Suzi Toole
@suzitoole.bsky.social
UCU rep, FE teacher, mad scientist
Proud Chair of the FEC, Women's committee & NW Regional committee
Vice Chair of the Equality committee
Proud Chair of the FEC, Women's committee & NW Regional committee
Vice Chair of the Equality committee
Great result from INTO Manchester! Strike action and well attended pickets led to the employer coming back to the take with an improved offer, double the original. Smashing work from the reps, members and Regional organizers 💪🏼
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Great result from INTO Manchester! Strike action and well attended pickets led to the employer coming back to the take with an improved offer, double the original. Smashing work from the reps, members and Regional organizers 💪🏼
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Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts
Imperial College London staff will down tools tomorrow in a fight for a fair pay award, the University and College Union (UCU) confirmed today
www.ucu.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Day six going strong at the Jessop West picke, joined by today’s running picket! Sun’s out too so at least we’re not tooooo cold @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Day six going strong at the Jessop West picke, joined by today’s running picket! Sun’s out too so at least we’re not tooooo cold @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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The last safe day to vote is Wednesday 26 November.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if they’ve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if they’ve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The last safe day to vote is Wednesday 26 November.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if they’ve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
The ballot closes Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t voted, do it now.
If you have, talk to colleagues, ask if they’ve voted.
Post your ballot today.
We are the university.
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University of Sheffield Firth Court picket today! In solidarity with students and colleagues! @ucu.org.uk @ucuhallam.bsky.social #UCUstrike #saveHigherEducation #notoculturalvandalism #Sheffield @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
University of Sheffield Firth Court picket today! In solidarity with students and colleagues! @ucu.org.uk @ucuhallam.bsky.social #UCUstrike #saveHigherEducation #notoculturalvandalism #Sheffield @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Help save Modern Languages at UoN!
Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
savenottinghamlanguages
The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Help save Modern Languages at UoN!
Posted this 3 years ago. Extremely disappointing to see the employers are still at it. Shameful cuts and redundancies, pay erosion and casualisation of the academic workforce. Get your votes in!
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Posted this 3 years ago. Extremely disappointing to see the employers are still at it. Shameful cuts and redundancies, pay erosion and casualisation of the academic workforce. Get your votes in!
This is abhorrent.
Shoddy stuff from @sheffielduni.bsky.social management in the @sheffielducu.bsky.social dispute over compulsory redundancies, threatening to walk away from all negotiations if members don't sign away their right to strike until November next year. #StandUpToBullies #DignityAtWork
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is abhorrent.
Let's go HE! One last push 💪
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Let's go HE! One last push 💪
Vileness. Get ready for being dragged back to the 1950's... If you're not traditionally feminine presenting and wearing an ankle length floral dress you're not coming in 🤮
Encouraging the policing of public spaces based on appearance and gender stereotypes is no way for a human rights regulator to behave.
The EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice is a misogynist’s charter, and the government must reject it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The EHRC’s proposed Code of Practice is a misogynist’s charter, and the government must reject it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Transgender guidance dubbed ‘misogynist’s charter’
Places such as hospital wards, gyms and leisure centres will reportedly be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behavi...
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Vileness. Get ready for being dragged back to the 1950's... If you're not traditionally feminine presenting and wearing an ankle length floral dress you're not coming in 🤮
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After 3 successful days of strike action, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are back at work for a day before we go out again. We may be working today but are not mitigating our own actions! We have already brought management back to the negotiating table. Stay strong and we win! 💪
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
After 3 successful days of strike action, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are back at work for a day before we go out again. We may be working today but are not mitigating our own actions! We have already brought management back to the negotiating table. Stay strong and we win! 💪
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Cross-party support for the UCU Edinburgh rally this lunchtime @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #WeAreTheUniversity #Solidarity
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Cross-party support for the UCU Edinburgh rally this lunchtime @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #WeAreTheUniversity #Solidarity
The FE ballot is over but our HE comrades are still going. Keep sharing the message, keep pestering your workplace colleagues and union networks to get the vote out. Replacement ballots still available!
Don't let your pink envelope sit in your bag or on the table, get it in the post box! VOTE YES!
Don't let your pink envelope sit in your bag or on the table, get it in the post box! VOTE YES!
⌛️🗳️REMINDER that the deadline for requesting a replacement ballot is this Sunday 23 NOVEMBER 2025! yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form
This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.
yoursay.ucu.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The FE ballot is over but our HE comrades are still going. Keep sharing the message, keep pestering your workplace colleagues and union networks to get the vote out. Replacement ballots still available!
Don't let your pink envelope sit in your bag or on the table, get it in the post box! VOTE YES!
Don't let your pink envelope sit in your bag or on the table, get it in the post box! VOTE YES!
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90% voted YES.
32 colleges over the line.
17 colleges already won pay awards.
This is a huge organising win for our FE members.
College bosses must work with us, staff deserve a fair deal, especially when many are paid £7k–£9k less than in sixth forms.
Next steps announced next week.
32 colleges over the line.
17 colleges already won pay awards.
This is a huge organising win for our FE members.
College bosses must work with us, staff deserve a fair deal, especially when many are paid £7k–£9k less than in sixth forms.
Next steps announced next week.
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
90% voted YES.
32 colleges over the line.
17 colleges already won pay awards.
This is a huge organising win for our FE members.
College bosses must work with us, staff deserve a fair deal, especially when many are paid £7k–£9k less than in sixth forms.
Next steps announced next week.
32 colleges over the line.
17 colleges already won pay awards.
This is a huge organising win for our FE members.
College bosses must work with us, staff deserve a fair deal, especially when many are paid £7k–£9k less than in sixth forms.
Next steps announced next week.
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Over two decades ago, a Labour government repealed “Section 28” which aimed to prevent positive discussions about homosexuality and gay lives in schools. Now a Labour government pursues transphobia and erases trans and non-binary lives. Today’s political transphobia is basically recycled homophobia.
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
1/8🧵
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
1/8🧵
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Over two decades ago, a Labour government repealed “Section 28” which aimed to prevent positive discussions about homosexuality and gay lives in schools. Now a Labour government pursues transphobia and erases trans and non-binary lives. Today’s political transphobia is basically recycled homophobia.
An impressive 32 FE Branches over the line in the ballot. I know how incredibly hard everyone has worked to get the vote out. Now comes the work of supporting ALL the branches with what comes next. Whether they made it to 50% or not there is work to be done 💪🏼
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
An impressive 32 FE Branches over the line in the ballot. I know how incredibly hard everyone has worked to get the vote out. Now comes the work of supporting ALL the branches with what comes next. Whether they made it to 50% or not there is work to be done 💪🏼
Good luck in negotiations Nottingham 👊🏼
In response to our industrial action, the university proposed a resolution that removed the threat of compulsory redundancies for the next year and introduced a negotiation process over course closures. And at our branch meeting, we accepted this offer.
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Good luck in negotiations Nottingham 👊🏼
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Tomorrow I’m back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social over the university’s refusal to rule out redundancies and stop the neverending cycle of unjustified restructures. East Asian studies remains under explicit threat of job cuts, but I’d be there even if we weren’t. We stand together.
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Tomorrow I’m back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social over the university’s refusal to rule out redundancies and stop the neverending cycle of unjustified restructures. East Asian studies remains under explicit threat of job cuts, but I’d be there even if we weren’t. We stand together.
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JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Going home after a brilliant UCU women's conference. Amazing participation from delegates in the workshops and debates 🙌🏼 Thank you to our incredible committee for organising and facilitating the conference and for the hard work of UCU staff setting up and supporting.
#UCU
#UCUWomen
#equalities
#UCU
#UCUWomen
#equalities
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Going home after a brilliant UCU women's conference. Amazing participation from delegates in the workshops and debates 🙌🏼 Thank you to our incredible committee for organising and facilitating the conference and for the hard work of UCU staff setting up and supporting.
#UCU
#UCUWomen
#equalities
#UCU
#UCUWomen
#equalities
All set up ready for the UCU Women's Conference. Looking forward to welcoming you all.
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
All set up ready for the UCU Women's Conference. Looking forward to welcoming you all.
Ugh. Brutal course cuts and mass redundancies but sure pop that champagne! Vile, tone deaf and out of touch.
Hello from Edinburgh, where we’re about to kick off the 2025 #THEAwards and will be sharing updates here throughout the event. Tonight, the 21st annual “HE Oscars”, we’ll be handing out trophies in 21 categories. See the full shortlist: https://ow.ly/P0hi50XpUKN
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Ugh. Brutal course cuts and mass redundancies but sure pop that champagne! Vile, tone deaf and out of touch.
We must resist this with absolute fury. Effectively asking staff to choose between pay or pension is diabolical. If they they get away with it here it will happen everywhere. Everyone in the education sector needs to get behind this.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social skyrocketing and getting mobilised to fight this attack on pay and pensions @northumbriauni.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/14256
Strike ballot looms at Northumbria University over attack on pay & pensions
Staff at Northumbria University have taken steps towards a strike ballot over plans by the university to force staff from the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (...
www.ucu.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We must resist this with absolute fury. Effectively asking staff to choose between pay or pension is diabolical. If they they get away with it here it will happen everywhere. Everyone in the education sector needs to get behind this.