STRIKE ACTION ANNOUNCEMENT Unless the University’s senior managers make a significant offer, we will continue with strike action on The University of Birmingham’s Graduation Days: Tue 16th of July & Wed 17th of July.
Have a look at the videos from our Open Day strike (Friday 28th June 2019):
Since our last safety update at the start of term, we’ve been consistently pressuring the University to take the national lockdown seriously, by reducing activity on campus as much as possible, reducing the number of support staff required as a result. While we’ve had some engagement from the University on which buildings remain open, which…
What is the pay spine and what are the discussions for? The structure of grades and points is how our pay is organised. Our yearly pay talks mostly involve increasing everyone’s pay by a percentage, but the pay spine talks are more nuanced and include negotiating the pay people begin on, how quickly they move…
While the UK government and official scientific advisors are not yet recommending gatherings and meetings are cancelled, Birmingham University UNISON have decided to follow a precautionary approach, not least because we recognise that a number of members would have felt particularly anxious about attending a meeting of 50+ people in the current climate. Under…
Reposting advice from our Facebook page Government advice throughout the pandemic has been fast changing and sometimes contradictory. Late last week the government indicated that new local restrictions will be put in place across a large area in the North of England, and further loosening of lockdown restrictions have been paused. While the government maintains that…
Urgent: please respond to our questions listed at the end of the email – the answers can be very short (Y/N), or as detalied as you’d like! You may know that the University of Birmingham has been in the national news this week. Matthew Hedges, a Durham University Research Student who is currently in an…
Women’s Lives Course – Testimonial Julie Alonzo Unison Member, University of Birmingham Completed Women’s Lives Course in 2013 I attended this 10 week course during 2013. At the time I was a part time secretary seeking a new direction but not really knowing at the time exactly what I was looking for. At that time my…
