College employers urged to use negotiations on 25 August to agee pay fairness or strikes will mark the start of new academic year
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How much have higher education workers lost?
UNISON launches ‘salary loss calculator’ for UK university staff ahead of September’s industrial action ballot
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HE members to be balloted on action over pay
Summer ballot will see members asked to vote for strike to improve university employers’ 1.1% offer
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UNISON sends solidarity to striking NUT members in England
Union urges members to support legal protests and rallies organised by the NUT
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Education dominates local government conference on final afternoon
Debates see delegates back a range of measures on pay, academies, funding and much more
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UNISON pledges campaign for an end to school workers’ term-time contracts
‘We all live 12 months of the year’ and need to paid for 12 months, local government conference delegates hear
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Derby school support staff strike against pay cuts
Schools affected across the city as 500 protest outside Council House over imposed changes to contracts
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SGE election results
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NEC by-election result
Liz Baptiste elected to the higher education general seat on the union’s national executive council
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UNISON welcomes government’s academies climbdown
Commenting on the news today (Friday) that the government has abandoned its plans to force all maintained schools still linked to local authorities to become academies, UNISON head of education Jon…Read more…
Academy chain job cuts are a lesson in how not to manage schools, says UNISON
Commenting on the decision today (Thursday) by the Academies Transformation Trust (ATT) to announce jobs cuts and a major restructuring across its secondary and primary schools in the East and West…Read more…
University spend on agency staff soars to £200m
‘Casualisation is short sighted, bad for staff and bad for students’ says UNISON, as it reveals growing scale of the problem
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Schools face exodus of support staff over workload stress, says UNISON survey
More than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their workloads, according to a new survey published today…Read more…
UNISON to consider national employer’s final pay offer 2016/17 for higher education
Employers also offer further joint work on gender pay and casualisation
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Further education workers demand a decent pay rise
Joint unions submit claim for £1 an hour pay rise and the living wage as a minimum in England
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UNISON to accept local government pay offer
Following a meeting of local government representatives from across UNISON, the union has decided to accept the pay offer from the employers
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Liverpool John Moores University agrees to pay living wage
John Moores joins ‘growing number’ of universities gaining accreditation as living wage employers
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Middlesex University branch wins living wage commitment
Outsourced cleaners ‘so happy’ as six-month campaign pays off with promise of pay rise
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Local government executive to explore help for school support staff
Government plans to force all schools to become academies are just one issue facing support staff
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Hundreds of Co Durham teaching assistants protest at pay cut plans
County council’s plans could see vital school staff lose £1,000 to £5,000 a year
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