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The union says that a pay increase is vital after last year’s freeze if support staff are not to suffer further falls in their standard of living

Ashley Williams, a sports attendant at Bolton College, and college principal Marie Gilluley, explain why the living wage matters

AoC withdraw from English FE colleges national agreement on sick leave: joint union reaction

Union urges government to prevent colleges from funding offshoring projects

The survey coincides with the launch of UNISON's A Better Start for Young People vision document. It sets out the union's wide-ranging […]

Sixth Form College Employers make final offer of a 1% increase on all pay points and London weighting and fringe area allowances

Many universities and colleges across the country resemble ghost towns with UNISON members in Higher Education staging a one day walkout in a protest over a phantom pay rise.

UNISON has a long association with Ruskin College and we encourage our activists to enrol on either the college’s BA or MA international labour and trade union studies programmes

Trade union members working in further education in Wales will be consulted over a 1% revised pay offer which is expected to be formally announced 12 January

Further education workers in Wales have voted to accept a 1% pay offer made by the employers following the threat of industrial action

The further education joint trade unions have now lodged a pay claim for 2015-16 to the employer, stressing the need for colleges to introduce the living wage

These cuts are a further blow to colleges who have already lost around one million learners.  UNISON estimates that the cuts could lead to a loss of more than 400,000 college students in 2015/16 […]

Sign the petition to keep the trade union studies unit at Stoke on Trent college

University managers accused of ‘stubborn refusal’ to consider alternatives to compulsory redundancy

UNISON part of delegation that handed petition to Downing Street, signed by more than 42,500 people opposed to ‘unfair’ and ‘harmful’ cuts in further education