Higher education conference calls on employers to give practical support staff to 12,500 support staff dealing with uncertainty following Brexit vote
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Assistant general secretary Roger McKenzie opens higher education conference with call to organise and remember union values
Figures show Black workers to be under-represented in higher education workforce
Cleaners set to strike as private employer plans to axe hours and jobs
‘I started my working life on 26 August 1982 and joined our union the same day’
‘UNISON is committed to national pay bargaining and will continue to campaign to improve members’ pay, terms and conditions’ says SGE
We may have a different prime minister but staff working in higher education face the same declining pay, the same tough working conditions and the same attacks on the sector that they faced under the previous prime minister
Higher education members will be voting over strike action as a result of a 1.1% pay offer for the majority of staff
UNISON launches ‘salary loss calculator’ for UK university staff ahead of September’s industrial action ballot
If this Tory government really cared about making our country fairer and more prosperous then decent pay for education workers would be one of their top priorities.
UNISON believes that no employee in higher education should be paid less than the Living Wage
UNISON has written to MPs to express deep concern about the Higher Education and Research Bill, which is having its second reading in Parliament today.
Summer ballot will see members asked to vote for strike to improve university employers’ 1.1% offer
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