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Victory for UNISON over University Of Winchester pensions

UNISON and UCU members brave the cold to strike over pay freeze

UNISON members will walk out for 24 hours and join picket lines after their pay was frozen in 2020

This is because for the 2020/21 pay offer, the employers rewarded your hard work during the pandemic with a pay freeze […]

Staff ‘heartbroken’ at planned closure of much loved nursery at the University of Brighton

Thousands will suffer in retirement due to government’s public sector exit-payment cap, says UNISON

Please encourage Black activists in your branch to register for this event; panelists include Assistant General Secretary, Roger McKenzie, and Chair of the […]

‘A world without universities would be tragic. I just can’t comprehend it.’ Higher education member Bill Acharjee (above) works at Solent University in Southampton as a research governance officer, with the task of ensuring that students and academics maintain ethical standards while they conduct their research projects. He’s thoughtful, conscientious. And while working from home […]

Oxford City Council introduced the OLW in 2009, set at 95% of the Living Wage Foundation‘s London […]

The decline in real earnings for higher education staff like those at Solent University is equally real. Between 2009 and 2017 […]

UNISON recommends that Higher Education members reject employers’ pay offer

At University of Southampton, campus trade unions rallied with sympathetic students to protest attacks on staff pension schemes. Although only members of USS scheme are currently on strike as part of UCU’s national industrial action, at this university all staff pensions are under threat and in various stages of consultation. This is why members of […]