Senior managers at the University of Huddersfield have found the money to offer a voluntary redundancy package after pressure from UNISON to avoid compulsory job losses, says the union today (Tuesday). The university announced plans in April to make 198 compulsory redundancies, which is more than 10% of its current workforce. A survey of staff […]
Westfield nursery, which provides accessible and affordable childcare for students and staff at the university, is due to close in less than three months. The move […]
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea has published a statement of solidarity to all workers being impacted by cuts in higher education. “UNISON stands in solidarity with all branches and members resisting job cuts and course closures across the higher education sector. “The proposed plan to make around 200 people (12% of the workforce) redundant at […]
Plans by Sheffield Hallam University to cut 425 jobs will be deeply damaging to staff and students, says UNISON today (Wednesday). Around 200 clerical, professional and technical staff posts including in catering and student support are under threat at the university, in addition to 225 previously declared academic posts. Sheffield Hallam has blamed the planned redundancies on what it […]
Delegates met in Milton Keynes to tackle a wide-ranging agenda
Five Universities in the South East taking strike action on 2 and 3 October 2023.
Support staff at Leeds Trinity University and the University of Leeds are to stage coordinated strike action, along with 18 other universities in England and Scotland, for at least two days in their ongoing dispute about pay, says UNISON today (Thursday). More than 5,000 staff belonging to the union from the 20 universities could take […]
Thursday 17 August saw day 2 of the strike by professional services staff at the University of Sussex. Here’s what happened.
On 16 August 2023, professional services staff from the University of Sussex walked out for 48 hours in a dispute over pay. Here’s a round-up from day 1 on the picket lines.
Industrial action will take place during ‘clearing week’, which will disrupt the process of filling courses with vacant spots, the union says.
The results are in for the higher education strike ballot that ran from 31 May to 31 July – and 4 higher education institutions in the South West have met the threshold for action.
Support staff at the University of Bedfordshire have won an extra five days’ paid holiday, says UNISON today. It follows a long campaign by the union to highlight what is says is the unfair difference in annual leave entitlement between support staff, who work in professional services, and academics. From September, full-time professional services staff […]
HE members have suffered a real-terms pay cut of around 25% over the last 14 years, due to year on year rises that were below inflation
Three more days of strike action at the University of Winchester follow seven taken in June this year.
For example, in the HE autumn term strike ballot Movement has logged that over 1,730 members have told the union they have voted so far […]
