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…
Mark White OBE – member’s services to education recognised
‘I started my working life on 26 August 1982 and joined our union the same day’
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Higher ed executive decides against industrial action in pay campaign
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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Higher Education – time for the sector to fight back
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 vote on strike action over pay
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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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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Our education system is under sustained attack from Theresa May’s government
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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Higher Education members urged to strike for better pay
UNISON believes that no employee in higher education should be paid less than the Living Wage
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No justification
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…
The Higher Education and Research Bill will inhibit the life chances of a generation
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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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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SGE election results
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…
Higher education members to be consulted on ‘meagre’ pay offer
Service group executive recommends industrial action after employer fails to improve on 1.1% for most staff
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Queen’s Speech: A failure to tackle the real problems Britain faces
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…
Higher education pay offer rejected
UNISON calls on employers to begin dispute resolution procedure after offering a ‘pittance’ to staff
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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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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 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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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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