UCU Scotland President

From today all tweets from this account will be from Jeanette Findlay who assumed the Presidency on 29/5/23 for a period of two years. Solidarity to all our members currently taking part in a marking and assessment boycott or strike action.

Today I end my term of office as UCUS President. It was an honour to be elected and to serve the union I have been a member of since 1987. Thank you to members for their trust and thank you to @UCUScotland staff for all their support. If you are not in a union, join one! Sin é.

Today UCU stands in solidarity with workers around the world. Fair pay. Secure contracts. Academic freedom. We’re proud to continue the fight in higher and further education. ✊ Together, we are stronger. #InternationalWorkersDay #UCU #Solidarity

🚨BREAKING -- Declassified managed to locate and question the head of Britain's military, Admiral Tony Radakin, about the intelligence his military is sharing with Israel.

The future of the University of Dundee will be fought for by our movement. #STUC25

United and fearless, we will march - along with the @PovertyAlliance and others throughout Scotland - to demand better for our movement and for our people. #ScotlandDemandsBetter #STUC25

New Dundee University plan scales back job cuts - UCU says this is in no doubt down to the pressure from UCU, all unions and the wider community #SaveHE bbc.com/news/articles/…

Institute of Employment Rights/ Trade Union Coordinating Group meeting #STUC25 Eddie Dempsey @RMTunion 'The trade union movement has been ripped out of working class communities…the work that we did to campaign in working people common interests has been torn out of communities'

'We need to put the trade unions back into communities' and calling for strengthening the Employment Rights Bill, with sectoral bargaining, and the right to take solidarity action - Eddie Dempsey @RMTunion #stuc25

Discussion on Employment Rights Bill tonight- there's work to do across the trade union movement to strengthen the Bill. We need sectoral collective bargaining- and repeal of all anti trade union legislation. #SolidarityMatters

We are at @stuc25 in Dundee, delegates are welcome to visit our stall and talk all things health and safety

It’s a relief to see Dundee University management backtrack on 700 job cuts. They now need to take compulsory redundancies off the table #StopTheCuts #DundeeUni ucu.org.uk/article/13999/…

Our delegate Grant Buttars seconded Dundee TUC’s motion on University of Dundee Governance - workers should not pay the price for management failure #StopTheCuts #SaveHE #STUC25

General Secretary @DrJoGrady moving @ucu motion on HE in crisis - it’s a “business model that only works by driving staff pay, conditions and morale into the ground” #SaveHE #stopthecuts #STUC25

Our movement has come together at #STUC25 to fight for what matters: rebuilding our public services, fighting the far right and winning a better deal for workers. 👇Watch the roundup from @RozFoyer on day one of Congress.

The far right are no friend of working people. Our governments need to buck their ideas up. They must raise the standards in our public services and in our discourse if we're to defeat the far right. @RozFoyer / @BBCRadioScot #SundayShow

NEW: @ScottishTUC has backed calls for ‘practical’ solutions to tackle the rise of the far-right, warning the UK and Scottish governments that they are not ‘off the hook’ thenational.scot/news/25120414.…

We agree with the First Minister @JohnSwinney that investment in our public services must be at the heart of the Scottish Government's agenda. Resilient, well funded and world-class public services are a key driver in building our economy and eliminating poverty.

We cannot fall into the trap of treating Reform and Nigel Farage as a convenient political bogeyman. Doing so allows others off the hook and allows deeper, structural problems to go unchallenged. @RozFoyer/@heraldscotland #STUC25 heraldscotland.com/opinion/251189…

Today is International Workers' Memorial Day and at STUC Congress trade unionists came together to remember all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice simply doing their job. #iwmd25 #stuc25