We’ve updated some of our FAQs. Please have a look, especially if you’ve not been on strike before. October 2023 Pay Strikes FAQs
Category: Pay
Our proposed strike dates: Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd October
After our ballot, where 75% of members voting were in favour of taking action, UNISON has decided to call an England-wide strike across all university branches with a mandate. This is due to the inadequacy of the 2023-24 pay increase (5% to 8%, depending on grade, which is still well below inflation and therefore a real-terms pay cut). Of course,…
2023-24 Pay Ballot Result
We’re pleased to announce the results of our strike ballot over the 2023-24 pay increase: 74.5% of members voting, voted in favour of strike action, on a turnout of 56.3% A massive thanks to everyone who voted and everyone who encouraged others to vote. As we know, the rules are set to make it extremely difficult for union branches to…
Please remember to vote in our pay ballot!
If you work directly for the University, you should have received a green envelope at your home address with a ballot paper in it. It’s really important that we maximise the number of members voting, which is why we’ve spent weeks contacting members asking them to vote. Please don’t be one of those members who doesn’t manage to have your…
Support Fair Pay for Students’ Union Staff!
BSU staff have experienced nearly a decade of below-inflation pay awards, and we believe it is time to take action. The University of Brighton UNISON branch has submitted a pay claim on behalf of staff working for Brighton Students’ Union (BSU) in the 2023/24 academic year. The pay claim has been put forward due to several factors that affect BSU…
Imposed Pay Scales March 2023 & August 2023
Here’s my attempt to show the effect of the February/March 2023 pay uplift and what has been imposed for August 2023. UNISON has not accepted this, and we’ll ballot later in the year over strike action, but this should explain what’s been offered by UCEA. Figures are not official and could be subject to errors (entirely my own) and rounding…
Thursday 16th February – Come and join us on a march for better pay
Thursday 16th is the first of four days of strike action – our long weekend. We’ll be picketing each site from 8am and on Thursday, we’re meeting from 11.30am at Brighton train station to march down to Victoria Gardens at 12 noon, for a rally with UCU and other trade unionists from Brighton. Please try to join us if you…
UNISON Strike Action – Thursday 16th, Friday 17th, Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st
Our “long weekend” of strike action starts on Thursday with four days. We’re serious about a resolution to the imposition of a massive real-terms pay cut from August last year and we can’t continue to accept the reduction to our wages this implies. We know the University of Brighton is in a poor financial situation, but this is national campaign…
Strike Action over Pay – 24/25/30 November
You will know this already, but we’re planning strike action again on 24th, 25th and 30th November. This time, we’ll be striking alongside UCU at virtually every university and about 20 UNISON branches with a strike mandate. The Vice-Chancellor’s recent email recognised that the planned industrial action “stems from genuine concerns about the cost of living”. It is also about…
UCU Ballot Result points to joined up strike action over pay
If you’re going to have to take strike action to stop your pay sliding down and down, then you might as well make sure you win the strike. UCU’s national ballot result over pay and working conditions is a victory for all UNISON members, because it was necessary for UCU members to be able to take national strike action. They…