‘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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SOAS members secure victory against compulsory redundancies
Planned strike action saw management agree to return to talks and offer workers redeployment deal
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SOAS staff to strike against cuts
Support workers at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have voted overwhelmingly to take action to save jobs
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Winning a change of heart at the University of East Anglia
With COVID-19 affectedly higher education finances badly, reps at the University of East Anglia worked to ensure that lower-paid members didn’t suffer as a result
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UNISON calls for ‘sustainable and sufficient’ university funding
Call comes amid chaos caused by government handling of A-level results
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Napier staff to be balloted over planned redundancies
UNISON also calls on the Scottish government to ensure its fair work standards are applied at the Edinburgh university
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HE executive rejects employers’ proposed pay freeze
Executive members ‘angered, dismayed and disappointed’
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HE employers announce 2020 pay freeze proposal
UNISON and the joint higher education trade unions have expressed say they’re “extremely disappointed” at a proposal to freeze pay for higher education support staff
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UNISON demands extra government funding to save universities from crisis
‘A world without universities would be tragic. I just can’t comprehend it.’
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UNISON urges government to support universities properly
Support package announced yesterday by government doesn’t offer any new funds
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Government must not allow universities to fail during the coronavirus outbreak, warn unions
Higher education needs extra measures
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University agrees pay for zero-hours staff
Union welcomes move by City, University of London, to protect incomes of outsourced catering staff
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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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Oxford University signs up to living wage
Thousands of staff benefit – now UNISON urges colleges to follow suit
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Our members count, UNISON tells universities
Official statistics body to stop collecting data on support staff, making them invisible
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‘Every higher education worker should get the pay they deserve’
Pay, pensions, equality and climate dominate discussion at UNISON higher education conference
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Preparing for the future
‘We are the first and main line of defence,’ higher education conference hears
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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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Shoulder to shoulder
Students and staff have banded together in a solid display of solidarity at a demo which highlighted two separate disputes at the University of Liverpool today (December 3). Both Unite members, who…Read more…
UNISON sends solidarity message to UCU strikers
Lecturers start industrial action on campuses across UK
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