UEA UCU says join a union
@uea-ucu.bsky.social
The trade union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of East Anglia
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A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
Colleagues at Kent and Greenwich are reeling from the news today. Higher education is in free fall and staff and students are bearing the brunt of it.
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September 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Colleagues at Kent and Greenwich are reeling from the news today. Higher education is in free fall and staff and students are bearing the brunt of it.
Seriously, JOIN A UNION ✊
www.ucu.org.uk/join
Seriously, JOIN A UNION ✊
www.ucu.org.uk/join
Plans to cut mental health courses at the University of East Anglia have been criticised as “short-sighted” and a “dereliction of civic responsibility”.
More on the proposed Clinical Psychology course closures at UEA via @timeshighered.bsky.social - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/closure...
More on the proposed Clinical Psychology course closures at UEA via @timeshighered.bsky.social - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/closure...
Closure of UEA mental health courses ‘deeply concerning’
University says NHS and apprenticeship changes make programmes ‘no longer viable’ but union calls move a ‘dereliction of civic responsibility’
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Plans to cut mental health courses at the University of East Anglia have been criticised as “short-sighted” and a “dereliction of civic responsibility”.
More on the proposed Clinical Psychology course closures at UEA via @timeshighered.bsky.social - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/closure...
More on the proposed Clinical Psychology course closures at UEA via @timeshighered.bsky.social - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/closure...
BREAKING: University of East Anglia plans to axe THREE vital mental health training programmes, putting 19 jobs at risk. These programmes train frontline NHS mental health workers who work directly with vulnerable patients.
July 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
BREAKING: University of East Anglia plans to axe THREE vital mental health training programmes, putting 19 jobs at risk. These programmes train frontline NHS mental health workers who work directly with vulnerable patients.
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Excellent piece from UEA UCU committee member Conor Bollins who asks when will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social tackle the crisis engulfing our colleges and universties?
We need leadership and action now from the government.
We need leadership and action now from the government.
🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?'
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
Education, education, education? When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?
All levels of our education system face a systemic crisis. Yet as with so many other areas of policy, Keir Starmer doesn't seem to have any hopes for education at all, writes Connor Bollins.
labouroutlook.org
May 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Excellent piece from UEA UCU committee member Conor Bollins who asks when will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social tackle the crisis engulfing our colleges and universties?
We need leadership and action now from the government.
We need leadership and action now from the government.
🖊️"Our fear is that if we do not resist compulsory redundancy plans now, UEA will find itself in this same situation year after year with the institution ultimately plummeting towards a death spiral."
👓Read this piece by one of our committee members on the Higher Ed crisis.
🚩 #SaveUEA
👓Read this piece by one of our committee members on the Higher Ed crisis.
🚩 #SaveUEA
🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?'
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
Education, education, education? When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?
All levels of our education system face a systemic crisis. Yet as with so many other areas of policy, Keir Starmer doesn't seem to have any hopes for education at all, writes Connor Bollins.
labouroutlook.org
May 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🖊️"Our fear is that if we do not resist compulsory redundancy plans now, UEA will find itself in this same situation year after year with the institution ultimately plummeting towards a death spiral."
👓Read this piece by one of our committee members on the Higher Ed crisis.
🚩 #SaveUEA
👓Read this piece by one of our committee members on the Higher Ed crisis.
🚩 #SaveUEA
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“At UEA, it is understood that 22 staff are earning more than £150k and 4 staff are on £205k. At a time when university managers are pushing through large-scale job cuts, this is frankly obscene”
🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?'
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
Education, education, education? When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?
All levels of our education system face a systemic crisis. Yet as with so many other areas of policy, Keir Starmer doesn't seem to have any hopes for education at all, writes Connor Bollins.
labouroutlook.org
May 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“At UEA, it is understood that 22 staff are earning more than £150k and 4 staff are on £205k. At a time when university managers are pushing through large-scale job cuts, this is frankly obscene”
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Important piece by @conorbollins.bsky.social
not only explaining the situation, discussing remediation but posing the important question about "what universities are and what they should be"...
@uea-ucu.bsky.social has been challenging mgmt on all these issues as we face redundancies.
not only explaining the situation, discussing remediation but posing the important question about "what universities are and what they should be"...
@uea-ucu.bsky.social has been challenging mgmt on all these issues as we face redundancies.
🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?'
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
Education, education, education? When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?
All levels of our education system face a systemic crisis. Yet as with so many other areas of policy, Keir Starmer doesn't seem to have any hopes for education at all, writes Connor Bollins.
labouroutlook.org
May 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Important piece by @conorbollins.bsky.social
not only explaining the situation, discussing remediation but posing the important question about "what universities are and what they should be"...
@uea-ucu.bsky.social has been challenging mgmt on all these issues as we face redundancies.
not only explaining the situation, discussing remediation but posing the important question about "what universities are and what they should be"...
@uea-ucu.bsky.social has been challenging mgmt on all these issues as we face redundancies.
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🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?'
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
Education, education, education? When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?
All levels of our education system face a systemic crisis. Yet as with so many other areas of policy, Keir Starmer doesn't seem to have any hopes for education at all, writes Connor Bollins.
labouroutlook.org
May 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?'
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis
🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...
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Last day on the picket today (for now), trying everything we can to hold strong and save the jobs of invaluable colleagues at risk - there are other ways to make the savings, this case has been firmly made to management by the branch - moving forward is wanton cruelty.
📣It is our firm stance that protecting students and staff at UEA requires us to fight compulsory redundancies with every tool we have.
🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us.
🚩Together we can #SaveUEA
🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us.
🚩Together we can #SaveUEA
May 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Last day on the picket today (for now), trying everything we can to hold strong and save the jobs of invaluable colleagues at risk - there are other ways to make the savings, this case has been firmly made to management by the branch - moving forward is wanton cruelty.
📣It is our firm stance that protecting students and staff at UEA requires us to fight compulsory redundancies with every tool we have.
🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us.
🚩Together we can #SaveUEA
🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us.
🚩Together we can #SaveUEA
May 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📣It is our firm stance that protecting students and staff at UEA requires us to fight compulsory redundancies with every tool we have.
🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us.
🚩Together we can #SaveUEA
🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket line this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us.
🚩Together we can #SaveUEA
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Last day on the picket with @uea-ucu.bsky.social , fighting to get management to take compulsory redundancies off the table. Their road is a cruel, unnecessary, and frankly obstinate one. They say they don’t believe morale is low. They say neither us nor the students will notice.
May 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Last day on the picket with @uea-ucu.bsky.social , fighting to get management to take compulsory redundancies off the table. Their road is a cruel, unnecessary, and frankly obstinate one. They say they don’t believe morale is low. They say neither us nor the students will notice.
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But we at @uea-ucu.bsky.social have a vision of a different UEA. One where solidarity, support, and mutual care is core. One where we work together to fight the current dumpster fire that is UK HE. One where we fight for the long term with reasonable ideas, not short term pocket lining.
May 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
But we at @uea-ucu.bsky.social have a vision of a different UEA. One where solidarity, support, and mutual care is core. One where we work together to fight the current dumpster fire that is UK HE. One where we fight for the long term with reasonable ideas, not short term pocket lining.
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🚩We're back on the picket line this morning.
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
May 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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😍Thank you to all of our members giving everything they can to support our industrial action!
💪Together we can keep up the pressure and force the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
💪Together we can keep up the pressure and force the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
May 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
😍Thank you to all of our members giving everything they can to support our industrial action!
💪Together we can keep up the pressure and force the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
💪Together we can keep up the pressure and force the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
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This week friends & colleagues @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social are finding out whether they are facing compulsory redundancy. Sombre times. We don’t think UEA has *ever treated its own people like this before. It’s both cruel & unnecessary @uea-ucu.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This week friends & colleagues @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social are finding out whether they are facing compulsory redundancy. Sombre times. We don’t think UEA has *ever treated its own people like this before. It’s both cruel & unnecessary @uea-ucu.bsky.social
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After the damning immigration white paper yesterday, @uea-ucu.bsky.social staff are back on the picket lines today.
Cuts, casualisation and hostility towards international students. Enough is enough.
Solidarity to all those on the picket line today and this week.
Cuts, casualisation and hostility towards international students. Enough is enough.
Solidarity to all those on the picket line today and this week.
🚩We're back on the picket line this morning.
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
May 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
After the damning immigration white paper yesterday, @uea-ucu.bsky.social staff are back on the picket lines today.
Cuts, casualisation and hostility towards international students. Enough is enough.
Solidarity to all those on the picket line today and this week.
Cuts, casualisation and hostility towards international students. Enough is enough.
Solidarity to all those on the picket line today and this week.
May 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Solidarity to all branches fighting redundancies.
An injury to one is an injury to all.
We see you, we support you and we stand with you ✊✊✊
An injury to one is an injury to all.
We see you, we support you and we stand with you ✊✊✊
Thank you to all the students who've supported us over the last few weeks! Please continue to:
❤️Send messages of support to people on the picket.
🗣️Talk to fellow students about why staff at UEA are on strike.
📨Email the VC and let him know why you support the strike!
#SaveUEA
❤️Send messages of support to people on the picket.
🗣️Talk to fellow students about why staff at UEA are on strike.
📨Email the VC and let him know why you support the strike!
#SaveUEA
May 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Solidarity to all branches fighting redundancies.
An injury to one is an injury to all.
We see you, we support you and we stand with you ✊✊✊
An injury to one is an injury to all.
We see you, we support you and we stand with you ✊✊✊
🚩We're back on the picket line this morning.
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
May 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🚩We're back on the picket line this morning.
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri.
🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
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Back out on the picket today at UEA. On strike to defend my colleagues and friends from compulsory redundancies and from the cruelty being enacted on them to save less than half of a percent of the uni’s budget. @uea-ucu.bsky.social
We’re here all week: come down and see us!
We’re here all week: come down and see us!
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May 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Back out on the picket today at UEA. On strike to defend my colleagues and friends from compulsory redundancies and from the cruelty being enacted on them to save less than half of a percent of the uni’s budget. @uea-ucu.bsky.social
We’re here all week: come down and see us!
We’re here all week: come down and see us!
🚩After a solid week of campaigning, we're looking forward to participating in Norwich Transformed this Saturday.
🎓Find us on the 'Education in Crisis' panel at 10:40am.
📚How can we re-imagine learning across primary, secondary, further, and higher education?
#NorwichTransformed #SaveUEA
🎓Find us on the 'Education in Crisis' panel at 10:40am.
📚How can we re-imagine learning across primary, secondary, further, and higher education?
#NorwichTransformed #SaveUEA
May 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🚩After a solid week of campaigning, we're looking forward to participating in Norwich Transformed this Saturday.
🎓Find us on the 'Education in Crisis' panel at 10:40am.
📚How can we re-imagine learning across primary, secondary, further, and higher education?
#NorwichTransformed #SaveUEA
🎓Find us on the 'Education in Crisis' panel at 10:40am.
📚How can we re-imagine learning across primary, secondary, further, and higher education?
#NorwichTransformed #SaveUEA
Thank you to all the students who've supported us over the last few weeks! Please continue to:
❤️Send messages of support to people on the picket.
🗣️Talk to fellow students about why staff at UEA are on strike.
📨Email the VC and let him know why you support the strike!
#SaveUEA
❤️Send messages of support to people on the picket.
🗣️Talk to fellow students about why staff at UEA are on strike.
📨Email the VC and let him know why you support the strike!
#SaveUEA
May 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thank you to all the students who've supported us over the last few weeks! Please continue to:
❤️Send messages of support to people on the picket.
🗣️Talk to fellow students about why staff at UEA are on strike.
📨Email the VC and let him know why you support the strike!
#SaveUEA
❤️Send messages of support to people on the picket.
🗣️Talk to fellow students about why staff at UEA are on strike.
📨Email the VC and let him know why you support the strike!
#SaveUEA
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A day before our national rally UEA staff are back on the picket line, standing strong against cuts and redundancies.
Solidarity works.
Let’s bring that energy to London tomorrow. #ProtectEducationNow
Solidarity works.
Let’s bring that energy to London tomorrow. #ProtectEducationNow
🥰Lots of support for our strike from members of the public passing the picket line this morning!
🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by! #SaveUEA
🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by! #SaveUEA
May 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A day before our national rally UEA staff are back on the picket line, standing strong against cuts and redundancies.
Solidarity works.
Let’s bring that energy to London tomorrow. #ProtectEducationNow
Solidarity works.
Let’s bring that energy to London tomorrow. #ProtectEducationNow
🥰Lots of support for our strike from members of the public passing the picket line this morning!
🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by! #SaveUEA
🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by! #SaveUEA
May 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🥰Lots of support for our strike from members of the public passing the picket line this morning!
🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by! #SaveUEA
🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by! #SaveUEA
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Despite voluntary redundancies & cost savings already made this year, UEA still want to force through compulsory redundancies to save the last 0.25% of annual operating costs, despite our UCU branch showing them alternative savings routes. UEA can & should “Do Different” & end this cruelty now
📣Pushing through with compulsory redundancies is not in the moral, strategic or financial interest of UEA.
🚩Join us on the picketline, tomorrow from 8am, as we continue to make the case for a brighter future for our university. #SaveUEA
🚩Join us on the picketline, tomorrow from 8am, as we continue to make the case for a brighter future for our university. #SaveUEA
May 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Despite voluntary redundancies & cost savings already made this year, UEA still want to force through compulsory redundancies to save the last 0.25% of annual operating costs, despite our UCU branch showing them alternative savings routes. UEA can & should “Do Different” & end this cruelty now