Jamie Callahan
@profjamiec.bsky.social
Storytelling feminist - learning, gender, emotion & activism. Equity Challenge Project creator. USAF Veteran. Former Co-EIC of @IJMR_BAM. She|Her
With a killer #GTVO campaign and a flurry of SO many last minute voters, BOOM! Our records show that we sailed past that 50% anti-union threshold locally at @ducu.bsky.social.
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
With a killer #GTVO campaign and a flurry of SO many last minute voters, BOOM! Our records show that we sailed past that 50% anti-union threshold locally at @ducu.bsky.social.
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
#WeAreTheUniversity @ucu.org.uk
Friendly reminder to those calling students “consumers”:
A consumer is a revenue stream to be exploited. (Professor Tony Watson, Nottingham University Business School)
A consumer is a revenue stream to be exploited. (Professor Tony Watson, Nottingham University Business School)
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Friendly reminder to those calling students “consumers”:
A consumer is a revenue stream to be exploited. (Professor Tony Watson, Nottingham University Business School)
A consumer is a revenue stream to be exploited. (Professor Tony Watson, Nottingham University Business School)
Once again, EE2025 highlights how executives bring home excessive pay relative to those at the coal face in all sectors.
(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
ips-dc.org/report-execu...
(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
ips-dc.org/report-execu...
Executive Excess 2025
CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.
ips-dc.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Once again, EE2025 highlights how executives bring home excessive pay relative to those at the coal face in all sectors.
(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
ips-dc.org/report-execu...
(Oh, and don’t buy Starbucks. Find a local independent)
ips-dc.org/report-execu...
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
Feels like a good time to remind people: pensions are deferred wages. Moving someone forcibly to a worse pension is wage theft. Always unjustifiable, but particularly appalling in the context of years and years of real-terms pay cuts. Why do they NEVER have any solution other than paying us less?
Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Feels like a good time to remind people: pensions are deferred wages. Moving someone forcibly to a worse pension is wage theft. Always unjustifiable, but particularly appalling in the context of years and years of real-terms pay cuts. Why do they NEVER have any solution other than paying us less?
Poll for UK colleagues on a Research & Education track: what is your workload split?
Durham University Business School just put out a new 30-60-10 split for Research-Teaching-Citizenship as baseline, changed from 50-43-7.
Super curious, what’s normal for you? Institution? Department?
Durham University Business School just put out a new 30-60-10 split for Research-Teaching-Citizenship as baseline, changed from 50-43-7.
Super curious, what’s normal for you? Institution? Department?
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Poll for UK colleagues on a Research & Education track: what is your workload split?
Durham University Business School just put out a new 30-60-10 split for Research-Teaching-Citizenship as baseline, changed from 50-43-7.
Super curious, what’s normal for you? Institution? Department?
Durham University Business School just put out a new 30-60-10 split for Research-Teaching-Citizenship as baseline, changed from 50-43-7.
Super curious, what’s normal for you? Institution? Department?
The University launched a new Academic Workload Framework to be fairer. My Faculty saw an opportunity to slash R&E track Research by 20%, cut Citizenship by 10% & raise Teaching time by 17%. But if we jump through enough of the right hoops, we might earn back 10% for R & C. VOTE!
@ducu.bsky.social
@ducu.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The University launched a new Academic Workload Framework to be fairer. My Faculty saw an opportunity to slash R&E track Research by 20%, cut Citizenship by 10% & raise Teaching time by 17%. But if we jump through enough of the right hoops, we might earn back 10% for R & C. VOTE!
@ducu.bsky.social
@ducu.bsky.social
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And we know we're not alone as a branch in what we're facing. We need local action, but we also need national action. We've put together a list of reasons why a national mandate puts us all in a better bargaining position - please share widely.
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
28 reasons you need to vote – Durham UCU
durhamucu.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
And we know we're not alone as a branch in what we're facing. We need local action, but we also need national action. We've put together a list of reasons why a national mandate puts us all in a better bargaining position - please share widely.
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
durhamucu.org.uk/26-reasons-y...
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
As we near the last safe day for ballot posting in the current national UCU ballot (get 'em in by Wed, preferably sooner), let's remember what we're fighting for. We'll start with the graphs we made last week. Decades of pay erosion has left many of us a full pay spine point below where we should be
And here we are! Literally every spine point is paying less in real terms than it was back in 2008. Spine point 5 (now replaced by the real living wage) is down by about 3.4%. By spine point 10, we're down over 10%. By spine point 23, over 20%, ultimately reaching a 22.1% reduction. 3/3
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
As we near the last safe day for ballot posting in the current national UCU ballot (get 'em in by Wed, preferably sooner), let's remember what we're fighting for. We'll start with the graphs we made last week. Decades of pay erosion has left many of us a full pay spine point below where we should be
Numbers for TU members to remember: 30-45-90
30: the number of days it takes an employer to get rid of 20-99 of us.
45: the number of days it takes an employer to boot 100+ of us.
90: roughly how long TU’s need to get a mandate.
Do the math. VOTE!
@ucu.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social
30: the number of days it takes an employer to get rid of 20-99 of us.
45: the number of days it takes an employer to boot 100+ of us.
90: roughly how long TU’s need to get a mandate.
Do the math. VOTE!
@ucu.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social
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UCU is the largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and academic-related staff working in further and higher education throughout the UK.
ucu.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Numbers for TU members to remember: 30-45-90
30: the number of days it takes an employer to get rid of 20-99 of us.
45: the number of days it takes an employer to boot 100+ of us.
90: roughly how long TU’s need to get a mandate.
Do the math. VOTE!
@ucu.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social
30: the number of days it takes an employer to get rid of 20-99 of us.
45: the number of days it takes an employer to boot 100+ of us.
90: roughly how long TU’s need to get a mandate.
Do the math. VOTE!
@ucu.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social
As someone who saw my pension erode significantly when I switched from TPS to USS, this cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
As someone who saw my pension erode significantly when I switched from TPS to USS, this cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Just a friendly reminder: History shows us that, more often than not, employers place profit before people.
Workers need to fight for fair treatment. Industrial action is our most effective tool, but anti-union laws mean we have to win a mandate to use that tool. VOTE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
Workers need to fight for fair treatment. Industrial action is our most effective tool, but anti-union laws mean we have to win a mandate to use that tool. VOTE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just a friendly reminder: History shows us that, more often than not, employers place profit before people.
Workers need to fight for fair treatment. Industrial action is our most effective tool, but anti-union laws mean we have to win a mandate to use that tool. VOTE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
Workers need to fight for fair treatment. Industrial action is our most effective tool, but anti-union laws mean we have to win a mandate to use that tool. VOTE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
It would help if I didn’t have a typo in the hashtag! #WeAreTheUniversity
I got in trouble again for my trade union work. This time for paper flyers on my door.
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It would help if I didn’t have a typo in the hashtag! #WeAreTheUniversity
I got in trouble again for my trade union work. This time for paper flyers on my door.
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I got in trouble again for my trade union work. This time for paper flyers on my door.
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
Checked H&S guidelines: it’s okay to post flyers as long as they’re laminated. Okay, I’ll fix that. Laminator & sleeves were on sale!
#WeAreTheUniversit
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker.
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker.
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
Just in case, for some bizarre reason, you’re still giving this company your money, maybe be this will convince you to stop?
Don't buy Starbucks at any location until the workers end their ULP strike.
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Just in case, for some bizarre reason, you’re still giving this company your money, maybe be this will convince you to stop?
Hey, @durham.ac.uk #DUBS colleagues, let’s show @aomconnect.bsky.social that UK Business School staff are different!
@ucu.org.uk is balloting right now for the #WeAreTheUniversity campaign. Join us! @ducu.bsky.social
(Psst, @unitetheunion.bsky.social &
@unison.org.uk are balloting at DU, too! 😉)
@ucu.org.uk is balloting right now for the #WeAreTheUniversity campaign. Join us! @ducu.bsky.social
(Psst, @unitetheunion.bsky.social &
@unison.org.uk are balloting at DU, too! 😉)
"Typical U.S. business faculty members do not hold an identity that allows them to see the challenges facing higher education as their challenges. Moreover, business faculty have tended to be architects and proponents of the managerialism we claim to reject."
journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...
journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...
Cultivating Courage, Cowardice, or Complacency? An Identity-Based Perspective on Faculty Resistance to Managerialism | Academy of Management Learning & Education
The vast majority of colleges and universities in the United States are beset by existential challenges in the form of falling enrollments, rising costs, pressure to keep tuition affordable, and polit...
journals.aom.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Hey, @durham.ac.uk #DUBS colleagues, let’s show @aomconnect.bsky.social that UK Business School staff are different!
@ucu.org.uk is balloting right now for the #WeAreTheUniversity campaign. Join us! @ducu.bsky.social
(Psst, @unitetheunion.bsky.social &
@unison.org.uk are balloting at DU, too! 😉)
@ucu.org.uk is balloting right now for the #WeAreTheUniversity campaign. Join us! @ducu.bsky.social
(Psst, @unitetheunion.bsky.social &
@unison.org.uk are balloting at DU, too! 😉)
Always a tough day for me. RIP Jo. Thank you for your service.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Always a tough day for me. RIP Jo. Thank you for your service.
I don’t expect UG students to have necessarily *read* Shakespeare, MW Shelley, Chaucer, (any) Brontë, or Orwell and the like. But I kinda expected them to have *heard* of them….
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I don’t expect UG students to have necessarily *read* Shakespeare, MW Shelley, Chaucer, (any) Brontë, or Orwell and the like. But I kinda expected them to have *heard* of them….
Hold. The. Freaking. Line.
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Hold. The. Freaking. Line.
First the employer took staff desks from them. Now they’re taking their pensions.
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Northumbria to freeze pay if staff refuse TPS-USS pension switch
University says moving employees from more expensive scheme will save it up to £11 million a year
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
First the employer took staff desks from them. Now they’re taking their pensions.
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
This needs saying again & again: UK unis are knowingly accepting 1000s of students without the necessary English skills to fully engage with their courses they'll be studying on. And *that's not those students' fault*. Why wouldn't they assume these institutions know how to teach them effectively?
I saw this when I was teaching in 2014: students from China who didn't know that their agents had submitted someone else's TOEFL scores with their applications. They reasonably thought their English must be adequate or they wouldn't have been accepted. It was very hard for them, sad for everybody.
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This needs saying again & again: UK unis are knowingly accepting 1000s of students without the necessary English skills to fully engage with their courses they'll be studying on. And *that's not those students' fault*. Why wouldn't they assume these institutions know how to teach them effectively?
I knew @northumbriauni.bsky.social had taken away staff desks in NBS this summer, making them essentially hotdesk. Now the employer has informed staff that they are gutting their pensions, too.
If there was EVER a time to join @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, NOW is the time!
If there was EVER a time to join @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, NOW is the time!
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I knew @northumbriauni.bsky.social had taken away staff desks in NBS this summer, making them essentially hotdesk. Now the employer has informed staff that they are gutting their pensions, too.
If there was EVER a time to join @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, NOW is the time!
If there was EVER a time to join @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, NOW is the time!
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
Reposted by Jamie Callahan
Yes, it’s after midnight.
Yes, I have to leave for work in 7 hours.
Yes, I’m watching NYC mayoral election coverage.
Yes, I have to leave for work in 7 hours.
Yes, I’m watching NYC mayoral election coverage.
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Yes, it’s after midnight.
Yes, I have to leave for work in 7 hours.
Yes, I’m watching NYC mayoral election coverage.
Yes, I have to leave for work in 7 hours.
Yes, I’m watching NYC mayoral election coverage.