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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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 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…
Figures show Black workers to be under-represented in higher education workforce
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Stoke by-election candidate says his union experience has informed his campaign
The article UNISON’s Gareth Snell in final stages of high profile election first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
“My only priority is what matters to you, the members, not the demands of any political party or other outside group.
If it matters to you, it should matter to your union”.
Dan Beard Higher Education General Seat. Read more…
Cleaners set to strike as private employer plans to axe hours and jobs
The article Academics back strike by King’s College cleaners first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Unite community members from Durham University held a festive campus demonstration on Tuesday (November 13), to protest against accommodation costs and price increases that are leaving poorer…Read more…
‘I started my working life on 26 August 1982 and joined our union the same day’
The article Mark White OBE – member’s services to education recognised first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
UNISON’s Higher Education Service Group Executive will meet on the afternoon of Tuesday 20 September 2016 to discuss the results and next steps.
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We may have a different Prime Minister but staff working in Higher Education face the same declining pay, the same tough working conditions and the same attacks on the sector that they faced under…Read more…
Higher education members will be voting over strike action as a result of a 1.1% pay offer for the majority of staff.
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UNISON launches ‘salary loss calculator’ for UK university staff ahead of September’s industrial action ballot
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If this Tory government really cared about making our country fairer and more prosperous then decent pay for education workers would be one of their top priorities.
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UNISON believes that no employee in higher education should be paid less than the Living Wage
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NI Executive must take control of funding provided for higher education to ensure working-class children are not excluded, Unite has argued. Sean Smyth, Unite regional officer with…Read more…
UNISON has written to MPs to express deep concern about the Higher Education and Research Bill, which is having its second reading in Parliament today.
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Summer ballot will see members asked to vote for strike to improve university employers’ 1.1% offer
The article HE members to be balloted on action over pay first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Download the summary results of this spring’s elections to the seven service group executives: local government, health, community, police and justice, higher education, energy, and water,…Read more…
Service group executive recommends industrial action after employer fails to improve on 1.1% for most staff
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A Conservative Party at war with itself, already out of ideas little over a year on from election day and a Prime Minister so afraid of his own shadow that he’s abandoned any semblance of a serious…Read more…