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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Imperial College staff and students, including UCU members and reps, formed a great contingent at a very sunny Pride London 2026 at the weekend. #transrights #Pride #LondonPride @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
At least 40 members of Imperial College London pose for a photo at Pride London 2026 with balloons with the Imperial "I" logo Pride flag design. The weather is very sunny!Three people wearing sunglasses and smiling at the camera. They are holding a bisexual pride flag, a trans pride flag, a placard stating "trans rights = human rights", and a pride flag work lanyard.Members of Imperial college under an Imperial College Union Pride banner, pictured walking away from the camera while on the pride march in central London. One person has a trans pride flag draped down their back. There are bubbles in the air.Members of Imperial College London posing and marching at Pride London 2026 with an Imperial College Union Pride banner, balloons with the Imperial "I" logo Pride flag design, and a "many voices one front" placard with pink and blue trans colours outline, more pride flags, and a "non-binary identities are valid" placard. The weather is very sunny!
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Staff in buildings from South Ken such as in @imperialphysics.bsky.social and at White City like @imperialsph.bsky.social Did you know this is happening? Meanwhile we are told to increase security with the new visitor management process! Make it make sense.
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SUPPORT SECURITY AND WELCOME HOST STAFF We deserve better! Security and Welcome Host staff have been asked to consider an Accelerated Turnover Payment (AT) scheme - a voluntary payment for staff who agree to leave the university. Sign open letter: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Join a union!
Flyer explaining the threats to jobs in security and welcome host staff at Imperial. Links to sign open letter in post.
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
New date for the free screening of the brilliant, moving "From Ground Zero - Stories From Gaza” Mon 22 Jun 6pm Union Concert Hall, Beit Quad South Kensington Campus Q&A after Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/Imper... It was sold out before it was cancelled by the Concert Hall so book now!
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Select tickets – RESCHEDULED - A Special Screening of From Ground Zero at Imperial College London – Union Concert Hall, Beit Quad, South Kensington Campus
RESCHEDULED - A Special Screening of From Ground Zero at Imperial College London – Union Concert Hall, Beit Quad, South Kensington Campus, Mon 22 Jun 2026 - A special screening of From Ground Zero sup...
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Join this meeting today! Registration link (not shortened): ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: UCU Solidarity Movement - Open Online Activist Meeting to Save HE!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
This is the registration page for the UCU Solidarity Movement Organising meetings, which take place every Tuesday evening. Next Tuesday 19 May we are throwing open our doors. The
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UCU Solidarity Movement @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Open Online Activist Meeting to Save HE Tuesday 19 May, 6pm Zoom: bit.ly/UCUSM_org
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: UCU Solidarity Movement - Open Online Activist Meeting to Save HE!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
This is the registration page for the UCU Solidarity Movement Organising meetings, which take place every Tuesday evening. Next Tuesday 19 May we are throwing open our doors. The "watershed moment" ...
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ucustandrews.bsky.social @ucustandrews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Listening to London Met and other London UCU colleagues speak about cuts leaving fewer opportunities for working class people in particular, and the business-ification of education as our institutions make impractical shiny buildings instead of supporting students and staff.
London region University and College Union banner next to a road sign indicating narrowing from two to one laneMuch like this photo…the govt has it backwards when it comes to funding priorities
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Demand PROPER funding for higher education! The ultimate responsibility for underfunding higher education lies with the government. MAY 1ST 5-6 PM ORCHARD HOUSE, 20 GREAT SMITH ST, LONDON, SW1P 3BT Called by UCU members, including those at London Met & Goldsmiths.
Call to action publicising a lobby of the dept of education. Colours used are the same pink an purple used by the UCU.

JOIN US.
DEMAND PROPER FUNDING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.
THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR UNDERFUNDING HIGHER EDUCATION LIES WITH THE GOVERNMENT
We invite students, staff, and Vice-Chancellors of London universities to join us as we lobby the Minister for Higher Education, Jacqui Smith, and demand proper funding for higher education.

MAY 1ST 5-6 PM
ORCHARD HOUSE,
20 GREAT SMITH ST,
LONDON, SW1P 3BT

Called by UCU members, including those at London Met & Goldsmiths.
Higher education is facing an existential crisis. Years of under-investment have led to a situation where universities can no longer provide the quality of education students deserve, or pay for. The scandal of mis-sold “maintenance grants” is the latest example of a sector in meltdown.
Students and university staff are being asked to bear the cost of a financial situation that isn't ours.
LOBBY THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
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UCU Capital City Colleges @ucucapitalcitycoll.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Strong UCU block in today's Together Alliance march ! 😍
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Knowledge is power: Imperial College London UCU united in education! Knowledge is power. People have the power! On the @togetheralliance.bsky.social march with @ucu.org.uk and hundreds of others!
Purple Banner with a pink UCU beanie hat visible. Text in post
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/03/2026
March TOGETHER against the far right in less that 48 hours. Central London. Saturday 28 March 2026. Join our stand, Block C: togetheralliance.org.uk/march
March Together for the far right
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 18/03/2026
Essex management email to staff: "Your job is safe." Three days later: "Sorry, that was a mistake." This is the chaos our members are fighting. Essex UCU has voted to escalate, more strikes coming if management won't negotiate. Stand with Essex. ✊ www.ucu.org.uk/article/1444...
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More strikes loom at University of Essex among redundancy chaos
University of Essex staff members have backed escalating strike action as they fight to save jobs, student provision and the Southend Campus.
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Great turnout for the rally marking the end of our recent days of action with @unitetheunion.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk colleagues. If you are at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, did you know our median pay has been cut 9% in real terms since 2018? Details: ucu.imperial.ac.uk/archives/1125
Members of Unison, Unite, and UCU at South Kensington campus - along with supporting students too.
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uculondonoffice.bsky.social @uculondonoffice.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
@ucuimperial.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk All three recognised unions at Imperial College are out together on the long-running dispute over pay & conditions.
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
On the march, 16th Feb 2026 with @unitetheunion.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk colleagues www.imperial.ac.uk/staff/joint-...
Union members marching at Imperial College London South Kensington campus. Holding banners for Universities and Colleges Union and flags of Unite the Union
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We can win a better pay offer in 2026! We've suffered a 9% pay cut in real terms since 2018. Management imposed another real-terms cut last year - insisting that a 2% increase was all they could afford - and then refused to negotiate with the unions. 2026 pay negotiations begin in April.
Image description: Graph of median pay relative to 2018 adjusted for inflation shows it decreasing almost every year to 2025, where it is nearly 10% lower than in 2018. Picture of Unison, Unite, and UCU union members on picket lines with banners.
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial. UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term. What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis. 🧵(1/)
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Remember to vote in the national ballot! If you did not receive it, order your replacement ballot here: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu.... The replacement request form closes TOMORROW.
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We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form
This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Another highlight of this last week of strikes was the History team subject showcase, followed by Claire Jenkins talking about resistance and protest in film 📽️
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"[...] the more impossible it becomes to make that kind of choice, the smaller the space for learning for the joy of it becomes … well, then, it will eventually only be for the elite. Modern language degrees will be the domain of the rich." www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees
Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21/11/2025
Can't find your ballot? Get another. Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
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We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form
This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21/11/2025
Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies. After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026. This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We're holding a Zoom meeting for all Imperial trade union members (UCU, Unite & Unison) at 1pm today about the pay dispute and this week's strike action -- members check your union-registered email for info!
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A significant new development in the Imperial College pay dispute. The Joint Trade Unions have uncovered that key 2018 pay benchmarking recommendations—based on extensive staff consultation—were quietly set aside by College management. Read the full update here: ucu.imperial.ac.uk/archives/1143
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Joint Trade Unions demand transparency over Imperial’s pay benchmarking
In brief (if you don’t have much time) The Imperial Joint Trade Unions (JTU) have written to the University Negotiating Team (UNT) to raise serious concerns about the College’s handling of the 2018 Pa...
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uculondonoffice.bsky.social @uculondonoffice.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Solidarity with all @ucuimperial.bsky.social
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Dr Anna Seabourne @lucubrat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Reporting in Imperial's student newspaper on the joint trade union strike action @ucuimperial.bsky.social felixonline.co.uk/articles/uni...
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Unionised staff reject final pay award and vote for strike action
Members of Imperial’s Joint Trade Unions (JTU) have voted in favour of strike action following a dispute with the College over its 2025/2026 pay award. The Imperial branch of the University and Colle...
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A reminder that we're on strike again today -- ALL WELCOME TO JOIN US AT 11.00 at the Exhibition Road entrance for a march around campus to make some noise and show your feelings to management!
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UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Imperial UCU members are on strike today and tomorrow. This action covers all parts of the College — academic, technical, administrative, and operational. It’s about fairness, dignity, and pay that keeps pace with the cost of living.
imperial.ac.uk
Joint Trade Unions
Joint Trade Unions
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