It is indeed High Noon for David Eastwood! ✊✊✊ UNISON support staff members have backed strike action by a clear and dramatic margin. To summarise it here: Over 78.6% of members participating voted in favour of taking strike action The turnout of the ballot was 51.3%, meeting the very high threshold imposed by the anti-union…
To mark the opening of the Green Heart, staff and students are holding an all day protest event to remind the VC David Eastwood and University management that this is our campus and #OurUniversity. Between 12.30pm – 1.30pm, UNISON and UCU, together with students, will be holding a protest against the lack of democracy at…
Ann Widdecombe holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Birmingham. Will the University/ VC David Eastwood revoke her degree, in light of her homophobic comments? You can read more about the outrage she has caused recently when she claimed that “science may produce an answer” to homosexuality. Is the University of Birmingham still willing to…
UoB will continue to cut our pay and attack our conditions – unless 50% of support staff members vote in the ballot One of the key demands of our dispute is: Restructure the Pay Spine and allocate a budget for it, with no strings attached Year on year of below inflation pay increases…
Listening to Liam Byrne talk today on why all staff deserve to be paid a living wage I was struck by the fact that Birmingham was once called “…the best governed city in the world” – acknowledged by many as somewhere that not only fulfilled its civic duty but exceeded it. It also reminded me…
Can’t lose a day’s pay? The union strike ballot hardship fund can cover the costs for those who need it most We know many of our members are facing hardship — that’s why we have to strike to win a fairer pay deal and better working conditions for all staff. Remember, any concessions won are…
Birmingham Heroes? The University constantly seeks to market itself by exploiting the work of its undeniably talented and hard-working members of academic staff. The actions of the University itself undermine the fantastic research happening here on campus. We’ve put together a series of posters highlighting this. The first one is attached – while academic…
On Thursday 30th May, Liam Byrne MP, will be on campus (12.30pm – 1.30pm, Murray Learning Centre, UG07) to talk about how to persuade the University to become a Real Living Wage employer. Liam made headlines recently when he turned down an honour from the University because of its ongoing refusal to formally accredit as…
We are pleased to have read an article explaining our campaign to UCU members, written by our sister branch on campus, Birmingham UCU. You can read it here: https://birminghamucu.org/2019/05/18/high-noon-for-david-eastwood-unison-uob-strike-ballot/ We also understand that an email has been sent to all UCU members on the University of Birmingham campus, in support of our fight for fair pay,…
Our demands are that the University: Gives an above RPI inflation pay increase to all support staff; Becomes a Living Wage Accredited employer; Eliminates the gender pay gap by 2020; Fixes the Support Staff pay spine & allocates a budget for it; Negotiates with all unions on the joint unions’ report on working conditions at…
