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Pay & Equality Ballot – Workload in HE

January 27, 2019February 3, 2019 adminIndustrial Action, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9, Workload

UCU are balloting members over pay and equality. Action to address excessive workload is part of the claim. Workload is growing, and excessive workloads already take a toll on physical and mental health of HE staff. We need to seriously…

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Act NOW for a fairer university

January 20, 2019 adminIndustrial Action, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

UCU members and the wider university community are realising that the system is broken and that its time to look again at how universities work. That’s why we are balloting for strike action on job security, workload, gender equality and…

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Why are we re-balloting on the Pay and Equality dispute?

January 20, 2019January 20, 2019 adminIndustrial Action, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

UCU members at universities nationwide are being re-balloted on whether to take strike action in support of the 2018 national claim. As well as asking for a meaningful pay rise, instead of the sub-inflationary 2% offered by employers, UCU called…

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Pay & Equality Ballot – Casualisation in HE

January 19, 2019February 3, 2019 adminCasualisation, Industrial Action, Pay, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

UCU are balloting members over pay and equality. Action for job security is part of the claim; to tackle the casual and precarious contracts that are rife in Universities.

Anti Casualisation Claim

December 12, 2018February 2, 2019 adminCasualisation, Industrial Action, Pay, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

This claim was submitted to the University in December 2018 and will be the subject of local negotiations to improve pay and conditions for casualised and precarious staff.   Download our anti-casualisation claim

Motion on Anti-Trade Union Laws

October 12, 2018August 26, 2019 adminIndustrial Action, Motions

Motion on Anti-Trade Union Laws for Oct 12 2018 GM12 Oct 2018 at 13:00 – 14:00, Room 4, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms Free our unions Cambridge UCU believes: That the anti-trade union laws – from the 2016 Trade Union Act…

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Pay and Equality Meeting slides

October 11, 2018March 10, 2019 adminIndustrial Action, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9Leave a Comment on Pay and Equality Meeting slides

Missed our Pay and Equality Meeting? Take a look at the slides and see why we are asking for a fair pay deal.

Joint UCU and UNISON letter to the VC on Pay and Equality

October 2, 2018March 10, 2019 adminIndustrial Action, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9Leave a Comment on Joint UCU and UNISON letter to the VC on Pay and Equality

Vote for action on workload

June 26, 2018February 2, 2019 adminIndustrial Action, Pay, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9, Workload

This post is based on the fourth and final in a series of emails sent by CUCU to members on the pay ballot that closes at noon on Wednesday June 27. We strongly recommend that all members vote to reject the pay offer and…

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Vote for action on casualisation

June 26, 2018February 2, 2019 adminCasualisation, Industrial Action, Pay, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

This post is based on the third in a series of emails sent by Cambridge UCU to members on the consultative pay ballot that closes at noon on Wednesday June 27. Cambridge UCU strongly recommends that all members vote to reject the pay offer and…

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unisoninhe UNISON in Higher Education @unisoninhe ·
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We are committed to seeking a negotiated settlement on pay and the four pay related elements and we are happy to meet again at Acas once the unions have completed their consultation processes.

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unisoninhe UNISON in Higher Education @unisoninhe ·
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Whether or not any action goes ahead at any particular time will be subject to a democratic decision at that time.

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unisoninhe UNISON in Higher Education @unisoninhe ·
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Without a mandate for industrial action our power is significantly weakened, so the unions will not give up their right to run ballots to obtain that mandate up front for a period of 12 months, and believe it is unreasonable of UCEA to expect them to do so.

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The requirements of the TU Act 2016 on trades unions are onerous and require trade unions to give advance notice of ballots, run postal ballots, be open to challenge on the details of those ballots, achieve a 50% turnout threshold and a positive majority vote in favour of action,

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unisoninhe UNISON in Higher Education @unisoninhe ·
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The joint unions wish to make it clear that we will not agree to any cessation of industrial action up front for the next 12 months and that the unions and UCEA must respect our trade union democratic processes.

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