Pay and Working Conditions Demands to be submitted to the University Management as part of negotiations
Update on the pay claim 2018/2019 – demands to be submitted to the university management as part of negotiations


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…
The UNISON and UCU branch committees note the recent occupation of the Guild of Students by the “Birmingham Students Assembly”. The occupation was a response to actions taken by the National Union of Students (NUS) related to a letter to it from over 70 elected student officers and almost 120 student groups, from more than…
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…
Payroll issues have continued this month and worse, a number of members have not been paid at all yesterday and are still currently awaiting an urgent payment to ensure they have the money they need to survive. We urgently need the problems with the payroll system to be fixed – it’s utterly ridiculous that a University…
Rights at work Below is a basic overview of your rights at work based on the support staff contract of employment. Please view the links on the left for more information about specific issues. Please note all the pages on this website are just an overview of your rights and are not intended as a…
The petition can be found here: https://www.change.org/p/david-eastwood-and-richard-metcalfe-end-outsourcing-at-the-university-of-birmingham-and-bring-edgbaston-park-hotel-staff-in-house In the video below, Mike Moore (joint branch secretary) provides context regarding the working conditions at the Edgbaston Park Hotel. More detailed information: In July 2018, The University of Birmingham opened The Edgbaston Park Hotel, a subsidiary company owned entirely by the University*. Although the Hotel say that…