“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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‘What are the funding implications?’ UNISON asks of Diamond review
Union emphasises the need for higher education to be accessible to young people from ‘deprived communities’
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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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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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Middlesex University branch wins living wage commitment
Outsourced cleaners ‘so happy’ as six-month campaign pays off with promise of pay rise
The article Middlesex University branch wins living wage commitment first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
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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Higher ed conference backs campaign to keep NHS bursaries
Higher education delegates pledge to lobby for a reversal of Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to scrap bursary
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UNISON launches higher education pay campaign
Higher education conference backs call for 5% or £1,000 pay rise
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Higher ed workers vow to campaign against TU Bill
UNISON higher education conference sets out campaign to defeat bill and protect trade union rights and reps
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University workers still not ‘all in it together’
UNISON condemns growing pay gap in higher education as new port shows tht senior managers’ pay grew by 3% last year
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University workers still not ‘all in it together’
UNISON condemns growing pay gap in higher education as new port shows tht senior managers’ pay grew by 3% last year
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UNISON calls for Robert Gordon University to remove Donald Trump’s honorary degree
Date: Wednesday 9 December 2015
UNISON members working at Robert Gordon University have written to the Principal, Professor Prondzynski, calling on him to remove Donald Trump’s honorary degree because he is reported to have called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" UNISON believes this to be unacceptable. Colin Jones, Robert Gordon UNISON steward said: “Read more…
ICT should focus on providing better services not cuts, says UNISON report
Date: Monday 30 November
2015
A UNISON Scotland report Disconnected,
published today, 30 November 2015, claims that ICT services should focus
on better services. The report highlights that ICT systems are all too
often seen as a way of providing cheaper rather than improved public
services.
This UNISON report is qualitative research ofRead more…
Excellence!
WAY TO GO! DUE soon to have more time for his grandchildren, Steven Jefferys can bow out with pride in his department’s work.
ALMOST two years ago we were supporting staff at the London…Read more…
All Souls to Austerity, or ‘Gilded Age’ for Some?
IT might be Christmassy, if it had some decorations. But if it looks cold in this picture, now its worse -the lights are off, and the building’s up for sale.
NO, this isn’t the Pottins family…Read more…
Cops on the Corporate Campus
STUDENTS occupying a building at Warwick University vowed on Monday that they would not leave quietly without a change of attitude from the authorities. They want apologies from the university and…Read more…
From Under the Covers to Lecturing in College
FROM RADICAL ACTIVIST to respectable academic? The roles of police agent Bob
Just over a month ago, on October 23, 2014, the Metropolitan Police Service agreed to pay £425,000 to a woman…Read more…