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Solidarity with all @ucu FE strikers this week 📢 🗓️14-16 January 2026 📍Find and support your nearest picket: bit.ly/FEPickets 1/3 @DrJoGrady #StrikeMap #NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike #Education #FurtherEducation

@ucu Well done to all involved! 👏👏👏✊💪

Myerscough College staff have won, proof that employers can settle when they engage. Now 25 colleges remain in dispute, and staff will strike this week (14–16 Jan) for fair pay and conditions. College leaders must come back to the table. ucu.org.uk/article/14304/……

🪧Strike, 🪧Strike, 🧑‍🏫Education Strike Find your nearest strike via strikemap.org Solidarity to all @ucu FE members taking action. #StrikeMap

Solidarity with all branches striking this week for better pay, workload and conditions ✊️

Tomorrow, we strike. This week, several college leaders have come to the table but for many staff the fight continues. Our members will be on picket lines bright and early! Show your support and solidarity. ✊

This morning at Working Men’s College, FE staff are standing together. FE teachers are demanding more, fair pay, fair workloads, and respect for the vital work they do. ✊ Stand with FE staff

College lecturers in England are paid £7,000+ less than their equivalents in schools and 6th form colleges. Our members aren’t having it anymore. Proud to stand alongside thousands taking strike action today.

UCU members are on strike today in 25 colleges across the UK. Their starting salaries are just above minimum wage and well below their equivalents in schools and 6th form colleges. This has to change. Let our members know you back them.

Solidarity with all those @ucu members at colleges across the country taking strike action over low pay and unsustainable workloads. You have our full support! ✊💪

Please our HE colleagues @ucunorthumbria by signing this petition to stop management taking staff out of the Teachers Pension Scheme - megaphone.org.uk/petitions/nort…

@FEWeek We send our solidarity to colleagues around the country taking industrial action on this issue. This is always a last resort for members who care deeply about their learners. The AoC have been complicit for many, many years in driving down pay and conditions for staff in FE.

🪧 Teachers in 33 colleges will walk out for three days in January in strikes over pay and workloads, UCU has announced feweek.co.uk/ucu-reveals-ja…

@UCUNorthern @ucu @DrJoGrady #Solidarity to all those staff under threat. ✊

Teesside University welcomes staff and students to a new academic year, but then tells 39 Principal Lecturers that they have to apply for a new job, and that over one third of them face redundancy. ucu.org.uk/article/14209 @ucu & @DrJoGrady say: “Rethink” these job cuts

@jonbryan @unitetheunion ✊

I’m a member of @unitetheunion and I’ll be taking strike action over the coming weeks. You can find details of the dispute and the dates of the action in the link below. I won’t be using this account while I am taking strike action. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/str…

@tes @TheNFER Agreed, it should, but when is pay in Further Education going to be taken seriously? The pay gap is massive and unsustainable for retention and recruitment, time for a #NewDealforFE

Teacher pay should rise by more than 3% next year, and then by at least 6.1% from 2026-27, urges @TheNFER in new report tes.com/magazine/news/…

@UCUatTCC @UCUNorthern @ucu @DrJoGrady @NewcastleUniUCU Shocking situation. Solidarity to all across the whole HE sector taking action. 💪✊

@UCUNorthern @ucu @DrJoGrady @NewcastleUniUCU Good luck to all those on the picket lines!

🚨🪧🚨📣🚨 Tomorrow, our members at Newcastle University will take strike action against the impact of £35million of cuts. Pickets will be joined by @ucu General Secretary @DrJoGrady Send them your support: @NewcastleUniUCU Full story: ucu.org.uk/article/13915

We’re not normally given to bigging up corporate business but well played @BootsUK for this initiative! #recycle boots-uk.com/newsroom/news/…?

It’d be great if you could take a couple of minutes to support Education Support’s campaign to highlight stress, burnout and anxiety in teaching. Follow the link to find out more and write to your MP. facebook.com/share/p/19shKk…

Ofsted’s consultation shows that absolutely no lessons have been learned – even staff are concerned about the “rushed and botched framework” it proposes. It’s time for a new inspection that is supportive, effective and fair. Make your voice heard in the consultation – it’s time for radical reform. #AbolishOfsted gov.uk/government/con…

Please consider signing this petition to oppose the ban on staff speaking to their colleagues Please share widely University of Sunderland: NO to management ‘gagging order’ speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/sunderland-uni…

Sunderland Uni management forces staff to stay silent about redundancy risk. "It is outrageous for staff who have been threatened with the sack to effectively be gagged by the university and prevented from telling their colleagues." @jonbryan bbc.com/news/articles/…