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Students and Staff Standing United – Pay and Equality Ballot

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 adminIndustrial Action, Pay, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

  The ballot closes Friday 22nd February, post off your ballot papers by Wednesday 20th to be sure that they arrive on time.

Pay and Equality Ballot – all about everyone’s pay

February 10, 2019 adminEquality & Diversity, Industrial Action, Pay, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

UCU are balloting members over pay and equality. Staff have received below inflation pay offers year after year since 2009 and this year is no exception. Its time for the sector to catch up with the improvements in pay that…

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Pay & Equality Ballot – Gender Equality in HE

February 4, 2019February 3, 2019 adminEquality & Diversity, GPG, Industrial Action, Pay, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

UCU are balloting members over pay and equality. The gender pay gap at the University of Cambridge stands at 19.6% and little is being done to address this. Disparities are exacerbated by bonuses used to get round the stagnant pay…

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Cambridge UCU Gender Pay Gap Claim

February 2, 2019February 3, 2019 adminEquality & Diversity, GPG, Industrial Action, Pay and Equality Dispute 2018-9

We have submitted an official Gender Pay Gap (GPG) Claim to University HR, which asks the University to take meaningful action on closing the GPG. The E&D working group has been working hard to analyse the factors contributing to the…

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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.

Stamp out Casualisation in Cambridge – report

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

This report is the result of work of Cambridge UCU’s Anti Casualisation working group and outlines major issues TES staff and Hourly Paid Teaching staff have to contend with at the University of Cambridge.     Download our report  

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

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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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