Author: Sarah Pickett

HE PAY NEWS

  UNISON’s national Higher Education Service Group Executive (HESGE) met on the 10th May 2016 to consider the full and final offer made by UCEA, the national higher education employers’ organisation.   After a long debate the HESGE voted unanimously to reject the employers’ offer. The committee was clear that the offer of 1.1% for most staff, with the removal of the bottom…

Brighton and Hove District Labour Party supports Hands Off Hastings Campaign

At it’s last all members meeting the following motion put forward by Preston Park ward was passed. “This Labour Party branch notes the University of Brighton Senior Management Team and Board of Governors’ decision to wind down the Hastings campus over the next two years leading to closure in 2018 putting jobs at risk and disrupting students’ education.   This…

NEWS from Sussex Defend the NHS

Please find attached a flyer concerning an appalling new govt initiative which will destroy the NHS in the next few months. Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Tragically it is all too real. We have seen today a letter from our region’s supremo to the CCG and HWB If you haven’t heard of it it is the Sustainability and Transformation Plan.…

Hastings – Joint Negotiating Committee report

Dear colleagues The first Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) between University management and trade unions since the Hastings decision was announced took place yesterday. We thought that all members of University staff would appreciate a report. In advance of the meeting, the trade union side (UCU and Unison) had requested all the relevant information and data in order to be able…

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