Regine Pilling
@regipilling.bsky.social
She / Her. I teach Politics at Capital City College and I'm also the UCU Branch Sec and on UCU NEC for London & East FE.
And...I'm running to be UCU Vice-President from FE. Website: reginepilling.com Ballot runs 30th Jan - 2nd march - please VOTE!
And...I'm running to be UCU Vice-President from FE. Website: reginepilling.com Ballot runs 30th Jan - 2nd march - please VOTE!
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Refugees are welcome here - proud the UCU UHI branch is a signatory to this welcome letter @uhiucu.bsky.social #RefugeesWelcome
www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/you-are...
www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/you-are...
‘You are welcome. You are not alone’ - Inverness church leaders and politicians sign open letter to asylum seekers
Church leaders and politicians have signed an open letter of welcome to asylum seekers who could arrive in Inverness.
www.inverness-courier.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Refugees are welcome here - proud the UCU UHI branch is a signatory to this welcome letter @uhiucu.bsky.social #RefugeesWelcome
www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/you-are...
www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/you-are...
Solidarity - amazing pickets 👏
Important fights @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social & by UCU Southampton Solent.
If management are successful at taking these workers out of TPS, management will try it elsewhere. UCU needs to do it all it can to back up these beanches. Please show your solidarity!
Important fights @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social & by UCU Southampton Solent.
If management are successful at taking these workers out of TPS, management will try it elsewhere. UCU needs to do it all it can to back up these beanches. Please show your solidarity!
We are on strike because we don't accept the "choice" between a pay freeze (& being taken out of national bargaining) & being forced out of the teachers' pension scheme.
Please support us by writing to the VC: qrcc.me/t5z6wzqmb36u
And/or donate to the solidarity fund: www.ucu-unn.org.uk/hardshipf
Please support us by writing to the VC: qrcc.me/t5z6wzqmb36u
And/or donate to the solidarity fund: www.ucu-unn.org.uk/hardshipf
February 12, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Solidarity - amazing pickets 👏
Important fights @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social & by UCU Southampton Solent.
If management are successful at taking these workers out of TPS, management will try it elsewhere. UCU needs to do it all it can to back up these beanches. Please show your solidarity!
Important fights @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social & by UCU Southampton Solent.
If management are successful at taking these workers out of TPS, management will try it elsewhere. UCU needs to do it all it can to back up these beanches. Please show your solidarity!
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Says it all @northumbriauni.bsky.social right now.
February 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Says it all @northumbriauni.bsky.social right now.
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Heading to the strike rally at noon outside @ucu.org.uk head office.
#HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
#HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Heading to the strike rally at noon outside @ucu.org.uk head office.
#HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
#HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
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Show Education some Love 🎉
Londonmet staff and students fight for Justice against cruel cuts ❤️
Londonmet staff and students fight for Justice against cruel cuts ❤️
February 9, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Show Education some Love 🎉
Londonmet staff and students fight for Justice against cruel cuts ❤️
Londonmet staff and students fight for Justice against cruel cuts ❤️
Solidarity @ducuuo.bsky.social
Your level of consistently pushing back, and winning, is an inspiration to the rest of UCU
Solidarity in this latest phase!
Your level of consistently pushing back, and winning, is an inspiration to the rest of UCU
Solidarity in this latest phase!
The current situation at the University of Dundee is that we are not getting our annual pay increase and that promotion processes are paused.
At the same time the uni is refusing to rule out compulsory redundancies, it is advertising over 20 new senior management jobs for academic staff.
At the same time the uni is refusing to rule out compulsory redundancies, it is advertising over 20 new senior management jobs for academic staff.
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Solidarity @ducuuo.bsky.social
Your level of consistently pushing back, and winning, is an inspiration to the rest of UCU
Solidarity in this latest phase!
Your level of consistently pushing back, and winning, is an inspiration to the rest of UCU
Solidarity in this latest phase!
Wow! Congratulations to the Birmingham Bin strikers - that's demonstrating collective power.
Very pleased we invited one of your strikers to UCU Congress last year. Hopefully, at this year's Congress, we will be talking about your victory 👍
Solidarity!
Very pleased we invited one of your strikers to UCU Congress last year. Hopefully, at this year's Congress, we will be talking about your victory 👍
Solidarity!
🚨 BREAKING: Birmingham bins strikers vote 100% to keep striking right through the summer.
That will be another summer of chaos for workers & residents & a whole year of @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social failing to even negotiate. The bin workers and people of Birmingham deserve better!
cutt.ly/Vtnp52HC
That will be another summer of chaos for workers & residents & a whole year of @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social failing to even negotiate. The bin workers and people of Birmingham deserve better!
cutt.ly/Vtnp52HC
Birmingham bin workers vote to extend strikes past May elections and into September
Council workers and Job & Talent workers more determined than ever to secure fair deal
www.unitetheunion.org
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Wow! Congratulations to the Birmingham Bin strikers - that's demonstrating collective power.
Very pleased we invited one of your strikers to UCU Congress last year. Hopefully, at this year's Congress, we will be talking about your victory 👍
Solidarity!
Very pleased we invited one of your strikers to UCU Congress last year. Hopefully, at this year's Congress, we will be talking about your victory 👍
Solidarity!
Solidarity to Unite UCU members - shameful behaviour, particularly the victimisation of a H&S officer.
UCU SMT need to stop this now.
#HandsOffMarie
UCU SMT need to stop this now.
#HandsOffMarie
Say “NO” to Victimisation in @ucu.org.uk
🚨 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
🚨 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
February 10, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Solidarity to Unite UCU members - shameful behaviour, particularly the victimisation of a H&S officer.
UCU SMT need to stop this now.
#HandsOffMarie
UCU SMT need to stop this now.
#HandsOffMarie
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Speakers at today's 1000+ North London Unity demonstration against racism and fascism.
From left to right: Jeremy Corbyn, a speaker from Day-Mer Kurdish community group, and Liz Wheatley from Camden Unison
From left to right: Jeremy Corbyn, a speaker from Day-Mer Kurdish community group, and Liz Wheatley from Camden Unison
February 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Speakers at today's 1000+ North London Unity demonstration against racism and fascism.
From left to right: Jeremy Corbyn, a speaker from Day-Mer Kurdish community group, and Liz Wheatley from Camden Unison
From left to right: Jeremy Corbyn, a speaker from Day-Mer Kurdish community group, and Liz Wheatley from Camden Unison
Good community demonstration today, opposing the far right.
49 years ago - the 'Battle of Wood Green' saw anti-fascists beat back the National Front. We need to stop the rise of racism and fascism again.
Next stop - 28th March Together Alliance demo!
49 years ago - the 'Battle of Wood Green' saw anti-fascists beat back the National Front. We need to stop the rise of racism and fascism again.
Next stop - 28th March Together Alliance demo!
February 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Good community demonstration today, opposing the far right.
49 years ago - the 'Battle of Wood Green' saw anti-fascists beat back the National Front. We need to stop the rise of racism and fascism again.
Next stop - 28th March Together Alliance demo!
49 years ago - the 'Battle of Wood Green' saw anti-fascists beat back the National Front. We need to stop the rise of racism and fascism again.
Next stop - 28th March Together Alliance demo!
We need leaders who consistently pushback. During negotiations, negotiators may have sharpest arguments but if there isn't an active branch behind them - those arguments will be disregarded. The only way you have an active branch is by reps listening to members. www.reginepilling.com/updates/from...
RP4VP Update | Members voices & developing collective power - winning in our branch
www.reginepilling.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM
We need leaders who consistently pushback. During negotiations, negotiators may have sharpest arguments but if there isn't an active branch behind them - those arguments will be disregarded. The only way you have an active branch is by reps listening to members. www.reginepilling.com/updates/from...
Great to have endorsements from my branch - Alyson & Carly have taught me so much, as the previous branch sec's at my college.
A branch sec is nothing without an active membership - management will never listen to your wise words in negotiations, without knowing you have members behind you.
A branch sec is nothing without an active membership - management will never listen to your wise words in negotiations, without knowing you have members behind you.
February 6, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Great to have endorsements from my branch - Alyson & Carly have taught me so much, as the previous branch sec's at my college.
A branch sec is nothing without an active membership - management will never listen to your wise words in negotiations, without knowing you have members behind you.
A branch sec is nothing without an active membership - management will never listen to your wise words in negotiations, without knowing you have members behind you.
And we leafleted every desk, and put posters up everywhere.
Really good response from colleagues - we need some light in these dark tines.
We are not outnumbered, we're out organised (as Malcolm X said) - so let's get organised!
Really good response from colleagues - we need some light in these dark tines.
We are not outnumbered, we're out organised (as Malcolm X said) - so let's get organised!
February 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
And we leafleted every desk, and put posters up everywhere.
Really good response from colleagues - we need some light in these dark tines.
We are not outnumbered, we're out organised (as Malcolm X said) - so let's get organised!
Really good response from colleagues - we need some light in these dark tines.
We are not outnumbered, we're out organised (as Malcolm X said) - so let's get organised!
UCU CCC members are prepped for the Together demo on the 28th.
Reform UK and their fascist mates are a threat to our communities, to education, and to everything we hold dear. They must be stopped.
We can and need a bigger anti-racist movement. Love, hope and unity ❤️
#TogetherAlliance #UCU
Reform UK and their fascist mates are a threat to our communities, to education, and to everything we hold dear. They must be stopped.
We can and need a bigger anti-racist movement. Love, hope and unity ❤️
#TogetherAlliance #UCU
February 5, 2026 at 9:30 PM
UCU CCC members are prepped for the Together demo on the 28th.
Reform UK and their fascist mates are a threat to our communities, to education, and to everything we hold dear. They must be stopped.
We can and need a bigger anti-racist movement. Love, hope and unity ❤️
#TogetherAlliance #UCU
Reform UK and their fascist mates are a threat to our communities, to education, and to everything we hold dear. They must be stopped.
We can and need a bigger anti-racist movement. Love, hope and unity ❤️
#TogetherAlliance #UCU
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In the aftermath of the acquittal of six of the Filton 24, their families have spoken about what the verdict could mean
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...
Supporters respond as first six Filton 24 prisoners walk free
In the aftermath of the acquittal of six of the Filton 24, their families have spoken about what the verdict could mean
www.thecanary.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:43 PM
In the aftermath of the acquittal of six of the Filton 24, their families have spoken about what the verdict could mean
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...
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For full details and a complete index of the trial, see the brilliant reporting from our friends at @realmediapress.bsky.social
FREE THE FILTON 24 ✊
LIFT THE BAN ON PALESTINE ACTION 🇵🇸
realmedia.press/filton-verdi...
FREE THE FILTON 24 ✊
LIFT THE BAN ON PALESTINE ACTION 🇵🇸
realmedia.press/filton-verdi...
THE FILTON TRIAL - THE VERDICTS - NO CONVICTIONS - Real Media - The View From Below
Following our detailed coverage of this long trial, we bring you the verdicts as they have just been announced in court.
realmedia.press
February 4, 2026 at 12:47 PM
For full details and a complete index of the trial, see the brilliant reporting from our friends at @realmediapress.bsky.social
FREE THE FILTON 24 ✊
LIFT THE BAN ON PALESTINE ACTION 🇵🇸
realmedia.press/filton-verdi...
FREE THE FILTON 24 ✊
LIFT THE BAN ON PALESTINE ACTION 🇵🇸
realmedia.press/filton-verdi...
Prison Education is essential. Literacy rates are markedly lower amongst prisoners. To stop the cycle of crime - they need skills and the possibility of a better future.
Core education in prisons across England will reduce by up to 25%.
In UCU we need a strategy to reverse this.
Core education in prisons across England will reduce by up to 25%.
In UCU we need a strategy to reverse this.
Due to a focus on reading by the prison inspectorate and Ofsted, progress is being made on literacy in prisons. But new education contracts have now cut education provision across the board
@jonbcollins.bsky.social @prisonersed.bsky.social
@jonbcollins.bsky.social @prisonersed.bsky.social
feweek.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Prison Education is essential. Literacy rates are markedly lower amongst prisoners. To stop the cycle of crime - they need skills and the possibility of a better future.
Core education in prisons across England will reduce by up to 25%.
In UCU we need a strategy to reverse this.
Core education in prisons across England will reduce by up to 25%.
In UCU we need a strategy to reverse this.
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“Closing Southend means losing homegrown social workers people who understand this community.”
Join us this Thursday as we rally to stop the cuts and save Southend’s campus.
🕛 12:00–13:00 | 📍 The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend
Join us this Thursday as we rally to stop the cuts and save Southend’s campus.
🕛 12:00–13:00 | 📍 The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend
February 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
“Closing Southend means losing homegrown social workers people who understand this community.”
Join us this Thursday as we rally to stop the cuts and save Southend’s campus.
🕛 12:00–13:00 | 📍 The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend
Join us this Thursday as we rally to stop the cuts and save Southend’s campus.
🕛 12:00–13:00 | 📍 The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend
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Stronger together ✊
Hear from #LboroUCU members on why union membership matters and how we support each other.
Be part of it: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
@ucu.org.uk #UCU #JoinAUnion
Hear from #LboroUCU members on why union membership matters and how we support each other.
Be part of it: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
@ucu.org.uk #UCU #JoinAUnion
February 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Stronger together ✊
Hear from #LboroUCU members on why union membership matters and how we support each other.
Be part of it: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
@ucu.org.uk #UCU #JoinAUnion
Hear from #LboroUCU members on why union membership matters and how we support each other.
Be part of it: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/
@ucu.org.uk #UCU #JoinAUnion
This is quite a powerful piece on the impact that this closure will have www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:09 AM
This is quite a powerful piece on the impact that this closure will have www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Solidarity to all @ucuessex.bsky.social this is sadly, another shocking attack on HE. We need a national strategy to defend a diverse and accessible HE.
One of our branch co-presidents, Jordan Osserman, talking on BBC Essex this morning about the devastating cuts to our University, and what needs to be done about them. Please share.
We had yet more shocking news this morning - stay tuned.
We had yet more shocking news this morning - stay tuned.
February 4, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Solidarity to all @ucuessex.bsky.social this is sadly, another shocking attack on HE. We need a national strategy to defend a diverse and accessible HE.
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It was great to have Michael Rosen attend our picket line at Great Ormond Street Hospital School on Monday where 4 NEU members have been suspended.
✊ Solidarity to all members at GOSH fighting bullying and unacceptable management practices. #SaveEducation
✊ Solidarity to all members at GOSH fighting bullying and unacceptable management practices. #SaveEducation
February 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
It was great to have Michael Rosen attend our picket line at Great Ormond Street Hospital School on Monday where 4 NEU members have been suspended.
✊ Solidarity to all members at GOSH fighting bullying and unacceptable management practices. #SaveEducation
✊ Solidarity to all members at GOSH fighting bullying and unacceptable management practices. #SaveEducation