Cut senior managers’ pay, not ours! The University can afford to pay support staff more


Support staff vote for strike action after University of Birmingham fails to offer fair pay and conditions Our ballot for strike action closed on the 8 July. Once again we have smashed through the 50% turnout threshold, with the vast majority of staff voting in favour of action. Turnout: 54.9%YES to strike action: 86.7%NO to…
Updates before the upcoming two days of strike action: Tim Jones’ email…. Tim Jones has sent yet another email to all staff, misinforming them about our dispute. The 3% ‘offer’ for NEXT year (while refusing to offer anything for the year we’re actually in dispute) came as a result of union pressure. It’s absolutely not…
Press release Support staff at the University of Birmingham, including cleaners, maintenance workers, library staff and administrators, will take strike action on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 September, just as record numbers of students arrive for the new academic year. Why staff are striking: Pay: A below-inflation 1.4% pay offer, which amounts to a real-terms…
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…
Staff at the University of Birmingham were informed this morning that the ‘New Core’ system will no longer be going live for 4th February 2019 . In an email sent out from the Vice Chancellor’s mailbox, it was confirmed that the system launch has been postponed until June 2019 . While the email sent out…