UCU
Liverpool university strikers fight to stop redundancies
Workers at Liverpool university are set to stage 10 more days of strikes to hit back at bosses’ plans for compulsory redundancies.
Thousands join protest to reclaim Pride and call for LGBT+ liberation
A few thousand joined the Reclaim Pride protest in central London. It marched from Parliament Square to Hyde Park to return to the radical roots of pride.
Workers set for autumn pay strikes at 15 colleges
Most of the colleges that passed the thresholds demanded by anti-union laws did so with yes votes of over 80 percent
Liverpool University action forces bosses to ask for talks
Bosses have shown the first signs of failing resolve, with a sudden proposal to talk
Trade unionists debate how to confront Tory attacks
The People Before Profit group launched an updated Covid emergency programme to defend workers rights—and a call to action—in an online rally on Tuesday.
Rally to build fights over jobs and wages in universities and colleges
Members of the UCU union are organising to unite the struggle for better pay and conditions across all of further and higher education
Danger as Tories plan to end school Covid-19 safety rules
29 June 2021Failed education secretary Gavin Williamson wants to end the system of pupil ‘bubbles’ even as coronavirus cases soar. Sophie Squire talked to school workers who now fear the worst
Colleges ballot for strikes over pay + New assault at Liverpool university + Pimlico and Redbridge school battles
21 June 2021The pay gap between college and school teachers currently stands at £9,000 a year
Leicester university workers launch three-day strike over job cuts
09 June 2021Workers at the University of Leicester began a three-day strike on Wednesday over job cuts.
University jobs fight spreads from Liverpool to Leicester and Sussex
07 June 2021UCU union members at the university of Liverpool were set to take four more days of strike this week
Liverpool university striker argues why it’s right to picket
31 May 2021UCU union members at the University of Liverpool continued to strike this week to stop the compulsory redundancies of staff in our Health and Life Sciences faculty.
University of Liverpool strikers battle for jobs and education
25 May 2021The university has ranked workers to justify making some staff redundant.
University workers and students organise against multimillion pound arts cuts
21 May 2021University workers and students are organising against Tory plans to slash funding for arts subjects by 50 percent.
Liverpool university set for 14 days of strikes + Leicester resistance
10 May 2021Workers at the University of Liverpool are set to stage three weeks of strikes to defend jobs. The action by nearly 1,300 UCU union members will see walkouts between 24 to 28 May, 1 to 4 June and 7 to 11 June.
Jobcentres safety ballot + Thurrock fightbacks + University jobs battles + Sandwell strikes
03 May 2021The PCS union is to ballot Jobcentre members over the return to unsafe workplaces
Scottish FE action + United Colleges + Liverpool university
12 April 2021College lecturers across Scotland plan a further two‑day strike in a continuing dispute over the replacement of lecturers with instructors on lower pay and with worse conditions.
LETTERS—Smash the capitalist system that causes women’s oppression
13 March 2021I was not shocked to discover that recent research has found almost all young women in Britain have experienced sexual harassment.
Workers say latest plans are a ‘one way road to an early death’
09 March 2021Education unions have rightly said the Tories’ “big bang” reopening of schools in England is reckless.
UEL strike off for talks + UCL + DVLA + Deliveroo + Safety in courts
09 March 2021Workers at the University of East London were set to strike on Wednesday of this week, but the action was postponed
Full schools reopening will fuel Covid-19 spread with tens of thousands dead, warn scientists
07 March 2021A full return to schools and colleges in England this week will contribute to the deaths of tens of thousands more people by spreading Covid-19.
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