Reposted by UCU UWSHWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Heriot-Watt Scholar provide online learning to Scottish schools, colleges, & to HW students You, your children or your students may have used it. You can help secure Scholar for future learners. Use the form to speak out for a unique learning service👇 heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/12/02/s...heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.ukSupport for Scholar - Scotland's National Digital Learning ServiceUCU, Unite and UNISON are jointly coordinating an effort to gather notes of endorsement for Scholar, a national digital learning service, used by senior phase learners across Scotland, for over a gene... 175
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Solidarity Movement @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Nine More Reasons to Vote Yes: ucusolidaritymovement.org/2025/10/25/h...ucusolidaritymovement.orgHE Ballot 2025UCU began a formal industrial action ballot of members across the UK on Monday 20 October for 6 weeks. UCU is calling for: a pay uplift that is at least RPI + 3.5% or £2,500, whichever is the high… 012
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Solidarity Movement @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Ten Reasons to Vote Yes in the @ucu.org.uk ballot 1⃣ 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀 A YES vote strengthens the hand of your elected negotiators and your union in the face of a set of employers making massive cuts in pay and jobs. 177
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Solidarity Movement @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social · 30/10/2025"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." #SpotTheContradiction #VictoryToDundeeUCU 063
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 21/10/2025📣 UWS HAS RULED OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉 3269
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 02/10/2025UWS BALLOT SUCCESS!!! ✊✊✊ 78/84% YES for industrial action/ASOS with a 62% turnout 🔥 UWS members - we have a meeting scheduled for Monday 12.30PM to discuss what this means and next steps. Please check your emails for the link and join! @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social 041
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Another lively picket from @eisunion.bsky.social UWS branch this morning! UCU members, Thursday is the LAST safe day to post your ballot - let’s make sure we can get out and join them to #protectourjobs & #saveouruniversity! ✊ 031
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Solidarity again with @eisunion.bsky.social UWS branch on the 2nd day of strike ✊ Great to see so many students standing in solidarity& refusing to cross the picket line! They know members are taking this action to defend our jobs, our university and our students! UCU members post your vote TODAY! 052
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Pay uplift - Protect terms and conditions - Stop the redundancies This crisis is far bigger than a single branch: vote YES join the fight to save higher education ✊✊ @ucuscotland.bsky.social 011
Reposted by UCU UWSUniversity of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE 34122
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Golden postbox for extra luck! UCU UWS members, you have 10 days to post your ballot - don’t miss the deadline ✊ Use your vote to stop the cuts, protect our jobs, and defend our students & our university! 010
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 11/09/2025No ifs, no buts, no education cuts! @eisunion.bsky.social EIS ULA UWS lunchtime rally begins at 12pm, Storie Street entrance. UCU members drop by to show your solidarity! ✊ 031
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 11/09/2025UCU sends full solidarity to the EIS @eisunion.bsky.social striking workers at UWS today ✊ EIS members are striking to #stopthecuts and #defendourjobs at UWS. Join the lunchtime rally at 12pm! 010
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 10/09/2025And that’s another vote for the re-ballot!! Get yours in ASAP - don’t leave it to the last minute! Let’s do this ✊✊✊ @ucuscotland.bsky.social 010
Reposted by UCU UWSStand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 03/09/2025📣 All out! Defend refugees at the Cladhan Hotel and support #Falkirk anti-racists this Sun 7th Sept. We need to keep up the fight and let the far-right know they are not welcome! #RefugeesWelcome 📣 Sun 7th Sept, 11am 📍Assemble Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk, FK1 1UF 01110
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 03/09/2025One of our members had a very cute assistant to help post the ballot this morning! Get yours in before 25th September ✊✊✊ #babiesandballots @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social 041
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 31/08/2025It’s re-ballot time! After an 88% YES vote that narrowly missed threshold by 4 (!!!) votes, our re-ballot is open! Post your ballot before 25th September! Let’s do this! ✊✊ @ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social 011
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Ballot closes in just under 2 weeks - make sure to get yours posted in time! If you haven’t received one, contact the committee for a replacement. Let’s do this!! ✊✊✊ 010
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 08/07/2025“UWS is a unique institution because it gives people like me a chance” Brilliant article that shows how damaging the proposed cuts at UWS will be to students: www.glasgowbell.co.uk/whats-going-... @glasgowbell.bsky.social @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.socialglasgowbell.co.ukWhat’s going on at the University of West Scotland?‘UWS is a unique institution because it gave people like me a chance’ 031
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 07/07/2025A ballot opened today at UWS, as the UCU branch there fights to save jobs and avoid compulsory redundancies! @ucu-uws.bsky.social #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.ucu.org.uk/article/1408...ucu.org.ukUniversity and College Union strike ballot at University of the West of Scotland in dispute over threat of compulsory redundanciesA ballot for industrial action opens today at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) in a dispute over job cuts and university senior management's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies. T... 001
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Great to read our branch president, Jamie Hopkin, speaking out against the cuts in this article: “what is being proposed will damage UWS’s crucial missions of teaching, research and widening access to higher education” 021
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 07/07/2025www.heraldscotland.com/news/2529360... @ucu-uws.bsky.social #StopTheCutsheraldscotland.comUniversity staff ballot on strike action over job cutsCollege staff could be set to walk out on strike in a dispute over job cuts. 012
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 21/06/2025UCU Scotland: proud to support today’s Aye Welcome Refugees demo #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StopTheFarRight 0104
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 17/06/2025UCU Scotland is proud to support Saturday's @sutrscotland.bsky.social national demonstration in Glasgow: Aye Welcome Refugees - Stop the Far Right. Sat 21 June, assemble 12noon Barrowland Park and music and carnival from 2.30 at the Old Fruitmarket #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StopTheFarRight 023
Reposted by UCU UWSUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/06/2025Hundreds marched through Newcastle today to say no to compulsory redundancies. From every corner of the UK, people showed up to protect jobs and the future of education. Thank you for standing in solidarity ✊ @newcastleucu.bsky.social 06412
Reposted by UCU UWSleedsucu.bsky.social @leedsucu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025A delegation from our branch joined the strike rally in Newcastle - we stand in solidarity with striking workers standing up for the future of HE! 0156
Reposted by UCU UWSUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/06/2025“We stand together and fight or fall apart alone” Right now in Newcastle, members from far and wide in solidarity ✊ UCU and PROUD 03616
Reposted by UCU UWSDr Maria Chondrogianni @chondrogianni.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Huge solidarity to @newcastleucu.bsky.social having an amazing rally today + to all branches on strike/facing redundancies. All @ucu.org.uk post-16 education staff deserve job security and fair pay, essential for our regions’ prosperity. #NOredundancies #DefendHE #SpreadTheResistance #Solidarity 033
Reposted by UCU UWSVicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social and all branches taking action in defence of jobs and conditions right now. We’re in Newcastle today for a national demo to #DefendHE #NoRedundancies #DefendEducation #StopTheCuts t.co/ZzwgiJ3gSst.cohttps://www.ucu.org.uk/stopthecutscampaign#newcastle 0815
Reposted by UCU UWSGrant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · 11/06/2025We have arrived in Newcastle for the @ucu.org.uk demonstration @newcastleucu.bsky.social 042
Reposted by UCU UWSRoyal Holloway UCU @rhucu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Solidarity with everyone at the national demo at Newcastle to protest again the shocking cuts being imposed by their senior management. We stand with workers at Newcastle against the thoughtless damage being inflicted on their institution. #DefendHE #NOredundancies #SpreadTheResistance #Solidarityncl.web.ucu.org.ukHomeAll eyes on Newcastle, a fight against the jobs massacre in Higher Education. Join the Demonstration on 11th June. UCU’s National Congress on 25 May voted for a national demonstration to take place in... 024
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 11/06/2025We send full solidarity to Newcastle & all other branches being hit by these devastating cuts. UWS is at the beginning of a redundancy battle and while this is full of anger and anxiety, it is heartening to see branches organise to come together in solidarity and to coordinate a national response. 134
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Our members are on strike for over 30 days, Solidarity in the form of donations to our hardship fund are VERY welcome! All details and a template motion can be found here. ncl.web.ucu.org.uk/newcastle-uc...ncl.web.ucu.org.ukNewcastle UCU Local Hardship Fund: Policies and ProceduresFor the upcoming dispute, the Newcastle University UCU branch has created a local fund specifically aimed at assisting hourly paid / casual staff and those for whom the loss of income due to strike ac... 01314
Reposted by UCU UWSLincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Way passed the threshold, #LincolnUCU members have smashed it! Unless #LincolnUniversity rule out #compulsoryredundancies, we will strike! 12817
Reposted by UCU UWSStand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 05/06/2025☀️@ucuscotland.bsky.social proudly joins the list of supporters mobilising for the national demonstration in Glasgow #AyeWelcomeRegufees #StopTheFarRight 🗓️Sat 21 June 📍Barrowland Park, 12noon @ucuglasgow.bsky.social @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @ucuaberdeen.bsky.social 165
Reposted by UCU UWSUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/06/2025Edinburgh Principal Sir Peter Mathieson flummoxed when asked what he earns. He’s had a 7.5% pay rise, makes more than the First Minister and UK PM combined and still “isn’t quite sure” what he’s paid. Meanwhile, staff face £140m cuts. @ucuscotland.bsky.social #ucu #CutTheCuts 46125
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025We’re very proud to support the 21 June Glasgow demonstration - be there! #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StandUpToRacism #BlackLivesMatter 097
Reposted by UCU UWSUCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Come down to Newcastle, come up to Newcastle, come across to Newcastle — join the NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION in Newcastle on June 11th. Everyone who thinks HE needs to be supported and accessible to all is welcome! For your agenda's: 11 June, 12-2pm, Newcastle! 11617
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 30/04/2025It’s vital that all members participate in the consultative ballot - we will show that we are ready to fight and prepared to win 💪 010
UCU UWS @ucu-uws.bsky.social · 30/04/2025UCU UWS consultative ballot is open! Members - you should have received the link last week. Please reach out to the committee if not ✊ 010
Reposted by UCU UWSDurham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Sign sign sign! Our jobs are on the line! 01211
