University of Brighton UNISON BranchYou have until midnight on Sunday (30th October) to submit your thoughts on the proposals at Hastings. If you’ve not already done so, then please give it a go: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/hastings-consultation/index.aspx
The result of the national pay ballot across all universities was as follows: 3,381 voting in favour of taking strike action (54.9%) 2,782 voting in favour of not taking strike action (45.1%) The Higher Education Service Group Executive (HESGE) met in September and voted to not take any action in the form of a strike, […]
Higher education pay ballot 2016 Vote yes to strike action in the higher education pay ballot Reject the 1.1% pay offer Ballot opens 30 August Ballot closes 19 September UNISON is balloting members who work in universities on whether to take strike action over the employers’ miserly pay offer of 1.1%. UNISON’s higher education […]
Report for the Board of Governors July 2016 This is what’s gone to all Board members as we urge them to think carefully about rubber-stamping the decision to close Hastings campus.
July’s Branch Committee meeting agreed to support Defend the NHS Sussex in their campaign to keep the NHS free and publically owned. More information on what they’re doing here: http://defendthenhssussex.weebly.com/
Some five million people rely on the Local Government Pension Scheme to pay their pension. Yet Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to force the individual pension funds to invest in infrastructure, as an alternative to direct government funding of the schemes – even if this doesn’t give the best return for scheme members’ pensions. […]
Ballot papers for UoB-employed members should be with you by 17 June at the very latest along with the newsletters. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU USE YOUR VOTE!
We’ll be arranging a consultative ballot for all UoB-employed members, with ballot forms coming out with our newsletter this month. Please make sure you let us know what you think.
If you want to give your views on the review of Hastings, you have until 8th March to contact a member of the University Board of Governors. brighton.ac.uk/About-us/Governance-and-information/Board-of-Governors/index.aspx You can write or email any of them care of the Vice Chancellor or if you want to send your comments to us, we can pass them […]