Category: Campaigns
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HE members vote to accept pay offer
UNISON’s higher education service group executive has decided to accept the employer’s pay offer, after 72% of members voted to back it. The executive met on 30 June to consider the result of the branch consultative ballot on this year’s pay offer from the national employers’ organisation, the University and Colleges Employers’ Association.
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Higher Education Ballot Result
UNISON members working in higher education in England, Scotland and Wales have voted for industrial action to press their wage claim – but the turnout wasn’t enough to meet the threshold for strikes set out in the 2017 Trade Union Act. That act does not apply in Northern Ireland, and the union is still awaiting…
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RGU Announces £6m Cuts to Staff and Services
Members will by now be aware of the Principal’s announcement at RGU with regard to the financial situation at the University, and the start of a Voluntary Severance scheme to attempt to reach the stated required cost reduction of £6 million (£2 million non-pay costs, and £4 million staffing costs). The University has also stated…
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HE Employers Make Final Pay Offer
UNISON has received a "full and final" pay offer from higher education employers, which the union's higher education service group executive will discuss on Monday 18 May. The offer for 2015-16 follows pay talks between the employers and joint higher ed unions, and consists of: a 1% increase from 1 August for all staff covered…
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HE unions submit 2015-16 pay claim
Higher education unions have submitted a joint pay claim for 2015-16 to the national employers' organisation, the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). The claim has been submitted by UNISON, UCU, Unite, GMB and EiS and covers two main areas – pay and pay-related equality matters – which the unions want to negotiate concurrently. The…