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


Run for an officer position at the next AGM! Your UNISON Annual General Meeting is taking place between 1-3pm on Wednesday 13th February in Arts Lecture Room 1. The AGM is your opportunity to raise issues that matter to you, stand for your UNISON branch committee, vote for who you want to be your branch officers, set branch policy and…
Closing down the opposition Not content with making a lot of money from its new Sports Centre on campus (UB Sport, which cost £55million), The University of Birmingham bought Selly Oak’s local swimming pool (Tiverton Pool) in early 2018, and is now in process of turning it into a satellite gym (to be opened in…
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We are extremely delighted that our sister branch, Birmingham UCU, has reached the threshold for both ballots that took place between the beginning of September and the end of October. The turnout for the pay/ casualisation/ equality/ workloads ballot was 58%, with 77% of members voting yes for strike action. The turnout for the pensions…
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…
Please take a minute to have a look at the upcoming UNISON network meetings, seminars, and conferences (nationally) – you can find them listed on our website: https://uobunison.org.uk/events/list Network meetings (August): for members disabled LGBT members, Deaf members, disabled women, and disabled Black members (separate events for each group); National members meetings (September): for Black…