I'm on #strike today.

As an early career researcher on a fixed term contract, I understand why some colleagues might make a different choice, feeling that a lost day of work hurts their career personally more than it makes a statement to the university.

I think that's a bit backwards, though--when we stand together and make genuine sacrifices, that signals to our employers just now serious we are.

And don't you hope your colleagues at the next university you work at are fighting to improve conditions there as well?

#HigherEducation and #research is under attack in the UK (not to mention the US and elsewhere), and the only way we persuade governments and (certain) administrators who keep trying to squeeze more blood from the stone is to leverage the right to withdraw our labor to say #EnoughIsEnough.

We need real terms pay to stop falling. We need the same for our friends in the healthcare & rail sectors. We need the same for everyone.

#UCUstrike #EISstrike #UnitedWeStand #UKpol #UKstrikes #solidarity

Solidarity from the Falkirk EIS picket line.

Our teachers do inspiring and important work, they deserve better pay.

#PayAttention #EISstrike

Solidarity with teachers in Edinburgh striking today (and across Scotland on other days). #PayAttention #EISstrike #Teacherstrike

https://www.eis.org.uk/campaigns/payattention

Lots kids on the pickets today because their teachers are striking for fair pay too. Every school in the city is completely closed.

Me and the six-year-old made a "TAX BILLIONAIRES" sign. Her verict of the front line: really great snacks. Solidarity 😅

#ucuRISING #EISstrike

From UCUAberdeen:

Lots of support from passing drivers tooting their horns at teachers' picket line on Carmunnock Road this morning.

#EISStrike #TeacherStrike #UnionsWork #ScotlandStrikes