Bridget Phillipson says we need inspiring teachers.
We agree!
How about we start with fair pay and manageable workloads?
Vote ✅ YES in the FE ballot. ✊
#NewDealForFE
We agree!
How about we start with fair pay and manageable workloads?
Vote ✅ YES in the FE ballot. ✊
#NewDealForFE
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Bridget Phillipson says we need inspiring teachers.
We agree!
How about we start with fair pay and manageable workloads?
Vote ✅ YES in the FE ballot. ✊
#NewDealForFE
We agree!
How about we start with fair pay and manageable workloads?
Vote ✅ YES in the FE ballot. ✊
#NewDealForFE
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
Ballots open on the 13th!
Vote YES for fair pay, safe workloads and binding national agreements.
This is our chance to win.
#VoteYes #NewDealForFE
October 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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
Ballots open on the 13th!
Vote YES for fair pay, safe workloads and binding national agreements.
This is our chance to win.
#VoteYes #NewDealForFE
"FE is coming together because we want better pay and better conditions. Together, we are stronger." Our member, Tanya Manyuira from Sandwell College.
Vote YES in the e-ballot by 20 June and help shape the future of further education.
#NewDealForFE #UCU
Vote YES in the e-ballot by 20 June and help shape the future of further education.
#NewDealForFE #UCU
May 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"FE is coming together because we want better pay and better conditions. Together, we are stronger." Our member, Tanya Manyuira from Sandwell College.
Vote YES in the e-ballot by 20 June and help shape the future of further education.
#NewDealForFE #UCU
Vote YES in the e-ballot by 20 June and help shape the future of further education.
#NewDealForFE #UCU
We’re submitting our petition for binding national bargaining on 7 March 👏
This is your chance to tell employers & the govt that we need a #NewDealforFE
Sign the petition now and demand:
👉 manageable workloads
👉 pay parity with schoolteachers
🔗 newdealforfe.org.uk
This is your chance to tell employers & the govt that we need a #NewDealforFE
Sign the petition now and demand:
👉 manageable workloads
👉 pay parity with schoolteachers
🔗 newdealforfe.org.uk
March 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We’re submitting our petition for binding national bargaining on 7 March 👏
This is your chance to tell employers & the govt that we need a #NewDealforFE
Sign the petition now and demand:
👉 manageable workloads
👉 pay parity with schoolteachers
🔗 newdealforfe.org.uk
This is your chance to tell employers & the govt that we need a #NewDealforFE
Sign the petition now and demand:
👉 manageable workloads
👉 pay parity with schoolteachers
🔗 newdealforfe.org.uk
Solidarity to UCU members in FE as they start three days of action #NewDealForFE #UCU
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Solidarity to UCU members in FE as they start three days of action #NewDealForFE #UCU
We've now handed in our #NewDealforFE petition 🔥
Nearly 6000 signatures demanding:
👉 pay parity with school teachers
👉 binding national bargaining
👉 action on workloads
It's time for the Association of Colleges to work with us towards a new settlement for further education.
Nearly 6000 signatures demanding:
👉 pay parity with school teachers
👉 binding national bargaining
👉 action on workloads
It's time for the Association of Colleges to work with us towards a new settlement for further education.
March 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We've now handed in our #NewDealforFE petition 🔥
Nearly 6000 signatures demanding:
👉 pay parity with school teachers
👉 binding national bargaining
👉 action on workloads
It's time for the Association of Colleges to work with us towards a new settlement for further education.
Nearly 6000 signatures demanding:
👉 pay parity with school teachers
👉 binding national bargaining
👉 action on workloads
It's time for the Association of Colleges to work with us towards a new settlement for further education.
Our members with our #NewDealforFE petition 👏
Nearly 6000 signatures calling for binding national bargaining in FE ✒️
An incredible show of solidarity from Hopwood Hall College ✊
Nearly 6000 signatures calling for binding national bargaining in FE ✒️
An incredible show of solidarity from Hopwood Hall College ✊
March 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our members with our #NewDealforFE petition 👏
Nearly 6000 signatures calling for binding national bargaining in FE ✒️
An incredible show of solidarity from Hopwood Hall College ✊
Nearly 6000 signatures calling for binding national bargaining in FE ✒️
An incredible show of solidarity from Hopwood Hall College ✊
Excellent strike today at CCC - our members demand fair pay, manageable workloads and national binding bargaining. #UCU #NewDealForFE
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Excellent strike today at CCC - our members demand fair pay, manageable workloads and national binding bargaining. #UCU #NewDealForFE
New Deal for FE
🗳️ 5 days to go. Have you voted YES?
✅ Pay
✅ Workload
✅ Respect
📅 Vote by Friday 20 June
Check your inbox. Vote YES.
#NewDealForFE #VoteYES #ucu
🗳️ 5 days to go. Have you voted YES?
✅ Pay
✅ Workload
✅ Respect
📅 Vote by Friday 20 June
Check your inbox. Vote YES.
#NewDealForFE #VoteYES #ucu
June 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
New Deal for FE
🗳️ 5 days to go. Have you voted YES?
✅ Pay
✅ Workload
✅ Respect
📅 Vote by Friday 20 June
Check your inbox. Vote YES.
#NewDealForFE #VoteYES #ucu
🗳️ 5 days to go. Have you voted YES?
✅ Pay
✅ Workload
✅ Respect
📅 Vote by Friday 20 June
Check your inbox. Vote YES.
#NewDealForFE #VoteYES #ucu
Our UCU CCC delegation to the UCU rally for FE strikers - Solidarity! #UCU #NewDealForFE
January 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Our UCU CCC delegation to the UCU rally for FE strikers - Solidarity! #UCU #NewDealForFE
If the govt are serious about investing in a skills agenda they must support further education not cut budgets.
We need a #NewDealforFE.
We need a #NewDealforFE.
Cutting FE college funding is not how you tackle the skills shortage
Also in this week’s newsletter, a glimmer of hope for the higher education sector
www.ft.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If the govt are serious about investing in a skills agenda they must support further education not cut budgets.
We need a #NewDealforFE.
We need a #NewDealforFE.
At a time when our society sees so much division, we need our colleges more than ever.
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
At a time when our society sees so much division, we need our colleges more than ever.
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
Yet FE funding has fallen by 60%, and staff earn less now than they did 20 years ago.
Vote YES for fair pay and to keep the colleges that hold our communities together.
#NewDealForFE
Solidarity with all @ucu.org.uk FE strikers this week 📢
🗓️14-16 January 2026
📍Find and support your nearest picket: bit.ly/FEPickets
1/3 @drjogrady.bsky.social
#StrikeMap #NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike #Education #FurtherEducation
🗓️14-16 January 2026
📍Find and support your nearest picket: bit.ly/FEPickets
1/3 @drjogrady.bsky.social
#StrikeMap #NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike #Education #FurtherEducation
January 12, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Solidarity with all @ucu.org.uk FE strikers this week 📢
🗓️14-16 January 2026
📍Find and support your nearest picket: bit.ly/FEPickets
1/3 @drjogrady.bsky.social
#StrikeMap #NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike #Education #FurtherEducation
🗓️14-16 January 2026
📍Find and support your nearest picket: bit.ly/FEPickets
1/3 @drjogrady.bsky.social
#StrikeMap #NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike #Education #FurtherEducation
⏰ The 13th is the last safe day to vote!
Hear from our FE member on why you must vote YES and why your voice matters now more than ever.
#VoteYES #NewDealForFE
Hear from our FE member on why you must vote YES and why your voice matters now more than ever.
#VoteYES #NewDealForFE
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
⏰ The 13th is the last safe day to vote!
Hear from our FE member on why you must vote YES and why your voice matters now more than ever.
#VoteYES #NewDealForFE
Hear from our FE member on why you must vote YES and why your voice matters now more than ever.
#VoteYES #NewDealForFE
Another blow to adult & community education in @feweek.bsky.social report that budgets set to be cut ❌
ACE transforms lives delivering vital skills & opportunities that society needs.
We need a #NewDealforFE ✊
Read our response 👇
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1390...
ACE transforms lives delivering vital skills & opportunities that society needs.
We need a #NewDealforFE ✊
Read our response 👇
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1390...
Threat to cut adult education funding "an act of self-sabotage" that flies in face of Labour's missions, says UCU
www.ucu.org.uk
February 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Another blow to adult & community education in @feweek.bsky.social report that budgets set to be cut ❌
ACE transforms lives delivering vital skills & opportunities that society needs.
We need a #NewDealforFE ✊
Read our response 👇
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1390...
ACE transforms lives delivering vital skills & opportunities that society needs.
We need a #NewDealforFE ✊
Read our response 👇
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1390...
🗳 From 13 Oct, members in around 100 FE branches will be balloted for industrial action.
The AoC’s 4% offer fails to fix low pay, unmanageable workloads or broken bargaining.
VOTE YES for a #NewDealForFE 💪
✅ Fair pay
✅ Manageable workloads
✅ Binding national bargaining
The AoC’s 4% offer fails to fix low pay, unmanageable workloads or broken bargaining.
VOTE YES for a #NewDealForFE 💪
✅ Fair pay
✅ Manageable workloads
✅ Binding national bargaining
October 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🗳 From 13 Oct, members in around 100 FE branches will be balloted for industrial action.
The AoC’s 4% offer fails to fix low pay, unmanageable workloads or broken bargaining.
VOTE YES for a #NewDealForFE 💪
✅ Fair pay
✅ Manageable workloads
✅ Binding national bargaining
The AoC’s 4% offer fails to fix low pay, unmanageable workloads or broken bargaining.
VOTE YES for a #NewDealForFE 💪
✅ Fair pay
✅ Manageable workloads
✅ Binding national bargaining
🚨IT'S A WIN: 7% pay award at Runshaw College‼️
Well done to every member who voted to strike & forced management to make a decent offer✊
Time for other colleges to follow suit & pay up. If they refuse, strikes are set for the New Year❗️
#NewDealForFE
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Well done to every member who voted to strike & forced management to make a decent offer✊
Time for other colleges to follow suit & pay up. If they refuse, strikes are set for the New Year❗️
#NewDealForFE
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Strikes off at Runshaw College as staff win 7% pay award
Staff at Runshaw College in Leyland have overwhelmingly voted to accept a pay offer of 7% and pull out of the England wide college strike action.
www.ucu.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚨IT'S A WIN: 7% pay award at Runshaw College‼️
Well done to every member who voted to strike & forced management to make a decent offer✊
Time for other colleges to follow suit & pay up. If they refuse, strikes are set for the New Year❗️
#NewDealForFE
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
Well done to every member who voted to strike & forced management to make a decent offer✊
Time for other colleges to follow suit & pay up. If they refuse, strikes are set for the New Year❗️
#NewDealForFE
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...
🚨NEW: England wide strike action to hit 33 colleges
Our members will down tools for 3 days in January in a fight for pay unless we get decent offers.
Time for management to start negotiating!
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
#NewDealForFE
Our members will down tools for 3 days in January in a fight for pay unless we get decent offers.
Time for management to start negotiating!
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
#NewDealForFE
England wide strike action to hit 33 colleges in January over fight for fair pay
Staff at 33 colleges across England are set to down tools for three days in January over low pay and poor working conditions.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🚨NEW: England wide strike action to hit 33 colleges
Our members will down tools for 3 days in January in a fight for pay unless we get decent offers.
Time for management to start negotiating!
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
#NewDealForFE
Our members will down tools for 3 days in January in a fight for pay unless we get decent offers.
Time for management to start negotiating!
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
#NewDealForFE
🚩 We’re out in force and it’s working.
College staff are on strike across England today, and college leaders can and are coming to the table.
🔁 Repost. Get down there. Show your support.
Let’s show them the strength of solidarity. ✊
#FEstrikes #NewDealForFE
College staff are on strike across England today, and college leaders can and are coming to the table.
🔁 Repost. Get down there. Show your support.
Let’s show them the strength of solidarity. ✊
#FEstrikes #NewDealForFE
January 15, 2026 at 10:46 AM
🚩 We’re out in force and it’s working.
College staff are on strike across England today, and college leaders can and are coming to the table.
🔁 Repost. Get down there. Show your support.
Let’s show them the strength of solidarity. ✊
#FEstrikes #NewDealForFE
College staff are on strike across England today, and college leaders can and are coming to the table.
🔁 Repost. Get down there. Show your support.
Let’s show them the strength of solidarity. ✊
#FEstrikes #NewDealForFE
📮✉️ Those pink envelopes are landing!
Bradford’s already voting, are you?
You deserve fair pay and fair workloads.
🗳️ #VoteYES for a #NewDealForFE
Bradford’s already voting, are you?
You deserve fair pay and fair workloads.
🗳️ #VoteYES for a #NewDealForFE
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
📮✉️ Those pink envelopes are landing!
Bradford’s already voting, are you?
You deserve fair pay and fair workloads.
🗳️ #VoteYES for a #NewDealForFE
Bradford’s already voting, are you?
You deserve fair pay and fair workloads.
🗳️ #VoteYES for a #NewDealForFE
⏰ Just 1 day left to have your say!
We’re standing together for a fair deal for every college with binding, funded national bargaining that protects pay and conditions across England.
Make it count. Vote YES before the deadline!
#VoteYES #NewDealForFE
We’re standing together for a fair deal for every college with binding, funded national bargaining that protects pay and conditions across England.
Make it count. Vote YES before the deadline!
#VoteYES #NewDealForFE
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
⏰ Just 1 day left to have your say!
We’re standing together for a fair deal for every college with binding, funded national bargaining that protects pay and conditions across England.
Make it count. Vote YES before the deadline!
#VoteYES #NewDealForFE
We’re standing together for a fair deal for every college with binding, funded national bargaining that protects pay and conditions across England.
Make it count. Vote YES before the deadline!
#VoteYES #NewDealForFE
Massive props to @ucu.org.uk FE branches in England, 32 of which have got over the line in nationally-coordinated industrial action ballots ! Another 17 had already struck local deals. A #newdealforFE staff is well past due! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
Staff at 32 colleges vote to strike over low pay
UCU called on college bosses to begin negotiating after its members voted to strike over low pay and poor working conditions.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Massive props to @ucu.org.uk FE branches in England, 32 of which have got over the line in nationally-coordinated industrial action ballots ! Another 17 had already struck local deals. A #newdealforFE staff is well past due! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
Our colleagues at #LboroCollege are going on strike over pay and workload. Join their pickets at their Epinal Way entrance (LE11 3BT) on Wed, Thurs & Friday mornings this week, from 8am to 10am, to show your support and solidarity.
#NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike
@landdtuc.bsky.social
#NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike
@landdtuc.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Our colleagues at #LboroCollege are going on strike over pay and workload. Join their pickets at their Epinal Way entrance (LE11 3BT) on Wed, Thurs & Friday mornings this week, from 8am to 10am, to show your support and solidarity.
#NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike
@landdtuc.bsky.social
#NewDealForFE #UCU #UCUStrike #FEstrike
@landdtuc.bsky.social
Latest reports on young people not in work or education should be a warning for the govt.
If the govt are serious about a decade of renewal & economic growth they must invest in adult and further education not cut budgets.
We need a #NewDealforFE
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If the govt are serious about a decade of renewal & economic growth they must invest in adult and further education not cut budgets.
We need a #NewDealforFE
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Number of young people not in work or education hits 11-year high
The latest figure of 987,000 16-24-year-olds not in work, education or training has risen by 110,000 in a year.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Latest reports on young people not in work or education should be a warning for the govt.
If the govt are serious about a decade of renewal & economic growth they must invest in adult and further education not cut budgets.
We need a #NewDealforFE
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If the govt are serious about a decade of renewal & economic growth they must invest in adult and further education not cut budgets.
We need a #NewDealforFE
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shocking story! We need to intensify our collective defence of academic freedom @ucu.org.uk
Huge solidarity to Prof. Laura Murphy and to Sheffield Hallam UCU
Post your ballot, support FE and HE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
#NewDealForFe
Huge solidarity to Prof. Laura Murphy and to Sheffield Hallam UCU
Post your ballot, support FE and HE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
#NewDealForFe
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Shocking story! We need to intensify our collective defence of academic freedom @ucu.org.uk
Huge solidarity to Prof. Laura Murphy and to Sheffield Hallam UCU
Post your ballot, support FE and HE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
#NewDealForFe
Huge solidarity to Prof. Laura Murphy and to Sheffield Hallam UCU
Post your ballot, support FE and HE!
#WeAreTheUniversity
#NewDealForFe