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University staff speak out about COVID-19 fears
‘It just feels like a ticking time bomb until there’s a big outbreak here. Since the students came back, it feels like I’m on the frontline’
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HE unions submit a ‘timely and serious’ pay claim for 2020/21
All staff deserve a pay rise that keeps up with the cost of living while catching up with 10 years of lost pay
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University staff map out the challenges ahead
Delegates gather to debate the issues at UNISON’s higher education conference
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University staff deserve fair pay, says Angela Rayner
Shadow education secretary sends message to UNISON members voting in ballot on pay
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Another university signs up to living wage
South Wales accreditation means all workers on campus, including those employed by contractors, will earn at least £9 an hour
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Union welcomes education funding call but expresses concerns
The words are fine, but action and government investment is needed to make Augar review recommendations work
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Nice pay if you can get it
University vice chancellors’ pay has hit the headlines after the report on the subject from the new Office for Students – so we decided to take a deeper look at the figures behind the headlines.
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UCL UNISON launches #BringThemIn campaign for outsourced workers
‘Our members deserve equality in terms and conditions’ declared union
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Tuition fees review ‘needs to support wider access’
UNISON calls for the abolition of fees and free higher education in response to Theresa May’s review
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UNISON welcomes Cambridge living wage move
University to seek formal accreditation from Living Wage Foundation – a move which UNSION says should be copied across all UK universities
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‘We will robustly defend members interests’ vows university branch
University of South Wales Group launches formal consultation on budget cuts, including possible job losses
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Universities urged to support EU staff
Higher education conference calls on employers to give practical support staff to 12,500 support staff dealing with uncertainty following Brexit vote
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‘We have to stand up for each other’ HE conference hears
“We have to be the ones who stand up for each other – that’s what trade unionism is about,” assistant general secretary Roger McKenzie told delegates at UNISON’s higher education in Bournemouth this…Read more…
Union urges universities to ‘get houses in order’ on race
Figures show Black workers to be under-represented in higher education workforce
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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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UNISON backs Scottish higher education reform bill
Bill proposing to give unions a seat on all university courts dye to receive third reading in Scottish Parliament
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Universities in the money?
UNISON calls on higher education employers to invest in staff after £1bn+ surplus unveiled for third year in a row
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We will back your struggle against these cuts, Prentis tells OU members
Open University staff could be balloted over plans to close seven regional offices and lose 500 jobs
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UNISON will not be gagged, higher education branches hear at seminar
Branch delegates gather to discuss strategic concerns of higher education workers, including the government Trade Union Bill
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