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UCU held a staff event during lunchtime, to which community groups affected by cuts at the college were invited. Pink and Blue fairy cakes were given out to everyone who signed the joint union’s petition.

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Southampton University UCU, UNISON and UNITE held stalls and a lively lunchtime rally on the green. They collected signatures and made up 200 placards to represent the number of admin posts currently threatened with redundancy at the university. Continue reading Lively lunchtime rally in Southampton

Manchester College union members held a ‘purple picnic’ on the grass outside the principal’s office to demonstrate their solidarity with colleagues across the education sector faced with losing their jobs and also to demonstrate their anger at the principal for his recent decision to derecognise UCU.

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Goldsmiths College UNISON, NUS and UCU used the day to highlight their campaign to save the college nursery following management’s decision to shut the facility from September 2010 leaving staff and students with no childcare provision and some term time only staff with almost immediate dismissal.

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Union members from the two universities in Bristol held a mass rally at the to institutions. A great turnout was followed by local media coverage in the Evening Post:

University staff protest over plan to cut education funding

STAFF at Bristol’s two universities have warned Chancellor George Osborne that further cuts to education funding [...]

Doncaster College union members held noisy protests throughout the day using UCU-customised vuvuzelas to express their anger at the cuts! Continue reading Vuvuzelas protest in Doncaster

University of Aberdeen UCU, UNISON and UNITE branches held a lively rally outside the university.

Continue reading Unions uniting up in Aberdeen

UPDATE: A further report just in:

In Liverpool the United for Education day was the occasion for a historic display of unity between unions in five of the City’s further and higher education institutions. Over one hundred members of UCU, Unite, and UNISON attended a lunchtime rally in the John Foster building at Liverpool [...]

Fantastic slideshow of images from the day’s action at the University of Leeds from Nick Efford.