This month: Updates on the pay dispute and more on the Staff Survey. You can find it in the Newsletters section at the top of the menu. As always, any comments, good or bad are welcome.
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Author: Ivan Bonsell
UNISON’s Higher Education Service Group Executive met yesterday to decide on the next steps for this year’s pay campaign. The consultative ballot of all branches returned an overwhelming vote in favour of rejecting the “final” offer of 2.0% or £450, which is consistent with the message received from our branch’s membership. Members will receive ballot […]
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2018-19 Consultative Pay Ballot Result
The results of our ballot of Brighton branch members on whether to accept or reject the “final offer” of 2.0% or £425 is follows: 84.2% voted to REJECT the offer. 15.2% voted to ACCEPT the offer. The turnout was 57.7%. Thanks to everyone who voted or persuaded others to vote. This is the highest turnout we have […]
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July 2018 newsletter is now available
UNISON Branch Newsletter – July 2018 This month’s newsletter is dominated by our consultative ballot on pay for all our members of University staff. Ballot papers and instructions on how to vote electronically will go out from next week. Please make sure you vote in this important ballot.
As promised, we’re balloting all our members on the employers’ final offer of 2% or £425. We think this is a below-inflation, real terms pay cut, and so we’re recommending that members vote to REJECT it. There’s further information in the July newsletter (out soon) and on UNISON’s national website. https://www.unison.org.uk/at-work/education-services/about/higher-education/higher-education-ballot/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PAY%20BULLETIN%203%20-%202018%2F2019&utm_source=Education&utm_content=click%20here. Ballot forms will go […]
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June 2018 Newsletter
UNISON Branch Newsletter – June 2018
UNISON’s national Service Group Executive met last week to discuss the employer’s final offer of 2.0% or £425 (whichever is greater) from August 2018. The group noted that the offer still represents a real-terms pay cut and does not come close to the pay claim of 7.5% (or £1,500 and £10/hour minimum wage). Given that […]
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2018-19 Pay: Final offer of 2.0% or £425
UNISON negotiators met the employers’ organisation (UCEA), alongside sister trade unions yesterday (10th May) to hold the final of three scheduled meetings to discuss the pay increase for all University employed staff due on 1st August 2018. UCEA made a final offer of 2.0% or £425, whichever is greater. (At Brighton, this would mean a range […]
UNISON has welcomed a commitment by the University of Bath to reinstate the living wage – currently £8.75 an hour – from next week, and seek accreditation as a living wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. But the union, which represents some 300 staff at the university, warned that while this is an urgently […]