Demand: Restructure the Pay Spine and allocate a budget for it, with no strings attached
One of the key demands of our dispute is: Restructure the Pay Spine and allocate a budget for it, with no strings attached
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The letter can be read and signed here uobunison.org.uk/challenge (the page also includes a video of 12 members reading it out). On Thursday afternoon (1st of August 2019), members of UNISON University of Birmingham branch went to VC David Eastwood’s office to hand-deliver the challenge letter addressed to him and the rest of senior management. The…
We are asking all support staff to join us in striking this week. Participating will help win a better deal for you and your colleagues! To help us win this dispute we’d love it if you could join us on our picket lines. On Thursday and Friday this week we will be following a similar…
We would like to update you on the things that are coming up later in the month. Pay talks – 11th Oct Our 3rd meeting with the university on pay will take place on the 11th of October, when we will find out whether their offer has improved. At the last branch members’ meeting, we passed a motion…
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…
We had the 2nd Pay Talks meeting with the University on 13/09/2018, and they have: – rejected our demand for the institution to become a Living Wage Accredited Employer, leaving many staff on poverty wages – rejected our 7.5% pay claim and offered us 2% instead (which is below inflation!) – been unwilling to commit…
Our email reporting concerns 22.01.21 Dear Simon, Gillian, Mark, I am writing on behalf of UNISON members further to discussions this week regarding serious safety concerns that we feel have the potential to put employees of the University at risk of serious and imminent danger, and particularly those working within the University nurseries and the…