The University of East Anglia (UEA) has scrapped its commitment to the real living wage for its lowest-paid employees, UNISON reveals today. University bosses told around 300 cleaners, nursery staff and other workers on the lowest salaries today that they will not receive an expected pay increase next month. The real living wage is independently […]
Staff at the Universities of Sussex and Winchester are being balloted for strike action over pay from 4 April
Support staff at the University of Bedforshire are to be balloted from today for industrial action over the “inadequate” pay offer from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), says UNISON. Over the next five weeks, higher education workers including cleaners, IT technicians and library staff are to vote on whether to strike after the […]
Staff are already leaving for better-paid jobs in supermarkets, warehouses and coffee shops.
University support staff in Bedfordshire have voted to strike over a “sub-par” pay offer from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), says UNISON today. Cleaners, IT technicians, library staff and other higher education workers at the University of Bedfordshire and another eight institutions across England will now decide on dates to take action unless […]
Staff at the University of Sussex and University of Winchester vote to strike over pay
Facilities staff at the university are celebrating after winning their campaign against privatisation by the backdoor and cuts to terms and conditions.
University support staff in Bournemouth will strike tomorrow over “woeful” pay offer from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, says UNISON today (Monday).
Photos from four sunny picket lines across Bristol as University of Bristol support staff begin five days of action.
The higher education ballot is open until 31 July
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 […]
Three more days of strike action at the University of Winchester follow seven taken in June this year.
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
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 […]
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.
