Unite UCU

🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 🔥 75% turnout 🔥 73% YES to strike action 🔥 81% YES to ASOS Our members will not tolerate victimisation and won’t be intimidated. UCU staff are not the enemy. It’s beyond time for the GS to talk to us. #HandsOffMarie

Sending massive solidarity to Ryan and everyone at @UniteITF and elsewhere whose employers are undermining their own core values.

As our current mandate ends today so does our current strike action. Our new ballot over TU victimisation closes on Wednesday. Our Safety Officer remains under threat & our employer has made no effort to find a resolution. We don’t want to have to strike again. #HandsOffMarie

Over 100 attendees at our rally last night and another solid picket at the @ucu North West Regional Office today ✊🪧 #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation

Publicly calling out any employer puts a big target on your back, especially so ours, so it takes some gumption to speak out. It’s also a tangible demonstration of solidarity with a colleague being victimised. So thank you to our chair for standing with Marie. #HandsOffMarie

This is what it looks like when you refuse to tolerate trade union victimisation: voting YES and YES to defend a colleague. #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation

Not only do we strike to demand @ucu stop its year-long campaign of trade union victimisation, but we also vote again to make clear we’re taking a stand. The TU movement is united on one matter: don’t act unlawfully to one of your own. #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation

Heading to the strike rally at noon outside @ucu head office. #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation

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Say “NO” to Victimisation in @ucu 🚨 Strike rally ⏰ Thurs 12 Feb @ noon 📍 UCU HQ, Carlow Street, London Including guest speaker for the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine 🇵🇸 Everyone welcome! Bring your branch banner & your solidarity to say #HandsOffMarie

Unite against TU Victimisation @unitetheunion doesn't tolerate the victimisation of its reps by employers. Today our members in the North West are demonstrating what solidarity looks like. It's time @ucu ended the victimisation of Marie, our H&S Officer. #Strike #HandsOffMarie

📣 Hands off Marie! Tell @DrJoGrady and @ucu to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep. ✍️ jgrady@ucu.org.uk #HandsOffMarie

Regrettably our members will be commencing strike action from 9 February over the victimisation of our Health and Safety Officer. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/ucu…

News. Solidarity comrades. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/sad…

Please see our statement for further information. uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/sta…

Following a report on @drjogrady's NEC update, we want to clarify that all dispute issues are unresolved: ❌trade union victimisation ❌failure to negotiate a hybrid working policy ❌failure to adequately deal with safety issues ❌breach of recognition agreement & other policies.

ASOS which is "work in the same way you’ve done for years" is not irresponsible. It's protecting our members until a fair & equitable hybrid policy is agreed. UCU SMT then deducting 100% of daily pay from staff taking ASOS & undermining its own policy? Now that’s irresponsible.

It’s also well past time for our employer to sit down and negotiate a fair policy on hybrid working with us. We once again call on @drjogrady to meet us for unconditional talks to resolve our dispute. /end uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/ret…

To be clear: imposing or even threatening financial penalties for staff with disabilities is wrong now and would be wrong at any time. This kind of behaviour needs to end. Now.

Being disabled shouldn’t mean you’re on a lower wage, or that you’re afraid to ask for support at work because it could hit you financially. Having a reasonable adjustment should never lead to a pay cut. But this is what’s happening to some UCU staff right now. Short 🧵