky.social. 🎭 Just a shame - a tragedy, even - the same uni is cutting Theatre and Performance... 😢 @ucu.org.uk www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2627205...thenorthernecho.co.ukBeloved North East actress and Strictly star 'thrilled' after getting honorary degreeAward-winning actress Jill Halfpenny, who is from Gateshead, has been awarded an honorary degree from Northumbria University. 01012
Reposted by Durham UCUCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Tomorrow is the last day she will be treated with equality & respect at school. Tomorrow is the last day she will be safe at school. Trans kids are bearing the sharp end of aggressive state persecution that is hitting all trans people. No wonder the UK's on our 2nd genocide warning. 42551294
Reposted by Durham UCUCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2 9437941405
Reposted by Durham UCUThe UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026There's definitely a version of consultation that university management have that has more in common with a forwarded email titled FYI than actual consultation 165
Reposted by Durham UCURic Crossman @riccrossman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026As someone who works in decolonisation, and indeed co-runs the decolonisation project in my department, this feels like I'm being spat on. Years of work trying to disentangle UK academia from it's imperialistic past, and my institution goes and does something like this. 132
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Everyone seems blindsided by this. I'm sure we'll get around soon enough to talking about what we think about Durham being top of this particular list, but even independently of that - how have we been signed up to this without Senate even *hearing* about it, let alone approving it? 151
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Is it possible to generate power from a total lack of surprise? If so I have an idea as to how the HE sector can slash its energy bills.theguardian.comFlawed disciplinary cases at work cost UK economy £28.5bn a year, doctors sayPoorly handled investigations should be treated as threat to public health and damage not just staff involved, report says 021
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Busy but rewarding day of branch discussion and planning today. Always good to be in a room with members, talking about where we've been, where we are, and where we're going. 153
Reposted by Durham UCUPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This stuff is just utterly normal at universities now. 45418
Reposted by Durham UCUBirmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Have you been told ‘the business case is clear’ without real information? Share your experience with Birmingham UCU. Member testimony helps us challenge weak or unjustified decisions. 011
Reposted by Durham UCUPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The new academic year starts in 2 months. The modules to run are set in stone even if the all-new first year ones haven’t yet been designed. All that remains is to decide which 3 of the 23 of us will still be here to teach them. The redundancy selection criteria has not yet been announced… 1313259
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Changing rules on the fly? Refusing to comment on changing rules on the fly? Pretending to not understand objections to changing rules on the fly? Deleting material to hide how rules have been changed on the fly? Do they think they're running a university? 030
Reposted by Durham UCULaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/07/2026In our meetings in response to the cuts at Exeter 118351
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A launch even for Ahmed Al-Naouq and Pam Bailey's We Are Not Numbers in paperback is happening at The People's Bookshop in Durham 10.7.26 7pm, hosted by Durham PSC. Four Gazan panelists will speak on the lives, experiences and prospects of Gazans. Ahmed will be signing books following the event. 000
Reposted by Durham UCUGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/06/2026What's happening at the University of Exeter is a disaster for both the region and the country. The way the sector is set up, it is *inevitable* and *unstoppable* that this will continuously happen everywhere. We need to stop, get out a blank sheet of paper and start again. 03015
Reposted by Durham UCUChris Downs @chris-downs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Solidarity with @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social colleagues and shame on the so-called leadership of @herts.ac.uk ⤵️ 033
