Years of campaigning and determined industrial action by UCU members in Northern Ireland has led to a momentous agreement that will see:

• an 11.2% pay increase

• starting salary for a lecturer uplifted to £30k

This is a huge victory, and belongs to our courageous members.

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UCU has beaten redundancies elsewhere, and we will defeat them at Portsmouth too.

Solidarity with our amazing branch, the whole union is behind you and we will be backing any ballot you call.

Just finished a hugely rewarding 2-year project with Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 The BMA to develop union workplace organisation and leadership, helping members to build power for collective bargaining.

Now looking forward to my next project with UCU

UCU prison educators work in the most challenging of education settings.

Prison Educator, Pauline Rattery shares her story.

Watch the full video here 👉 youtu.be/t2WsiZCUhqM

UCU Prison Education needs a payrise

‘Black inmates at Wormwood Scrubs ‘disproportionately subjected to use of force’

This why our union - UCU fights so hard for the voices of our prisoners educators to be heard.

⁦UCU⁩ ⁦UCUprisoned⁩ ⁦UCU Equality⁩ ⁦Trades Union Congress⁩ theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

Great opening address from Janet Farrar Past President of UCU to start our conference!

Jay McKenna TUC North West Andrew Fox-hewitt Fire Brigades Union ASLEF NASUWT PCS North West PCS DBS Branch RMT UsdawUnion PCS Union Paul Nowak Trades Union Congress #Thread /33 #TUCNW2024 Janet Farrar Past President of UCU moving UCU #UCUnw motion on #TradeUnionEducation

Good to be with ⁦UCU⁩ members on the picket line at Redcar and Cleveland College this morning. The Executive at Education Training Collective need to make a serious offer on pay to our members there
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Great support on our UCU picket line at Education Training Collective
Tim Paver, one of our long-standing reps, explains the issues to UCU President-Elect Maxine Looby UCU President Elect and Simon Elliott, Regional Secretary of PCS Northern and Chair of TUC Northern
#RespectFE

We stand with our Members at the North East College Group are on strike today. Workers deserve more than a 3% pay increase in a cost of living crisis 📢

Solidarity ✊ UCU Northern Region

Can YOU get this to 900 today? Stop job cuts at Northumbria University: no compulsory redundancies! speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-job-cuts-…

This pay offer is insulting 📢

Almost 96% of UCU members voted to REJECT 👇

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The original Pits and Perverts event took place at the Electric Ballroom on December 10th 1984.

“What shall we call the benefit?” it says in the minutes from an early meeting.
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Excited to find this conference on our doorstep in June. UCU_UWS colin clark Janet Farrar Past President of UCU Jo Edge Jo Grady Laura kilby let’s bring our “tribes”

Northumbria University staff to hold strike ballot over £12.5m workforce cuts chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

We are without a doubt in the midst of the biggest crisis in HE. Fighting it &surviving is going to be tough. here is a list of UCU wins in the last two years to help with building an organic movement based on exchanges and solidarity between branches ucu.org.uk/article/13054/…?

'I am absolutely staggered that any employer, minister, and government department could consider such disparity in remuneration for two sets of workers doing the same job as acceptable,' says UCU's Northern Ireland official Katharine Clarke.

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‘Nobody wants to deny any student of their education but industrial action doesn’t just happen out of nowhere’

General Secretary Jo Grady discusses the strike action taken last year in a new BBC documentary with Geoff Norcott 👇

Watch in full on iPlayer now 👉

'This is a union town'

Jimmy Kimmel leads a round of applause for the union workers who refused to cross the picket lines during last year's strikes.