Brilliant news out of ANU. We are watching in admiration for all you’ve achieved in pushing back collectively at management’s attempts at destruction. Lots of lessons for us in #ukhe and @ucu.org.uk

I’m doing a talk on Monday, 20th October @thejapansociety.bsky.social if anyone is interested in hearing more about my current research! Register at www.japansociety.org.uk/event?event=...

A new initiative from @ucucommons.bsky.social - key updates from our work in UCU, the union more widely, and highlight news from our sectors. Expect it to drop every two weeks.

Don’t like to have to keep doing this, but management has left us again with no choice. We will vote again to take action and massive numbers will again be out on picket lines. And like last year, management will again back down. All of that can be prevented if management chooses to negotiate.

Here’s the crass supermarket analogy from a few years back: thepipeline.info/blog/2021/07...

Interesting response to the recent collapse in international student recruitment under Sheffield’s current management, while they also held down UG recruitment to shamefully focus on getting more “M&S not Aldi” UK applicants. ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

Just exercised my vote for @royalhistsoc.org council. Some excellent candidates again this year, including @davehitchcock.bsky.social and @djrgrey.bsky.social. Good luck to all willing to put their names forward and stand up for our profession!

I’m conscious of some speculation about proposed changes to toilet policies at a university. Please be reassured that the local branch is on the case, and getting support. Updates hopefully coming soon, but in the meantime, please let me know if similar cases or concerns pop up so I can follow up.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sheffield UCU took part in the Workers Day of Action on Trans Rights from our picket lines today! The UK Trade Union movement stands behind our trans siblings
#tradeunionists4transrights

At UCU we are urgently drafting comprehensive guidance that will go to all our members and branches. Trade unions have a critical role in educating others about why we must fight this dangerous ruling (which paves the way to discrimination), and in organising mass resistance.

Workers Day of Action for Trans Rights

⏰ Today!
📍Your workplace!

It is incumbent on trade unionists to resist the Supreme Court ruling and EHRC interim update.

Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are workers rights.

A thread of inspiration, ideas, and action.

It’s Day 3 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike today and also the national day of action for trans rights. I can’t make it to pickets today, but whether on the line, striking from home, or when back at work, this trade unionist will always back my trans colleagues and students! #unions4transrights

I’m going to head down to London for this. Join me. We need to all come together and fight for proper funding for post-16 education in this country.

Keep writing!

On our website now - a guide to what to say in your email to your MP plus briefing notes for a meeting with them.

Stay strong - share this - and keep fighting!

This is NOT over.

www.translegalproject.org

Really glad to see this critically important forum out now in @historyworkshop.org.uk. Congratulations @ankahajkova.bsky.social and @oksanadudko.bsky.social and all the contributors!

Thanks Anna! It was a real pleasure and privilege to work on this with both you and Oksana. So great to see it out in the world now!

I won’t be attending Friday’s NEC, for the same reasons as Caroline.

Resolution of this dispute is well overdue. No more excuses - both sides need to get it done, and urgently.

Great day of action today! @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social @nowthenmag.bsky.social #universitystrike #againstculturalvandalism

Proud to be out on strike today with so many Sheffield UCU members. No cuts!

If you can’t go to a toilet you feel
comfortable in when you’re out of your home, you can’t go out of your home.

TransgenderJapan (TGJP) has released a statement protesting the UK Supreme Court ruling made last week and extending solidarity to all trans people in the UK.

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.

Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8

2/2 NOTHING happens if everyone goes home after tonight and mistakes the relief and connection they (importantly) feel with any sense that anything changed today.

Yet.

Today could be a start - IF action comes.

The ‘system’ - the one that will censor this rally from its press reporting…

Love to the hundreds of Manchester queer and trans folk and allies that showed up yesterday and/or today. No time now for backing off - in every community and every workplace we will continue to demand justice, until the institutions that have so dramatically failed us and our kin change course. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈