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BSA Theory Study Group (British Sociological Association) @bsatheory.bsky.social · 18h

Many thanks to everyone who has submitted abstracts and session proposals for the Annual BSA Conference 2026! We look forward to going through the submissions and organising the Theory Stream in the coming weeks.

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

#BritSoc26

Key BSA Events

www.britsoc.co.uk

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Charlie Masquelier @charlesmasquelier.bsky.social · 1d

'The very act of oppressing others has changed us as a people. Our boots may be on their necks, but those same boots also shackle our feet.'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 18h

Many thanks to everyone who attended our October event with Court(ney) Felle yesterday!

Our next event will take place on Tuesday, 4 November from 6:30pm UK time

'Lost in the Supermarket: Vertigo and Capitalism as Embodied Crisis' - Anindya Raychaudhur
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/

Online monthly events of The Marxism & Disability Network

Coming up in 2025: On Tuesdays (usually) at 6.30pm BST/GMT To receive the Zoom links for the events below, please subscribe to the MDN mailing list. November, Tuesday 4th, 6:30pm (GMT) – Anin…

marxismdisability.wordpress.com

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 21h

"skeptical that a nation can be held together with business studies and comp sci" ⚡

last tory government's campaign which shows a woman tying her pointe shoes in ballerina clothing. title says: "Fatima's next job could be in cyber. (she just doesn't now it yet) Rethink. Reskill. Reboot.

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the second part, where we show that less than 1% of fines (by value) issued for non-payment of tribunal awards are actually paid.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Employment tribunals: ‘scandal’ of toothless scheme to punish…

Just 2% of fines given to employers who disobey court orders have actually been paid

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2d

People should be in prison for this, but instead they’re driving around in fancy cars, starting new companies, shitting on workers all over again…

Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the second part, where we show that less than 1% of fines (by value) issued for non-payment of tribunal awards are actually paid.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Employment tribunals: ‘scandal’ of toothless scheme to punish…

Just 2% of fines given to employers who disobey court orders have actually been paid

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 2d

"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself"

That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

‘Glad you didn’t get a penny’: cafe boss gloats over unpaid tribunal…

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 13d

I recently joined The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social trade union & you should too!

'Supporting authors through collective action.
We promote the interests of authors through campaigning, lobbying, negotiation and representation'.
societyofauthors.org/join/
#TradeUnions

Join the SoA - The Society of Authors

Strengthen your career Meet other authors Make a difference Questions? Email the Membership Department or phone us on 020 3880 2230. * We are pleased to give individual guidance and advice...

societyofauthors.org

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 13d

AUSTRALIA: Major Australian university found to have underpaid thousands of workers millions in wages and superannuation for a decade www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

Major Aussie uni found to have underpaid thousands of workers millions in wages and super

The University of Wollongong has been found by the Fair Work Ombudsman to have underpaid 5,340 workers over $6 million in wages and superannuation, joining eight other tertiary institutions to sign an enforceable undertaking for committing such an offence.

www.skynews.com.au

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 14d

We had hoped our own union's senior management would listen to our pleas to stop their breaching of union policy and jeopardising of members' legal cases.

We are deeply disappointed not even to have had a reply and have no choice but to raise our concerns via other routes.
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

This branch believes that:

Union management should not behave in ways that it would challenge in its members’ workplaces.
By threatening 100% ASOS deductions as an employer, UCU SMT is in breach of established UCU policy against disproportionate ASOS deductions, as adopted at Congress.
Threatening punitive deductions for ASOS against UCU staff is a failure of service to UCU members, because it directly undermines members’ right to take collective action, and members’ right to unbiased legal advice and support to challenge these deductions.

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Leisure Studies Association [LSA] @leisure-studies.bsky.social · 14d

About us? Meet the LSA Executive Committee:

leisurestudies.org/about

Learn about the legacy of the LSA and find updates on the LSA Conference 2026 at Brunel!

#LSA2026

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 14d

At our Emergency General Meeting, our branch unanimously voted in support of this solidarity motion with @uniteucu.bsky.social. This behaviour by @ucu.org.uk senior management is unacceptable and threatens the entire @tuc.org.uk movement.

Read in full:
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

The branch resolves:

To write to the General Secretary seeking the immediate withdrawal of any threat of deductions for ASOS made to Unite UCU members.
To submit a complaint to NEC and make a representation to NEC seeking an agreement that punitive deductions for ASOS should not be used by UCU because it is damaging to all UCU members, as well as to the particular ongoing campaign by QMUCU members to seek restitution and damages against our employer.
If no agreement can be reached, to make a second representation to NEC asking NEC to exercise rule 2.11 and, if needed, instruct the GS under rule 28.2 to withdraw the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS made to Unite UCU members.
To write to UCU legal services seeking urgent clarification on how the union will handle the disparity between supporting QMUCU members to challenge punitive deductions and enacting them against UCU staff.
To write to the TUC General Council calling for an investigation of the conduct of UCU SMT in accordance with TUC Rules 12, 13, and 14, in coordination with Unite-UCU.

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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · 18d

Panos Theodoropoulos on precarity & IWW’s General Defence Committees: ‘The idea is to create a feedback loop where the community is connected to the workplace, & vice versa. Such initiatives allow us to go beyond seeing solidarity as a form of “activism”’ scottishleftreview.scot/precarity-an...

Precarity and the Collectivization of Struggle

Panos Theodoropoulos shares notes for organisers in Scotland based on years of struggle alongside precarious migrants in Glasgow.

scottishleftreview.scot

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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 20d

Brilliant resources for teaching and thinking on a huge range of topics from the Uncommon Sense Podacast and @thesociologicalreview.org. With contributions from our own @academicdiary.bsky.social and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social

New lesson plans for the classroom – from the Uncommon Sense podcast

mailchi.mp

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 24d

In case you missed it last week: branch committees calling out the unconscionable application of employers’ worst union-busting practices by our very own union.

You can still add your branch, #UCU.

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 26d

Another 12 more UCU branches have signed (so far) today!

uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

We'd like to send special solidarity back to @ucukent.bsky.social and @ucugreenwich.bsky.social for their support following their own worrying news from this week.

We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to:
• Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions.
• Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS - this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action.

Signed, 25, no, 37 UCU branch committees (and counting)

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 28d

The video recording of yesterday's event is now available online!

Advancing a Marxist Theory of Disablement: Historical Modality, Labor Power, and the Commodified Value Form - with Keith Rosenthal

www.youtube.com/watch?si=hBF...
#Marxism #Disability

Advancing a Marxist Theory of Disablement (with Keith Rosenthal)

YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

www.youtube.com

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 6

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties”

Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!

policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

UCU: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

Motion from UCU Congress 2022-2023: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions

policy.web.ucu.org.uk

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Drafting a more extensive response, but for now we think that (1) @uniteucu.bsky.social rock [branch position, voted on in motions], (2) that this is no way of treating staff [union position, voted on in Congress], and (3) everyone should read this blog: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

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Glasgow Times @glasgowtimes.bsky.social · Aug 24

"What these young workers have managed to win after just three weeks of continuous strike action is nothing short of astonishing."

Striking Glasgow hotel workers win new pay deal

www.glasgowtimes.co.uk

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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Aug 19

‘Don't you know how busy and important I am?
I got soooo much to do
Don't you know how busy and important I am?
I got soooooo much to do
Oh, I'm too busy to finish this so—‘

youtu.be/iG9h3KUtaIc?...

#PoliticsOfRest

Tom Rosenthal - Don't You Know How Busy & Important I Am? (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Tom Rosenthal

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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Aug 15

#16 - Ursula

'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self'.
- Ursula 1/3

'Self-care is absolutely crucial. You can't help others or produce anything if you are unable to look after yourself and your needs, so that you are meeting the world with your best self, your best good, feeling, capable self. If you don't look after yourself, you get into the spiral where you work too hard, try too hard, and it breaks you. It's not productive for you, it's not self-fulfilling and it usually backfires on you. And organise - organise, organise, organise. If we all got together and really insisted on what we need, it'd be difficult for them to keep fucking us over one-by-one, which is I think what happens to workers who are precarious in body/mind, as they see it'.
- Ursula

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The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work @disprecwork.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yesterday, I presented at the American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social Annual Conference, on the Disability, Work & Economies of Difference panel. Many thanks to Richard Scotch for excellent chairing and to Pyung Kim, Junzhe Gu, Jennifer Brooks & Matthew Saleh for great presentations!

120th ASA Annual Meeting
Reimagining the Future of Work
August 8-12, 2025
Chicago, IL
ASA
The poster includes a representation of six people working at a table.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · Aug 11

hey bluesky, sorry to add to the bad news but 'the rest of august' is a myth so objectively speaking it's mid september now.

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · Aug 9

Something that isn’t reported on very much is how the UK HE funding crisis is affecting countries where British unis form partnerships. See below for latest news from Prague City University, which operates in partnership with Teesside University:
drive.google.com/file/d/1qGaQ...

Open Letter from the Teachers of Prague City University.pdf

drive.google.com

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