University of Brighton UNISON BranchMembers who’ve been here for more than a few years may remember our campaign to save the childcare provision at the University. With the Brighton Centre for Contemporary Arts due to close, and other “non-core business” activity being scaled back, you may be interested in this article, written by someone who long-standing members may know. […]
University of Brighton Unison is backing the Fossil Free Careers campaign after a motion was passed at the Annual General Meetings in March 2023. The campaign calls on the University of Brighton Careers and Employability team to stop actively promoting careers in the oil, gas, and mining industries. This means no longer inviting these companies […]
Please don’t forget our AGMs are taking place this week. All the information you need on our dedicated AGM page.
We’ll have more details later in the week, but after talks at ACAS, all five unions have agreed to suspend planned industrial action. Please see our email.
Leonie Moore and Lee Christien were recently delegates to our annual Higher Education conference. Here are their reports: UNISON 2023 Higher Education Service Group Conference Reports
As you may have seen, we’ve been made an opening offer of between 4% and 7% for August 2023, with a proportion of this payable in February 2023. The higher 7% is targeted at the lowest grade with 4% at those currently earning the most. This contrasts with UNISON’s pay claim, which is for £4,000 […]
The Summer edition of the regional Black members’ newsletter can be found here: SERBMSummerNewsletter2022 Black members have also organised a training weekend, details here: Black-Members-Training-weekend-flyer-and-Application-form (8) Please get in touch if you’d be interested in attending.
As you know, we’ve been using our strike ballot mandate to campaign for the University to make bonus payments to support staff, to make up for the pay freeze imposed on us all in August 2020. We first made the claim in the middle of October, and the Vice Chancellor’s response, via a number of […]