Name and shame

(01/07/09) Find out what the pay of principals and senior post holders is in 80 colleges that are refusing to honour pay deals for their low paid staff.

Join college protests

(30/06/09) Take a stand against job and funding cuts by joining lunchtime protests this Friday 3 July outside FE colleges in England.

Get ready for July 3 protests

(26/06/09) The further education unions are asking branches and reps to organise lunch time protests outside FE colleges in England over job cuts and funding on Friday 3 July. Please note these are lunch time protests not industrial action.

Unions call national lunch time protests over FE job cuts and funding in England – Friday 3 July

UNISON, UCU, ATL, GMB, UNITE & ACM are calling for branches and reps to organise lunch time protests outside FE colleges over job cuts and funding in England, on Friday 3 July. Please note these are lunch time protests not industrial action.

Redundancies – advice and guidance

(17/06/2009) The threat of redundancies across the UK Further Education system continues and in light of concerns over future funding could be with us for some time.   A number of colleges are pursuing active campaigns against redundancies and we are determined to help them in every way we can. To assist branches and workplaces we are working on a range of supporting advice and guidance.

Points Based Immigration System

(16/06/2009)(11/06/2009) The Home Office has introduced a points-based immigration system that is affecting colleges and Higher Education institutions. The system awards points to workers' from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) for skills that reflect experience and age.

1% “final pay offer”– Unions condemn AoC negotiating tactics

This bulletin tells members about the recent pay negotiations.

UNISON in Colleges

(02/06/2009)UNISON in Colleges’; a newsletter for members in further education and sixth form colleges summer edition has been produced. The newsletter gives updated information on the Time to Pay Up campaign, Capital Funding, equality issues, Wales, Scotland and sixth forms. Branches are urged to order a supply of the newsletter to send to colleges in their authority (stock no. 2518).

We hope to produce ‘UNISON in Colleges’ every term and comments and suggestions for content are welcome.

Further Education - Redundancies Survey

(01/06/2009) UNISON is urgently trying to identify those colleges in the UK planning to make redundancies. Unfortunately this is the time of year that colleges planning to make cuts choose to announce redundancies.

A Manifesto for Education Libraries

19/05/2009)UNISON represents more than 20,000 library staff in a wide variety of settings. Our members work in libraries and learning resource centres in schools, colleges and universities across the UK, as well as in the more visible public library service. UNISON will take every opportunity to keep libraries at the heart learning.