UoB Is Not a Happy Place! Leafleting with UCU at the University’s Annual Meeting (March 2018)








40,000 children will wake up in poverty on Christmas Day because the Tories refuse to pause and fix Universal Credit. Despite many working hard throughout the year, thousands of families will not be receiving their Universal Credit payments in time for Christmas, pushing the poorest families further into debt, poverty and at risk of eviction….
STRIKE DAYS ANNOUNCEMENT The next UNISON strike dates are due to be Thursday 28th November, Friday 29th November and Monday the 2nd December. Birmingham UCU branch will be on strike for 8 consecutive days, between Mon 25th November and Wed 4th December. We note that any member of staff who does not wish to cross…
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…
To read all our articles on New Core, please click here: https://uobunison.org.uk/category/new-core Issues with new Core, identified over the past few months: We worry that there might be many staff and students workers who don’t even know that their pay has been wrongly deducted. They might not have checked their online payslip (you have to…
You might also want to read our Strike Action mythbusters: https://uobunison.org.uk/strike-action-mythbusting
As we mentioned in our last post, the reballot for our dispute about pay and conditons at the University closed in February and our members made a clear decision to continue strike action, for the pay and terms and conditions we all deserve. In our most recent members’ meeting, members expressed very clearly that: We…