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UK Higher Education Strike 

I am grateful to the many students from our MSc programmes expressing support for staff in their strike aims.

Those pink sashes make a lovely addition to the graduation robes!

@ucu
@ucuedinburgh

#ucuRISING #graduation #EdinburghUni

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📣 The UK university sector is at breaking point & staff are standing up for a better future for this fundamental public institution #UCUstrike

Why❓
✅ Improving working conditions
✅ Reversing large pension cuts
✅ Tackling inequalities
✅ Stopping pay cuts.

Staff's working conditions are students' learning conditions.

Who/Where❓ librarians, IT workers, admin & professional services, early career researchers, academics… at 150 UK universities.

Scenes from #Edinburgh today 👇 #ucuRISING

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Britští akademici dnes zahájili protestní stávku. Požadují mimo jiné vyšší platy (bez rozdílu na gender/etnický původ), kratší pracovní týden (35 hodin), konec prekarizace a systematický boj proti vyhoření a stresu z přepracovanosti.

Mají na to univerzitní odbory (UCU).

#ucuRISING

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🐾 Wish we could be at the picket lines in Edinburgh, but we struggle a wee bit in social situations… HOWEVER, we have endured an unwanted bath in support of #UCUstrikes, and we sent our human to the picket and the rally #DogsOnPickets #UCUrising #Dachshunds

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I had a great time studying in the UK, so today I'm especially thinking of some of the great lecturers I've had, but also librarians and researchers I've interacted and worked with, who are striking, again, because you should be heard, and deserve so much better. #UCURising #UCUStrike

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My university thinks marching strikers on the pavement outside the uni need a security escort. Not at all sinister! #ucurising

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As UK academics are once more on strike, here is an extremely informative read by
Dr. Lee Jones on the impact of the marketization of higher education on students and staff

#UCUrising

medium.com/@drleejones/the-sev

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#Strikes #UCU If you pay peanuts, you get pickets. 

Massive turnout for the #UCU strikes at Cardiff University.
At a big rally now, in defence of our pensions, pay, and conditions.
Spent the morning on the pickets outside my own building.
#UCURISING
For more info on the strikes check out: ucu.org.uk/rising

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Thoughts go out to all the University staff who are on strike today. I know it is never easy for educators to decide to strike, and when they do they often feel guilty for doing so.

#ucuRising

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📣 I work 12 hr days + on wknds because I believe in universities. But I’m now paid much 👇 less than I was 6 yrs ago. I juggle teaching, supervision, research/course admin, research, funding applications and more, but my university keeps asking for 👆more!!
We are broken. Enough is enough #UCUrising

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On the picket line (in the rain) this morning trying to ask uni's for better conditions, pay and pensions for uni staff. Hard to see how we will retain staff or encourage students this is a good career choice if things continue as is. #ExeterUCU #UCURising #UCU #FalmouthUCU

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I’ll never forget how, at the University of York, when our lecturers and tutors were on strike, the University reacted in the wildest way. Rather than put the withheld pay back into the pockets of staff, it gave students ‘affected’ by strikes free graduation gowns?! And we had no choice in the matter.

yorkpress.co.uk/news/16330211.

Solidarity with #UCU, people are too ready to screw you over. #UCURising

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On #strike outside the King's College London #KCL Maughan Library with #UNISON #union with our #UCU colleagues. We are striking for fairer pay, fairer workloads and more action on pay gaps. A decade of below-inflation pay rises is not good enough #WereWorthMore #UCUrising

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#Solidarity ✊ with @ucu today and all of my colleagues on #strike in the UK.

#Academics have been driven into the ground since before the #pandemic but we did our bit and kept going for the sake of our students during it! We now deserve better! We need an inclusive workplace that respects the lives of #Trans :heart_sp_trans: & #NonBinary :heart_sp_nb: staff! We want healthy working practices! Inclusivity for every disability & ethnicity! We need better pay & pensions! #UCURising #UCU :artpaw:

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We need change, we need respect, we need security. For us, for our students, for junior and precarious colleagues. Enough is enough. #ucuRISING #UCUstrike

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