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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Feb 26
🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

🔥 Two week ballot window
🔥 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
uniteucu.bsky.social
🚨 FIFTH consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

🔥 Two week ballot window
🔥 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
February 26, 2026 at 7:06 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Sending massive solidarity to Ryan and everyone at @uniteitf.bsky.social and elsewhere whose employers are undermining their own core values.
uniteitf.bsky.social ITF Staff Union @uniteitf.bsky.social · Feb 24
Union rep. New parent. Migrant worker.

Ryan is one of two union reps abruptly sacked by @itfglobalunion.bsky.social management.

❌ Fired my management decree, contrary to internal procedures

❌ Denied the right to work his notice period, accelerating removal from the country
February 24, 2026 at 11:40 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
With our current mandate ending, today sees the end of our current strike action.

Our new ballot over TU victimisation closes on Wednesday.

Our Safety Officer remains under threat and our employer has made no real effort to find a resolution.

We don’t want to have to strike again.

#HandsOffMarie
February 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Over 100 attendees at our rally last night and another solid picket at the @ucu.org.uk North West Regional Office today ✊🪧

#HandsOffMarie
#UniteAgainstVictimisation
Picket line outside UCU’s Manchester office. Protesting outside UCU’s Manchester office. #HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
February 19, 2026 at 7:09 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
One of the sacked reps from @uniteitf.bsky.social spoke at our victimisation strike rally yesterday. What’s happening to them is another stark example of the union movement’s ‘leadership’ losing its way.

Please join us in sending full solidarity & give them a follow.

#UniteAgainstVictimisation
uniteitf.bsky.social ITF Staff Union @uniteitf.bsky.social · Feb 19
After abruptly sacking two union reps, @itfglobalunion.bsky.social management are now trying to tear up the existing CBA with staff.

Under the "new CBA" written by management, important protections would be removed or put in non-binding policies.
February 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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📣 TONIGHT: Unite UCU TU Victimisation Strike Rally

⏰ Weds 18 February @ 7pm

📍 In-person: Mechanics’ Institute, Manchester

💻 Register now to join online: unitetheunion-org.zoom.us/j/9198478678...

Everyone welcome

✊✊✊
Photo of Marie with text ‘Hands off Marie! Stop trade union victimisation’
February 18, 2026 at 10:09 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
📣 Unite UCU TU Victimisation Strike Rally

⏰ Weds 18 February @ 7pm

📍 In-person: Mechanics’ Institute, Manchester

💻 Online access: unitetheunion-org.zoom.us/j/9198478678...

Everyone welcome

✊✊✊
Photo of Marie with text ‘Hands off Marie! Stop trade union victimisation’
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
This is what it looks like when you refuse to tolerate trade union victimisation: voting YES and YES to defend a colleague.

#HandsOffMarie
#UniteAgainstVictimisation
Ballot paper with an X in both ‘Yes’ boxes to vote for strike action and ASOS. Our branch chair posting his ballot paper Ballot paper with an X in both ‘Yes’ boxes to vote for strike action and ASOS.
February 14, 2026 at 10:59 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Not only are we on strike to demand @ucu.org.uk stop its year-long campaign of trade union victimisation, but we also vote again to make clear we are taking a stand.

The TU movement is united on one matter: you do not act unlawfully to one of our own.

#HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
February 13, 2026 at 10:20 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Our Wales colleagues showing what solidarity looks like.

#HandsOffMarie
#UniteAgainstVictimisation
Illustration of placards with the Welsh ‘Ar Streic Heddiw’
February 12, 2026 at 11:19 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Heading to the strike rally at noon outside @ucu.org.uk head office.

#HandsOffMarie #UniteAgainstVictimisation
Photo of Marie, Unite H&S officer, with the words ‘on strike against victimisation’
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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#HandsOffMarie

www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
Unite national officer Andy Murray said: "Our members will not tolerate this approach from UCU management and with no resolution in sight feel they have no choice but to show their anger on the picket line. We urge UCU to come back to the negotiating table and make the concessions necessary to end this dispute."
February 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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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
February 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Unite against TU Victimisation

@Unitetheunion.bsky.social doesn't tolerate the victimisation of its reps by employers. Today our members in the North West are showing what solidarity looks like.

It's time UCU ended the victimisation of Marie, our Health & Safety Officer.

#Strike #HandsOffMarie
Unite members in the north west on a picket line while taking strike action to defend Marie, their H&S rep, who is being subject to trade union victimisation by our employer.
February 9, 2026 at 10:50 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
📣 Hands off Marie!

Tell @drjogrady.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep.

✍️ [email protected]

#HandsOffMarie

#UniteTheUnion @unitetheunion.bsky.social
Photo of Marie, Unite UCU's health and safety rep, who is being victimised by her trade union employer
January 30, 2026 at 2:15 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Regrettably our members will be commencing strike action from 9 February over the victimisation of our Health and Safety Officer.

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Headline: 'Unite staff to strike over union victimisation' with the quote 'Across the trade union movement there is one thing we are all united on: that we do not act unlawfully towards our own. This issue will now bring together all voices across our movement. The victimisation of our Health and Safety rep and the threat to their job and livelihood must end immediately."
January 28, 2026 at 3:47 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
News.

Solidarity comrades.

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Sad farewells
Shocked and saddened We have to report that we were shocked and saddened to receive an all-staff email from our employer this week which announced the departure, among others, of three amazing, exp…
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December 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Solidarity to @uniteneu.bsky.social and TSSA staff belonging to @gmblondonregion.bsky.social - both striking today over bullying and intimidation in their workplace.

Too many of today’s union leaders are displaying a level of hypocrisy which is doing severe damage to the entire movement.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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gmblondonregion.bsky.social
Out on the picket line with our striking TSSA Union members this morning. We appreciate the solidarity from TSSA members and activists.✊

Bullying and intimidation have no place in any workplace. It’s time for TSSA’s executive leadership to clean up its act.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Following a report on @drjogrady.bsky.social's NEC update, we want to clarify that all dispute issues remain unresolved:
❌ trade union victimisation
❌ failure to negotiate a hybrid working policy
❌ failure to adequately deal with safety issues
❌ breach of recognition agreement & other policies.
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
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.
Photo showing an article from the latest Private Eye on the Unite dispute which exposes UCU management's hypocrisy, in particular highlighting a quote from an SMT member that strongly suggests our action short of a strike (ie, continue doing your job but office attendance remains voluntary as it has done over the last five years) is somehow irresponsible.
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
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 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
uniteucu.bsky.social
We wondered last week whether @drjogrady.bsky.social would listen to @ucu.org.uk members, agree to unconditional talks & withdraw the threat of deductions for taking ASOS.

So we asked her. She didn’t reply herself, but SMT’s response, regrettably, was “no”.

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Branch update
Fifty UCU branches join calls for unconditional talks After over 50 UCU branches signed up to a statement calling on SMT and the General Secretary to meet with Unite for unconditional talks, branch…
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October 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Fifty branches, representing over 36% of UCU members, have now called for @drjogrady.bsky.social to enter unconditional negotiations & remove the threat of punitive deductions against staff.

Unite's repeated requests for such talks have had no response. Will she now listen to @ucu.org.uk members?
We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to: • Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions. • Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS - this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action. Signed, 25, no 37, no 46, no 50 UCU branch committees (and still counting)
October 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
uniteucu.bsky.social
Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how.

How would you react?

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Screenshot of email from UCU management which reads: ASOS Attendance Form - New Weekly Survey Starting Monday 22 September, all staff will receive an email with a link to the new ASOS attendance form. This short weekly survey is mandatory for all staff, whether you were on ASOS or not. Please make sure to complete it each week, failure to do so may result in pay deductions. The cut off each week will be Friday at 5pm.
September 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM