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UCU Ulster

2 days

Tremendous turnout to the March for All today in Belfast, sending a clear message to the far right: Belfast stands against racism ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

7 years

We listened and the voice from our members is loud and clear for #NoCapitulation The branch committee @UCU_Ulster therefore recommends rejection of the proposal. Join us on the picket lines again tomorrow to show our negotiators that we will stay strong in defence of our pensions

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

🔒🔒🔒LOCKOUT🔒🔒🔒: @UlsterUni management have just confirmed that they will deduct 100% of salary for ASOS industrial action in the form of a Marking & Assessment Boycott

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Comrades at Magee ❤✊️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Sending our full solidarity to @cjhumanrights . No colleague should be threatened or intimidated for their work and their right to undertake free and legitimate scholarship

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

Solidarity from the most westerly picket line in the strike! Members standing #dampbutdetermined at our Magee campus in Derry ✊ #UCUStrikesBack @ucu

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Magee and Belfast pickets having a remote dance off…..

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Huge picket lines in Belfast. All doors covered ✊✊✊✊ #ucuRISING

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Same old Tory bull💩. We stand in full solidarity with the @theRCN ✊❤️

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

2 years

Jeez. Now we have the Education Secretary suggesting striking nurses will fuel inflation & cause NHS backlogs Let’s put this boll**** straight once & for all

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Lockout at @UlsterUni @ucu_ulster ended following constructive discussion with employers. Talks will contine next week.... 1/2

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Offered a resilience seminar by @UlsterUni ..... Staff don't need to be more resilient.... they need decent pay, fair & safe workloads, security in retirement, equal pay across the university and secure contracts #oneofusallofus

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

At what point do vice chancellors realise that @universitiesuk & @UCEA1 no longer represent the best interests of UKHE's global reputation, and disband these organisations?

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Tremendous showing off student staff solidarity @ucuatqub picket

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Drenched, but unwavering in our resolve✊️❤ @UlsterUni Jordanstown picket this morning...

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our wonderful students out in force today in the cold and wet. They know that our working conditions are their learning conditions. Thank you for your solidarity ✊❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

1 year

Very pleased to confirm that @ a quorate branch meeting our members have pledged £5K to the @ucuatqub fighting fund We won’t let our comrades be bullied @QUBelfast @QUBVChancellor We’ve got their backs; it’s time you had theirs too - redact the deductions & #settlethedispute

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Yes @ucu_ulster is not facing the same punitive deductions (and hence Industrial Relations catastrophe) as other universities. We will however not leave our comrades behind. We also encourage our members to donate to the @ucu fighting fund:

Donate to the fighting fund

UCU's fighting fund supports members involved in disputes

www.ucu.org.uk

Strathclyde UCU

@StrathclydeUCU

2 years

Well done to @UlsterUni for showing leadership amidst the bin fire that is Higher Education. They are not imposing deductions on staff taking part in MAB. Hope their UCEA colleagues take heed. #ucuRISING

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Early picket pics from our Magee Campus @ucu Do you see your workers @UlsterUni ? What are you doing to end this dispute? #FourFights #OneOfUsAllOfUs

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

Yesterday we decided to rename our most northerly campus ... "Cold-rain" ...! Not a bother to our #frozenbutsolid members ✊✊✊ #UCUstrike #UCUstrikesback #ucustrikes @ucu

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

@uniofwarwick @WarwickHistory @wmgwarwick Let’s be honest @uniofwarwick this isn’t about wellbeing at all, it’s a nice photo op for your social media. It’s performative. While your staff stood on picketlines to fight against workloads that are making them sick your managers are literally laughing at the situation.😣

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Please that @UlsterUni has made the choice not to bully / starve it’s staff taking industrial action to improve the university sector It’s a pity that other universities are choosing an extreme anti-staff approach #ucuRising

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Thank you to all students who’ve come down to support us today ✊💕

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

Groundbreaking research just published: 'Creative construction of pancakes on pickets: authenticities, contexts, and impacts' 😁😁😁✊✊✊ #frozenbutsolid #ucustrikesback #ucustrikes #ucu @ucu

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

6 years

We're pleased to tell you that our wonderful @UCU_Ulster activist @gorettihorgan has been elected as academic staff rep on Council @UlsterUni Thanks to everyone who signed the petition of protest when the university tried to bar Goretti from standing because of her UCU activities

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

So good to see @UlsterUni VC Professor Paul Bartholomew engaging with our picketers this morning on the issues of why we are on strike. We call on all VCs to talk to their colleagues on why they are taking action #ucuRISING

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Thanks again to @UlsterUni VC Professor Paul Bartholomew for his visit to our picket this morning. All VCs should follow Paul’s example and engage and listen to their colleagues on the picket line

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our participation in the marking and assessment boycott remains ON, but @UlsterUni management have offered to engage in further negotiations Many thanks to all our sister branches, members, followers and supporters for all the solidarity shown this few days.

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

This is what collectivism looks like. @DrJoGrady , @ucuatqub 's @ProfJohnBarry and @UCU_Ulster 's @AislingBeirn fighting with one (strong, happy and positive) voice ✊✊✊ #frozenbutsolid #UCUstrikesback #ucustrikes #ucu @ucu

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Comrades in Coleraine ✊✊✊

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

Belfast pickets @UCU_Ulster Day 1 solidarity from students great @UUSU_Online

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our two most dedicated picketers first to the picket line in on the Coleraine picket line

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Look at the colour outside the Birley building

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Remember that we are beginning ASOS today. Your inbox might be full: -don't apologise in replies for being on strike -you don't need to catch up with everything today -your manager should acknowledge that any work rearranged will need to be done at the cost of something else

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

The fear is that many more will follow unless government and employers start to take safety more seriously

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷

@MichaelRosenYes

3 years

"Overall, the ONS estimates that 970,000 people in the UK are suffering continuing symptoms after a Covid-19 infection." (Guardian)

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Nothing to celebrate about the current state of industrial relations in N. Ireland's universities. VCs and Deans who try to celebrate how #REF2021 are so out of touch with the staff who have conducted research. Solidarity ✊️❤️

UCU at Queen's

@ucuatqub

2 years

Speaking Truth to Power: as QUB's VC leads the 'celebration' of the university's REF results, one of the university's workers challenges him on 35% pension cuts, 15 years of real pay cuts and crippling workloads. In reality, it is not a time for celebration!

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Workers marching in Belfast City Centre to City Hall ✊❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

The suns out in Derry ☀️ #ucuRising

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

It’s worth pointing out that all workers across all sectors taking action today are defending & improving the working conditions of tomorrow for students. It’s therefore great to see students stand with (not only) @ucu but @CWU , @RMTunion RCN & others ✊❤️

UCU

@ucu

2 years

Vice chancellors: students will not support the strikes The students:

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

‼️‼️‼️Attention Students ‼️‼️‼️- your lecturers & academic support staff will soon be going on strike. Here’s why + what you can do to help improve your learning conditions - a threat…..1/17

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our comrades in Coleraine ✊✊

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

The Belfast Bunch this morning ✊❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Thank you to all the students and staff who helped make the banners which make our picket so colorful #ucuRISING

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our Norman bringing the move to the @ucuatqub X @UCU_Ulster picket ✊🪩🕺💃

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Just look at this amazing outfit created by our @AislingBeirn who attended the Array Studios Night at the Museum dressed as a @UCU picket. #ucuRISING

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

@wawisloyola Poor attendance is common across the sector - a multitude of reasons, but all consequences of marketisation. HE is broken and is failing students and staff

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Many thanks to @CaralNiChuilin from @sinnfeinireland for her visit to our Belfast picket this morning ✊❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

@THEJamesWhale Yet poll after poll shows the majority of the public still supports them…

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

1 year

The chair of @UCEA1 👇who believes workers should “feel pain” of disproportionate deductions in the midst of the worst cost of living crisis in decades -is he a fit & proper person to lead a university? -is he a fit & proper person to lead the national bargaining for employers?

The Gaudie

@thegaudie

1 year

NEW: 70% of @aberdeenuni students and staff we polled believe Prof Boyne should step down:

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

Just look at those massive Magee grins 😁😁😁 Our Derry colleagues haven't looked this happy in months. Let's stand strong and change our sector so they can look this happy going to work every day ✊✊✊ #UCUstrike #frozenbutsolid #UCUStrikesBack

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

This is amazing 🤩✊✊✊✊✊

Strathclyde Solidarity Collective

@strath_occupied

2 years

Yesterday Strathclyde students disrupted a speech at #ScotLifeSci22 in solidarity with our striking staff. Delegates paid hundreds to attend, crossing the picket line. 🚨 Attend Student Parliament 29th 5PM @ Mandela, vote to support strike 🚨 ALL OUT 30th #ucuRISING #StrathLife

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our wee Betty ❤️❤️❤️ #ucuRISING

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

@michelledonelan A "disappointing" attempt to change the narrative to staff vs students.

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

New banner donated by @array_studios Please read @UlsterUni management

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

1 year

The early picketers holding the line @ucu_ulster #settlethedispute #ucurising

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

1 year

Students arriving for their first day of a new academic year - classes cancelled A day of shame for UKHE @UCEA1 are doing irreparable damage to this sector

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Many thanks to @GerryCarrollPBP for coming down to our Belfast picket this morning. ✊️❤

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Thank you to @TrademarkBF for the visit to the pickets this morning ✊️❤

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Day 8 - resolute on our pickets at the Magee

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

1 year

Don’t pull the ladder up from those who are at the start of their careers, on a temporary casual contract or who are from one of the groups who are unequally paid in our sector Professors and senior lecturers - don’t mark the work of someone who is boycotting marking

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

We’re up with comrades @ucuatqub @UniteQUB @seanoconnellQUB welcoming everyone to the rally and telling us how important fighting together is ✊❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

1 year

Reminder: Don’t break the digital picket Don’t volunteer to do the marking for a @ucu member Don’t pull up the ladder on those in a less privileged position as you &/ or on those who are fighting for better working conditions ON YOUR BEHALF

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

One set of staff's unsustainable workloads making another set of staff's workloads unsustainable. Management fail to see the irony, so it'll remain one of our #fourfights til they do. #UCUstrikesback #UCUstrikes #UCU

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

The @UCEA1 pay uplift is on average around £40 per month Here’s some other uplifts: - +£285 average annual mortgage increase - +£380 average annual food bill increase - +£1000 average annual home energy bill increase Cheers @UlsterUni 🤨

Strathclyde UCU

@StrathclydeUCU

2 years

Any answer to this? £40 extra per month. Which extravagances will you splash out on?

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Michael, a second-year Interactive Media student, interviewed picketers at Coleraine this morning. He's doing a documentary about the strike for his coursework! ✊

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

1 year

Awk look at Willow, our Picket Pup today 🐶

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our early picketers on the Rock Road, Derry ✊✊✊

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

7 years

Massive thanks to our comrades at @NIPSA for their solidarity. At their General Council they agreed the following: initial donation of £3000 to strike fund, use of NIPSA buildings, mobilising public support. This is a fight for all of us. #ucu #strikeforUSS #ucustrikes

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Thank you so much the amazing comrades from @pb4p . @fiona_ferg has been down at every picket we’ve had and is unwavering in her solidarity ✊❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

And the wind has carried us all the way to stormont 💨💨💨✊️❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Early picketers at UUB ❤✊️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Expressing our solidarity with @jeremycorbyn who is facing continued media attacks in addition to attacks from within @UKLabour We won’t forget the letter Jeremy sent our branch in 2022 expressing his own solidarity to our branch’s struggle across the @UCU “four fights”

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

BBC coverage of our agreement with management. Time for other unis to get back to talks with their campus unions and begin the long journey to addressing some of the workforce issues in UKHE Here's looking at you @Queens_Belfast @QUBVChancellor 👀👀👀

Ulster University: Staff set for cost-of-living payment

More than 2,000 Ulster University workers will receive a one-off payment of up to £1,000.

www.bbc.co.uk

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

It’s our Susan’s birthday so we are having a picket birthday party ✊🎂🎉

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Just look at founding member of @Solidarity_SSIA and UCU student activist @amz_wot 's graduation outfit 😍🤩 "solidarity with @ucu " & "up the workers" Congratulations Amy and thanks again for your amazing support ✊️❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Thanks to everyone for coming down this week. Seeing and talking to other colleagues and fellow comrades is what keeps us going. Being on the picketline gives us the opportunity to have the discussions we are supposed to have in work but don’t get the time to have 🤨🙄

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

It’s also our Kiera’s birthday - 5 today and spending it with her human @rjjoconnell on the picket 🎉🎂✊

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our @AislingBeirn @ the QUB Rally Aisling emphasised that we must as a society invest in the future - unis are not doing this by: piling students numbers high, increasing workloads, seeing students as £s & €s, casualising the workforce & constantly attacking Ts & Cs of HE staff

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Solidarity with @CWUnews workers in Omagh today from UCU ✊

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

So Happy New Year from @UlsterUni management, who expect staff to.... -mark mountains of assignments / exams -prep contingency plans -prep for f2f & online delivery simultaneously -cover for colleagues who are sick (& hence cross the ASOS picket-line) All before 24th Jan...

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

Frozen but solid in Derry ✊✊✊ #UCUstrike #UCUstrikesback #ucustrikes #frozenbutsolid

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Students, we will be putting out some posts about why we are striking and how the issues are impacting your student experience

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Loud and clear from our Belfast pickets “ @UCEA1 we’re not tired!!!!”

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Confirmed: @UCU_Ulster will join other unions on 1st Feb on strike ✊ Unions tried to seriously negotiate a settlement with @UCEA1 on 16th January but UCEA negotiators chose to jest instead 🤡….. this shows how much @UlsterUni ’s reps really care about the “student experience”

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Massive picket @QUBelfast with @UniteQUB @ucuatqub and @UCU_Ulster coming together @QUBVChancellor - “Ian Greer why aren’t you here”

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Standing with our @CWUnews comrades at the Toome Street picket

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

What a turnout of workers coming together at Belfast City Hall #EnoughIsEnough #ucuRising

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

Thanks to all our members for a fab week of picketing across all 4 campuses! 5 days done 3 to go! 4 Campuses 1 voice!

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Picket @UlsterUni Magee ✊❤️

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

3 years

Picket prepping....... 🎨🖌🖼✊💪

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Our Betty’s not for posing this morning 🐶🐶🐶

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

We've withdrawn our labour from our institutions, but we're still doing what we do best during the strike, on our terms. Check out the Alternative University in Derry run by our Magee campus members. @ucu #frozenbutsolid2 #UCUStrikesBack

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

1 year

😆 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Why don't you ask the 100s of staff standing on picket lines this week? Clue: the answer is not: -cutting staff pay, -excessive workloads, -insecure precarious employment contracts or -unequal pay based on racial identity, gender identity & disability

Universities UK

@UniversitiesUK

1 year

How do universities make sure teaching is excellent? 🏆 This week, the Office for Students (OfS) will publish the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) awards. Policy Manager @CSnelling_UK reflects on how universities take part in the TEF. Find out more 👇

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Thanks to all our early bird picketers #ucuRISING ✊✊✊✊💕💕💕💕

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

5 years

Our Belfast pickets and their students reminding everyone that caring about our students is the very reason to strike, not a reason not to ✊✊✊ #frozenbutsolid #ucustrikes #ucustrike #ucustrikesback @ucu

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Early picketers in Derry and Belfast ✊✊✊✊ #ucuRising

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

Comrades from Derry Trades Council, @pb4p and @UNISONNI joined us this morning at a UU open day to protest against @UlsterUni decison to instigate a lockout of staff from Monday The outrage towards UU management's 1913 anti-union tactics is palpable...

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UCU Ulster

@UCU_Ulster

2 years

🌞☀️ Morning everyone 🌞 ☀️ We’re back out on the pickets on the Cromore Road Coleraine, Rock Road Derry and York Street Belfast Students are very welcome today to chat to members about how the issues we are on strike over are impacting their student experience