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Dear members, You were told that the University’s offer was 1.2% better than the national offer. For example, Tim Jones said on 30th August 2019 that: ‘We understand that staff earning the lowest salaries can be most affected by rises in the costs of living and cuts in government services. This is why we put…
Urgent: please respond to our questions listed at the end of the email – the answers can be very short (Y/N), or as detalied as you’d like! You may know that the University of Birmingham has been in the national news this week. Matthew Hedges, a Durham University Research Student who is currently in an…
Update on the 3rd pay meeting with the University and their final pay offer UNISON’s pay claim for 2018/2019 can be found here. The University’s full and final offer for 2018/2019 for all bands is: * an increase by 2% or £425, whichever is greater, with effect from 1st August 2018. * raising the…
While it’s a bit of a relief that Monday will not see radical changes to safety arrangements at the University, there were a couple of issues in the Vice Chancellor’s recent announcement on the University’s plans for the transition period to the start of the new academic year. Firstly and possibly most urgently there is…
UoB UNISON will be holding an online members meeting this coming Tuesday at 1pm via Zoom. You should have had the invite to the meeting by email and or text. If you are a member and haven’t had it please contact us on unisonbham@contacts.bham.ac.uk and we’ll send it through to you. The meeting will discuss…
Stonewall top 100 employers We note that the University is currently looking once again to be included in the list of 100 top employers put together by Stonewall, and is asking staff to complete a survey as part of this. The University has been listed in the past but missed out in 2018 and 2019….