Category: Pay

We should have the results, both from this University and nationally by the end of this week and we’ll let you know what happens next as soon as we know.

If you work directly for the University and we have your email address on our system, you should have received an email from “Jon at UNISON”. This gives you a personal link to be able to vote to accept or reject the offer, which is 1.8% or slightly more for grades 1 to 3. Please […]

Members may already have seen the result of our national postal ballot over pay. The national website has details here. 61.9% of members who voted, voted to reject the 2.0% pay offer and were prepared to take strike action, but the turnout of 31.0% falls short of what is required to take the campaign further. […]

If you work for the University and haven’t yet voted, you have two weeks to do so. It’s really important that we get a decent turnout, so please make every effort to vote by the 25th October deadline. If you’ve not had a ballot paper, please let us know and call 0800 0857 857 for […]

If you work directly for the University, you should have received a ballot paper from the Electoral Reform Service. It’s important that you vote, so please make sure you do, by posting your ballot back to them by the 25th October. If you haven’t got one, it’s either because your home address details held by […]

UNISON is disappointed with the decision to make a payment of 2%, backdated to 1st August. Obviously we always welcome genuine increases to wages (!) but as we’ve pointed out elsewhere on many occasions, 2.0% or even 2.6% for the lowest paid, when inflation is nearer 3.2%, represents a real terms pay cut. The fact […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]