Our member Cristina is out on strike today.

Listen to her tell BBC News why we're on the picket line:

'We do our best, & we give our best'. But it is not possible to sustain this system.

UMUCU

#ucuRISING

Cevi (YMCA-YWCA Scouts) Tag 23.09.2023 in Frauenfeld, TG Switzerland

Today is Earth Overshoot Day. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

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I think I will tweet this every day until it happens. We need a UCU HEC meeting now to make decisions about reballot and MAB. I understand HEC members are entitled to leave, but thousands of members are set to lose vast amounts of money in an action that is now losing direction.

Keith Brown, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester is leaving shortly, and has posted his final message to staff. He's never been a good leader, not demonstrated compassion or humanity to his staff, and become increasingly aggressive about industrial action. 1/8

Open Letter to the UCEA from the amazing University of Manchester history students - Sign the Petition! chng.it/sjwRTKvq via Change.org UK

This is so powerful.

Students are finishing university with TBC instead of grades and staff are still receiving punitive salary deductions.

The bosses could have ended this dispute well before graduations.

This is all on you, UCEA.

#ucuRISING

Professor Kevin Anderson is addressing all of us in very clear words:

»We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species incl our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.«

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⁦XR trade unions at ⁦Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍⁩ in London today, #earthday #climatecrisis

Tue

11 Strike committee mtg and ballot phone-banking
12 Gender equity demo at arch
1 Gender equity panel discussion, SU
2 Can workers win teachout, SU

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Gender Equity #UCUrising UMUCU flyer

Join us For a Gender Equity Demo & Panel
Tuesday 21st March
-12pm Demo at the Arches
-1pm Join us for a panel to consider what is possible for #HigherEducation within an imagined future in which equality has been achieved

#EnoughIsEnough

Strike Teach-out UoM SU B1 James Sumner on tech and de-skilling #MCRFreeUniversity

#rentstrike2023 UoM Rent Strike 2023

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#mcrfreeuniversity UMUCU #ucurising

here's Jo Edge in the guardian

🚨🛠 BREAKING: COURT VALIDATES BARCLAYS DEADLY SUPPORT FOR FOSSIL FUELS 🛠 🚨
Today, 7 women were found guilty of criminal damage to Barclays HQ after they carefully cracked the windows in April 2021. They will be sentenced on 27th Jan & face up to 18 months in prison.
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#UCUrising Clip from last night's North West Tonight featuring UMUCU stalwarts+supporters. More informed than most national media coverage.

(Mind: my bit makes limited sense out of context, the aston's wrong, and my hat looks stupid, though this last is not the BBC's fault.)

Today we began historic strike action

Today we delivered massive media coverage

Today was down to each and every one of you

Tonight's BBC 6 o'clock news report 👇

#ucuRISING

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚑

7 health professionals Health for XR acquitted at City of London magistrates’ court.

They blocked a bridge with nurses, doctors & former editor of British Medical Journal to say 'Stop Financing Fossil Fuels'.

Today the court found them not guilty.