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Action is happening up and down the country. Branches are standing up to cuts to jobs, courses and campuses.

Now, more than ever, we need to support one another.

Our president Dyfrig takes you through the UCU Solidarity Map. Find out where action is happening, search your city, and see where solidarity is needed most.

Support your branch. Link in bio. by @ucunion

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UCU Briefs bring members’ expertise into the campaign and help strengthen our case to politicians. The first brief, by UCU Vice-President for Higher Education Mark Pendleton, is now on the Education Is Ours website, with more to come.

Got expertise to contribute? Get in touch.

Read the briefs: EducationItsOurs.org.uk by @ucunion

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85% voted YES to strike action at the University of Lincoln.

After around 500 staff departures, members are demanding an end to compulsory redundancies.

Staff are an asset, not a drain on resources.

Solidarity with Lincoln UCU! by @ucunion

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Historic strike at Glasgow Caledonian University.

For the first time, UCU, UNISON, EIS and Unite have joined forces on the picket line to fight compulsory redundancies.

40 posts at risk. One united message: No compulsory job losses. by @ucunion

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“There is no need for these cuts. There is no need for these redundancies.”

UCU general secretary Jo Grady stands with members in Glasgow fighting to defend jobs and education.

Through our Education It’s Ours campaign, we’re building union power and fighting for an end to compulsory redundancies across the sector.

Find out more: educationitsours.org.uk by @ucunion

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Ulster University is planning to cut up to 450 full-time equivalent posts around 15% of its workforce.

UCU’s Norman Hagan explains what’s at stake for staff, students and the future of higher education.

These cuts will have devastating consequences for those who remain and the students they teach.

We stand in solidarity with staff at Ulster University. Together, we must fight these cuts.

#educationitsours by @ucunion

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Dave Moxham, STUC Deputy General Secretary, speaking from the picket line at Glasgow Caledonian University this morning.

With four unions now taking strike action, the message from staff is clear: compulsory redundancies must come off the table, GCU should use its reserves to support jobs, and management needs to engage properly with the unions.

Workers at GCU are still waiting for answers. Management needs to do better. taken in Glasgow Caledonian University by @ucunion

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Today we joined the picket lines at Glasgow Caledonian University in defence of jobs and education!

UCU general secretary Jo Grady stood alongside Andrea Bradley from EIS, Andrea Egan from UNISON and staff fighting back against devastating cuts.

United in solidarity. United against job cuts. by @ucunion

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Universities are tearing apart the humanities, arts and social sciences. Courses are closing, jobs are disappearing, and students and staff are paying the price.

At Exeter, 85% of proposed job cuts targeted these disciplines.

These are choices, not inevitabilities. We need university leaders who will defend education, not dismantle it.

Defend our humanities. Defend our universities.

educationitsours.org.uk

#EducationItsOurs #SaveOurUniversities #Humanities by @ucunion

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How do we make change happen in education? Join our UCU Briefs webinar.

It’s online on Friday 20 November at 12:30pm.

The UCU Briefs bring together research, evidence and ideas on the issues affecting our members, our workplaces and the wider education sector. Hear from the authors and ask your questions.

Register now. Link in bio.

#EducationItsOurs #UCU by @ucunion

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