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The sun shone down on Unite members as they started a 24-hour strike at three universities across Scotland today (10 April) over an imposed real terms pay cut. Staff joined pickets and rallies at the gates of some of the country’s biggest education institutions, with strike action involving 1,000 Unite members at Glasgow, Strathclyde and […]
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The job cuts in Southend are symptomatic of a “growing financial crisis across universities”
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The job cuts in Southend are symptomatic of a “growing financial crisis across universities”
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Debates at UNISON’s 2026 higher education conference included threats to jobs, chronic underpay and workplace injustice
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Debates at UNISON’s 2026 higher education conference included threats to jobs, chronic underpay and workplace injustice
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‘While senior executive pay gets more obscene by the day, our lowest-paid staff struggle to get to the end of the month and this is not acceptable’
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‘While senior executive pay gets more obscene by the day, our lowest-paid staff struggle to get to the end of the month and this is not acceptable’
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‘What is needed is a sustainable, long-term funding model based on free education, one that values higher education not just for economic output’
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‘What is needed is a sustainable, long-term funding model based on free education, one that values higher education not just for economic output’
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“Vote now in HE Ballot” is the message from Unite to members in universities across the country, as a new Unite survey highlights issues facing technicians in the sector. Time is running out for trade union members in Higher Education to cast their vote in a strike ballot aimed at improving a below inflation pay […]
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Unite members in universities across the country have been busy getting out the vote for strike action as the campaign to improve staff pay gathers steam. Thousands of staff across 47 of the UK’s higher education institutions are currently being balloted for strike action after being offered an appalling real-terms pay cut by their employers. […]
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University staff are the backbone of campus life, keeping institutions running.
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University staff are the backbone of campus life, keeping institutions running.
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UNISON hosted a drop-in lobby for our Fund Our Future campaign
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UNISON hosted a drop-in lobby for our Fund Our Future campaign
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Delegates agree higher education sector needs a ‘new start’
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Delegates agree higher education sector needs a ‘new start’
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Delegates met in Milton Keynes to tackle a wide-ranging agenda
The article Higher education conference hears of ‘systemic under funding’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Delegates met in Milton Keynes to tackle a wide-ranging agenda
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NHS workers at four London NHS Trusts will take strike action next month in a dispute over safe staffing and pay. The workers, who are members of Unite are employed at Barts Health NHS Trust, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust, East London Foundation Trust and Guys and St Thomas’. Over 2,800 workers will be involved […]
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