Pay and working conditions demands 2018

Update on the pay claim 2018/2019 – demands submitted jointly by all trade unions on campus to university management as part of negotiations

Alongside the demands for Living Wage Accreditation, an above inflation pay rise, and redesigning the pay spine, our dispute with the university includes our demand for them to negotiate meaningfully with all unions on a joint report that we jointly submitted and tried to negotiate on, in Autumn 2018. The report can be found here. Below we are displaying the demands from the report in a easy-to-reach way. All demands have further action points – to access them, please click on the relevant image, and a pop-up with text will appear.
 

Equality

Casualisation, job security, & workload

Provide properly subsidised childcare for all staff by 2020[sg_popup id=”1513″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

Commit to rewriting the flexible working policy in negotiation with the trade unions[sg_popup id=”1641″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

Ensure that all staff are employed on full employment contracts, with the University as the recognised employer[sg_popup id=”1517″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

Reduce the number of disciplinary proceedings against Cleaning Services Staff[sg_popup id=”1557″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

End vacancy saving targets for Budget Centres and ensure all positions are well-resourced[sg_popup id=”1521″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

 Draw up an action plan to close the gender pay gap by 2020[sg_popup id=”1399″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

 Commit to a single Welfare and Wellbeing Services strategy and ensure proper support structures and safety of College Welfare and Wellbeing staff[sg_popup id=”1558″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Stop the creeping implementation of any ‘5 in 7’ and ‘annualised hours’ contracts[sg_popup id=”1551″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]
 End all 9 month teaching and research contracts, with a minimum length of 12 months for standard positions[sg_popup id=”1553″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Fair and consistent workload[sg_popup id=”1515″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]
Support non-EU and EU staff by providing certainty of employment status[sg_popup id=”1562″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Address Trade Unions’ Concerns in relation to the campus in Dubai[sg_popup id=”1370″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Commit to extending sick pay in cases of serious illness and disability-related absence[sg_popup id=”1547″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Where any member of staff has worked on fixed term contracts for more than 4 years, the University must have a policy in place committing them a permanent contract, as required by employment law[sg_popup id=”1548″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

Offer genuine double-pay and time off in lieu to all support staff who work on bank holidays and university closed days[sg_popup id=”1541″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

Ensure a minimum of 50% quotas for women or non-binary panel members on all appointment and promotion panels[sg_popup id=”1518″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

 Stop the pricing out of staff from the Sports Centre[sg_popup id=”1387″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] For all teaching and research staff, full employment contracts should be drawn up with a clear description of the role of the job in question and offered before the start of term so that staff can be paid during the month that they start work[sg_popup id=”1517″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Sign the TUC ‘Dying to Work’ Charter[sg_popup id=”1533″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] An end to unreasonable marking deadlines for written assignments

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Disclosure of the Ethnicity Pay Gap[sg_popup id=”2386″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]
Commit to working with the unions to implement a comprehensive domestic violence and harassment policy[sg_popup id=”1543″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]		 Formal agreement that all casualised committee members of recognised trade unions are entitled to the same level of paid facilities time to carry out trade union duties as full time staff[sg_popup id=”1514″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Bring staff in the Edgbaston Park Hotel back in-house[sg_popup id=”1379″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Adopt the recommended HEPI (Higher Education Policy Institute) student-to-counsellor ratio, and recruit 21 accredited counsellors (FTE[sg_popup id=”1527″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

Provide adequate car parking facilities and work with the trade unions on campus to better incentivise sustainable transport[sg_popup id=”1617″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]

 Support the Period Dignity Campaign[sg_popup id=”1529″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Guarantee that the opportunity to enrol on the University’s HEA Accredited PGCHE will be made available to all teaching staff[sg_popup id=”1415″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Have union representation on disciplinary hearing panels for all staff[sg_popup id=”1554″ event=”click”][/sg_popup] Ensure cases of absence are referred to and seen by Occupational Health before any formal processes are implemented[sg_popup id=”1556″ event=”click”][/sg_popup]