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How we spent our morning. #library staff are here for fair pay, fair pensions, fair working conditions - fighting inequality and casualisation in HE.
We can talk about FAIR Data another day 😁
#ucurising #ucustrike

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Not even the cold and rain are preventing thousands os us to rally and demand fairer working conditions in #academia and against pensionncuts. Enough is enough #ucurising @ucu

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Lots kids on the pickets today because their teachers are striking for fair pay too. Every school in the city is completely closed.

Me and the six-year-old made a "TAX BILLIONAIRES" sign. Her verict of the front line: really great snacks. Solidarity 😅

#ucuRISING #EISstrike

From UCUAberdeen:

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Amazing seeing my feed full of #ucuRISING #strike content today.

Remember, you can join lawful industrial action even if you aren't a union member - you have the same legal protections.

#DigitalPicket

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Thank you to friends and colleagues striking today. Fighting to make all our lives better, to allow us to see some future in academia. We aren't asking for much. Fair pay and better working conditions, particularly for ECR who suffer precarious contracts. There are so many dedicated staff, wanting to make a great student experience. Universities exploit this.
#ucurising #ucu #ucustrikes #ucustrike #ukhe #digitalpicket #digitalpicketline #strikes #strike #dontcrossthepicketline

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So nice to catch up with colleagues on the @ExeterUCU@twitter.com picket line today. Weather didn't dampen our spirits! #ucuRISING.

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First for me. I am on Strike. #ucurising My wages have been reduced in real terms by 25% and pension cut. Hard to get sympathy for University Lecturers, I know, but we don’t live in Ivory Towers. We work hard to make a positive contribution to society. There has to come a point when enough is enough

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UK University Strikes 

Staff at Durham University on strike as part of the University and College Union’s national industrial action to defend the right to a fair pension, fair pay, secure contracts, and equality at work.

#HigherEd
#UCUstrike
#ucustrikes
#ucuRISING
Photo from: twitter.com/ucuatdurham/status

Solidarity with today! (and tomorrow and next Wednesday) over unjustifiable pension cuts and the four fights: Working & Learning Conditions, Casualization & Precarity, Inequality, and Pay

* [Here's an excellent introduction to the ongoing dispute](canva.com/design/DAFSAUPVw6M/0)
* [Here's a deeper dive into the issues](docs.google.com/document/d/1qH)
* [Here are some Staff Student Solidarity Testimonials](docs.google.com/document/d/1gT)

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Did #austerity cause #Brexit? In the past weeks there was much talk in the UK on a return of #austerity. I am a Prof of Economics at Warwick University and I wrote a paper in 2018 that shows how #austerity was instrumental to bringing about #Brexit. This is a means of #introduction on here.

Open Access ➡️ doi.org/10.1257/aer.20181164

The paper shows that #austerity was a pivotal driver of #Brexit result. But that is only half the story: most likely there wouldnt have been an #EUReferendum ...

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As a #ScreenReader user, I find #hashtags at the end of a post to be suboptimal. As I'm unable to visually scan, I don't know that you haven't written anything after the hashtags, and hence have to choose between: listening to them anyway, or being okay with potentially missing content. When written inline within the flow of your text, this problem doesn't occur. #accessibility #a11y

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This year, the speed limit in #Bordeaux dropped from 50 km/h to 30 (30 to 20 mph). Joins #Montpellier #Grenoble, #Nice, #Lille, #Nantes, 200 other cities in #France with 30 km/h limits.

This has already led to an astonishing 70% decrease in crash fatalities.

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