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Staff at the University of Sussex and University of Winchester vote to strike over pay

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 are already leaving for better-paid jobs in supermarkets, warehouses and coffee shops.

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 at the Universities of Sussex and Winchester are being balloted for strike action over pay from 4 April

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 […]

University of East Anglia (UEA) bosses seem unable to answer the most simple questions about how they got sucked into a financial black hole, UNISON warns today. The union, which represents hundreds of cleaners, librarians, security guards and other professional services staff at the university, said UEA leaders appear to have no plan for getting […]

HE joint-unions and the employer, UCEA, have released a statement as they move into time-limited talks

Staff at the two universities are taking a third round of strike action over pay

  The current industrial action has not been postponed.  Senior national officer for higher education Ruth Smith said: “We are pleased the employers have agreed to enter the Acas process in order to […]

Shadow higher education minister Matt Western promises positive, long-lasting reform under a Labour government

As UNISON members continue to take strike action, the union is asking for donations to its strike fund

Most politicians don’t understand the cost of living crisis, because ‘they have never had to face it’, UNISON’s HE conference is told

Higher Education workers from across the UK showed solidarity with staff at Norwich’s University of East Anglia today. They took time out from UNISON’s Higher Education conference to send a clear message to UEA bosses to stop cuts which could lop up to 20% off budgets. The university has been scant on the details of […]

Those on the highest grades are offered the highest percentage rise, as new strikes dates are announced