- Conference
- 2024 National Higher Education Conference
- Date
- 11 October 2023
- Decision
- Carried
Every year, UCEA representing the employers in the HE sector pay negotiations, state that while some universities are wealthy, there are universities that would struggle, indeed may be forced into considering redundancies, the closure of departments and so on, should a significant pay settlement be forced upon them.
For this reason, staff salaries have been forced down against inflation for the last 14 years. It would seem, following this logic, that staff pay reductions are being used to prop up bad business models.
Once we properly understand the situation in the sector, we can plan our strategy for getting staff pay back to acceptable levels.
Conference calls on SGE to investigate the state of finances within the sector, to determine once and for all the truth of this claim made repeatedly by UCEA.