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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 15h

Live now!

University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 4d

🚨Join us on Tue 14 Oct at 7pm for a Solidarity Live 📢

We'll be hearing from @rmtunion.bsky.social GS Eddie Dempsey, @equityuk.bsky.social GS Paul Fleming & @fbunational.bsky.social GS @unionstevew.bsky.social ✊

#WeAreTheUniversity

www.youtube.com/@ucuorguk

Solidarity Live. Tues 14 Oct at 7pm. Bringing together HE and FE members with speakers from across the movement

Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 20h

As my profile pic demonstrates I am a big fan of costumes on pickets! ❤️

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 20h

FE ballots will be landing from today onwards! Look out for a bright pink envelope. Vote Yes! Return your ballot ASAP and then encourage your colleagues to do the same.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 5d

Staff in FE need real change now

Pay has fallen by a third in real terms while workloads have become unmanageable

Vote YES for a Better Deal for FE ✅

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 7d

Ballot papers are landing!

Ballots open on the 13th!

Vote YES for fair pay, safe workloads and binding national agreements.

This is our chance to win.
#VoteYes #NewDealForFE

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 6d

Kemi Badenoch saying Terry Pratchett is her favorite author is bonkers. She may have read them but she definitely didn't understand them.

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 7d

Solidarity Imperial College London on strike today ✊

A 2% pay offer is a pay cut!

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 10d

Chuffed that my little purrball Bellatrix is officially in remission from Lymphoma with no observable traces found by the vet at her latest appointment. Daily doses of steroids, Chlorambucil every 2 days and supplemented with Turkey Tail mushroom and salmon oil is doing the trick 🙌🏼

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 10d

Nice to see the Greens upholding the values that this Toryesque Labour government appears to have forgotten. I've always voted Green and will continue to do so.

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 10d

Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 11d

My mum would do a full on Hyacinth Bucket when she answered the phone or called up some TV competition phone line. Northern Irish accent fully disappeared and she put on a posh British accent. For some reason she thought that would help her win 😅

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 11d

Aww she was absolutely brilliant 😭

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 11d

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 12d

feweek.co.uk/revealed-v-l...

Rather than admit T-Levels have been an unmitigated disaster (Poorly implemented, 33% drop out rate) they're forging ahead regardless. Removing BTECs will disadvantage students and put additional strain on teachers as they scramble to set up whatever V-levels looks like

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

Ministers are poised to announce new qualifications as 'third route' between A-levels and T Levels as colleges prepare to axe applied generals

feweek.co.uk

Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 12d

RIp Jane Goodall

Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · 12d

💚 Very sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall. Her work and life’s mission championed conservation and the protection of our planet, and deepened our understanding of the natural world.

🌿 “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 12d

NEW: Staff at Imperial College London will strike for 10 days this autumn over pay and conditions.

Jo Grady: “Staff are the backbone of Imperial and deserve an actual pay rise. Striking is a last resort, but members have had enough and are prepared to fight back”

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1421....

Imperial staff to strike next week in pay and conditions row

Staff at Imperial College London will take ten days of strike action over the next two months in a row over pay and conditions, the University and College Union announced today

www.ucu.org.uk

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 12d

What is going on in my city? Absolutely awful 😢

Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 12d

Horrific news

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Manchester synagogue: Four people injured in car and stabbing attack at Manchester synagogue - suspect shot by police

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says it's believed the suspect is dead, and that the immediate danger appears to be over.

www.bbc.co.uk

Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 13d

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 19d

Terry Pratchett knew what's up. One of my favorite explanations of perpetual poverty.

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 20d

INTO Manchester have posted 20million in profit. Employers have avoided talks for 4 months! Disgraceful!

Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 20d

Solidarity with INTO Manchester on strike today! 2% is a joke.

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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 20d

Pups on pickets! @uonucu.bsky.social

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · Sep 14

The "fk your feelings" crowd are certainly having big feelings. Where was this level of outrage when Melissa Hortman, her husband and dog were shot and people posted disgusting things about it? Hypocrites.

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · Sep 13

Stephen Yaxley Racist McBigotFace

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