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‘Staff in higher education have suffered years of pay restraint not replicated for senior managers’ "The number of university staff earning below the living wage is nearly […]

UNISON higher education conference sets out campaign to defeat bill and protect trade union rights and reps

Higher education conference backs call for 5% or £1,000 pay rise

Higher education delegates pledge to lobby for a reversal of Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to scrap bursary

UNISON calls on higher education employers to invest in staff after £1bn+ surplus unveiled for third year in a row

Employers’ initial offer to higher education unions does not include the living wage

Outsourced cleaners ‘so happy’ as six-month campaign pays off with promise of pay rise

Employers also offer further joint work on gender pay and casualisation

‘Casualisation is short sighted, bad for staff and bad for students’ says UNISON, as it reveals growing scale of the problem

UNISON launches ‘salary loss calculator’ for UK university staff ahead of September’s industrial action ballot

Union emphasises the need for higher education to be accessible to young people from ‘deprived communities’

The call comes after the latest workforce figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show that there is still a smaller proportion […]

Assistant general secretary Roger McKenzie opens higher education conference with call to organise and remember union values

Higher education conference calls on employers to give practical support staff to 12,500 support staff dealing with uncertainty following Brexit vote

‘Higher education workers deserve fair pay’ conference declares as it sets out plans to build joint pay claim with fellow unions