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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 16h

Huge win for staff today at Warrington and Vale Royal College!

💪 6.5% pay increase backdated to August

💪 Guaranteed pay increases of up to £1,000 a year

💪 Starting salary for all teachers £29,227

Read more 👇

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1421...

Union pay and conditions victory at Warrington and Vale Royal College

The University and College Union today (Thursday 9 October) hailed improvements to staff pay and conditions at Warrington and Vale Royal College as a victory for its members.

www.ucu.org.uk

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 2d

🗳 From 13 Oct, members in around 100 FE branches will be balloted for industrial action.

The AoC’s 4% offer fails to fix low pay, unmanageable workloads or broken bargaining.

VOTE YES for a #NewDealForFE 💪
✅ Fair pay
✅ Manageable workloads
✅ Binding national bargaining

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 1d

Ballot papers are landing!

Ballots open on the 13th!

Vote YES for fair pay, safe workloads and binding national agreements.

This is our chance to win.
#VoteYes #NewDealForFE

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 9d

“50% of FE lecturers leave within three years. In HE, 15,000 redundancies are looming.

If Labour are serious, we need commitments: close the pay gap, stop the cuts, and invest in education.

Otherwise today’s speech is hollow.” @drjogrady.bsky.social on
sophyridge.bsky.social tonight.

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Maxine Looby @mybool.bsky.social · 21d

Prison Education should never, ever be for profit.
Yet it is.

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 24d

Disastrous. Our @ucu.org.uk members in prison education do amazing work. What even is this government doing.

Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 25d

This is moving in exactly the wrong direction! Education & meaningful activity in prison is crucial to reducing violence and improving outcomes

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 8

VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 7

Today, UCU’s Estelle Hart paid tribute to our member Will Nelson, who tragically lost his life last week in Lisbon.

“Will fought to protect arts education and access to it, and we will continue to fight for that in his memory”.

Our thoughts remain with his family and friends.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 5

UCU member Will Nelson and his partner Kayleigh were among those who tragically lost their lives in Lisbon this week.

Will was popular and much loved by all who knew him. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this awful time.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 2

UCU President Elect (HE) @dyfrigjones.bsky.social warns that Labour’s response to Home Office threats against international students is “a political stunt with little substance.”

👉 “Aping Reform’s policies is a dead end, it drives core Labour supporters away.”

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Aug 6

Prison education overhaul? Or more of the same?

The government’s £1.5bn ‘overhaul’ hands contracts back to the same failing providers.

This isn’t reform. It’s repeat failure.

#PrisonEducation #UCU

feweek.co.uk/existing-pro...

Existing providers win £1.5bn prison education ‘overhaul’

Critics warn the system will continue to fail unless more drastic action is taken

feweek.co.uk

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Aug 12

£1.5bn ‘overhaul’ of prison education with the same failing providers.

Prison education should sit with the Department for Education, not the MoJ.

insidetime.org/newsround/ne...

New contracts but same old providers for prison education

Contracts worth up to £1.5 billion for education in prisons in England have been awarded after a two-year bidding process – to three of the four existing providers. Novus, PeoplePlus and Milton Key…

insidetime.org

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Maxine Looby @mybool.bsky.social · Aug 11

Absolutely!

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UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social · Aug 11

Solidarity to all the UCU branches dealing with further cuts and 'reorganisations' while also trying to do some actual work during this month!
Extra solidarity to those UCU case workers and negotiators who are all doing their damnedest to keep jobs and support our colleagues.
#AcademicSky

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jul 18

Why are venture capitalists being allowed to profit from prison education?

The govt urgently needs to confirm these profiteers will not be allowed to line their pockets by slashing our members’ pensions.

Thank you @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social for raising this in parliament.

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aldtu.bsky.social @aldtu.bsky.social · Jul 7

"I myself cannot work without PIP and access to work"
buff.ly/i1iggvL
After 20 years of fighting, I still cannot get proper support and assistance, which is similar for all casualised workers
@mybool.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @marisharay.bsky.social @disabilityld.bsky.social @cajardinemp.bsky.social

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BCU UCU @bcu-ucu.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 Lobby the BCU governors! 🚨

On Wed 16th BCU governors are meeting for an update on the current review, which has put 342 staff at risk of redundancy & cuts student support in multiple ways.

Join our lobby: 1pm outside Parkside Building

Bring your solidarity and your sun cream! #SaveBCU

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jul 8

📢 Bangor University’s £15m cuts plan is a shambles.

Staff have already suffered 200 job losses, and now another 78 are under threat. Our members have had enough.

We’re ready to fight compulsory redundancies. @bangorucu.bsky.social

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Welsh university staff threaten action over possible job losses

Bangor University has luanched a £15m savings consultation and has warned it cannot rule out compulsory redundancy

www.walesonline.co.uk

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jul 9

📢 Birmingham City University is planning cuts that put 342 staff at risk, slashing student support despite admitting there’s no financial need.

This is a threat to student success and staff wellbeing.

✊ Sign the petition to stop the cuts @bcu-ucu.bsky.social

BCU UCU @bcu-ucu.bsky.social · Jul 8

Petition to @mybcu.bsky.social governors: remove the threat to 342 jobs and cuts to student support at BCU!

Please sign and share

@ucu.org.uk

www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Sign the Petition

Stop redundancies and cuts to student support at Birmingham City University

www.change.org

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jul 9

🚨 A damning report from Parliament’s spending watchdog slams the govt’s incoherent teacher recruitment plan.

With up to 12,400 more FE teachers needed by 2028, vague pledges & poor pay just won’t cut it.

📣 We need action, not empty numbers.

feweek.co.uk/college-teac...

College teacher shortages put government missions at risk, say MPs

Committee also tells ministers to assess how effective pay rises are at retaining staff amid concerns over 6,500 teacher target

feweek.co.uk

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Maxine Looby @mybool.bsky.social · Jul 16

This is an appalling way to treat FE teachers, students and the Redbridge Community

Redbridge Institute is at the heart of the local community

Decimating this well established, life changing community resource is nothing more than shameful!

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jul 14

📢 An incredible 94% of staff (75% turnout) back strike at Warrington & Vale Royal.

Pay frozen for a year. No talks. £2.3m surplus.

Staff are ready to act.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...

Huge 94% strike vote at Warrington & Vale Royal College over frozen pay

An overwhelming 94% of staff at Warrington and Vale Royal College backed strike action in a ballot with a turnout of 75%, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today

www.ucu.org.uk

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jul 15

🚨 97% strike vote at INTO Manchester

INTO makes £20m+ in profits, pays £15m in dividends yet offers staff a paltry 2% pay rise?

Management needs to come back to the table with a serious offer.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...

97% strike vote at Manchester international student college

Staff at INTO Manchester, a private college for international students, have overwhelmingly voted to strike over low pay.

www.ucu.org.uk

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Maxine Looby @mybool.bsky.social · Jul 16

Education is a vital part of the prison rehabilitation system but poor pay, outsourcing of contracts and unsafe working environments has left the sector in crisis.

Ask your MP to sign EDM1542 and help change this: www.ucu.org.uk/prison-educa...

Ask your MP to help address the prison education crisis

Ask your MP to sign EDM 1542 which calls on the UK government to bring prison education provision into public ownership. We have created a template letter to send to MPs below.

www.ucu.org.uk

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