Thanks to everyone who voted in our pay ballot. We easily beat the 50% turnout threshold and now have a legal strike mandate over the imposed 1.4% pay rise. We’ll be talking to other branches in the New Year and will be in touch about what our plans are to see pay justice in 2026. […]
Our campus trade unions have a strong and proud history of leading the fight against oppression in all forms. UCU and Unison are appalled at the current rise of anti-trans rhetoric, rulings and behaviour that has made life insecure and unsafe for our trans and non-binary comrades. Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual […]
UNSION’s General Secretary Election is live. All members who joined before the end of July will get a vote and you have until 25 November to make yours count, by returning your ballot paper in the post.As you can see from the candidates’ statements, our branch nominated Andrea Egan. We think she is the […]
Starting on Monday the 20th of October, UNISON launched a national pay ballot for strike action alongside UCU, Unite, and Scotland’s EIS. This pay ballot is the result of years of below-inflation pay raises, culminating in this year’s paltry offer of 1.4% by UCEA, the Universities and Colleges Employers Association. In reality, 1.4% is a […]
We have invited Peter Kyle, MP for Hove and Portslade and Secretary of State for Business and Trade, to attend our upcoming branch Open Meeting. Date: Friday 31st October 2025 Time: 12:00 Location: Microsoft Teams – click to join This will be an opportunity for all members to raise questions with Peter Kyle regarding the state […]
It is, of course, of major concern that far-right groups were able to persuade so many people to demonstrate in London last Saturday. Many of our members will be frightened about the threat of violence and intolerance that the movement represents, particularly those with Black and Asian heritage, or LBGT+ people. Whilst this was the […]
Thanks to everyone who responded to our pay consultation email or registered their views on-line. Members of our branch rejected the 1.4% final pay offer by 92.6% on a 47.7% turnout. With UCU also consulting members, we remain determined to campaign for a proper rise in pay that represents what our members need to live […]
Trade union activists have been warning for many years that the system of funding higher education is unsustainable and subject to major problems if one or more of the multiple funding streams dries up. Had the £9,000 tuition fee, astronomical when first introduced, been pegged to some level of inflation, we’d be in a very […]
UNISON National Executive Council is made up of 68 people from across the union. It runs the union in between conferences and it’s important that members are democratically elected every two years by as many members as possible, so that the NEC has the widest democratic mandate to take the union in the direction members […]