- Conference
- 2024 National Higher Education Conference
- Date
- 11 October 2023
- Decision
- Carried
It is clear that while UCEA as a group are doggedly refusing to admit there is a problem with pay in the sector – and given that UCEA members / advisors are getting their information from employees “over the top of the national pay scale” perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised – individual HEIs are increasingly making adjustments to pay and grading structures, or settlements, in consultation with local union branches – colleagues at places such as Hull, Glasgow, Bath Spa and many others are to be saluted on what they have secured for their members, while not breaking out of national pay bargaining.
This motion very simply calls for SGE, and / or National Office to pull together a crib sheet, information pack and perhaps a template, using examples of good practice from branches who have been successful in this, on ways that other branches can take these negotiations to their employer and seek to secure some uplift, and circulate this to all branches.