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








We are delighted to announce that the turnout for the indicative ballot is 54.5%, with 87.9% voting ‘YES’. Members have overwhelmingly rejected the University’s offer and the turnout gives us the option of a strike ballot if we don’t get an improved pay offer along with action on job security, casualisation, workload and equality. We would like to…
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…
Since our last safety update at the start of term, we’ve been consistently pressuring the University to take the national lockdown seriously, by reducing activity on campus as much as possible, reducing the number of support staff required as a result. While we’ve had some engagement from the University on which buildings remain open, which…
Save the Date: Day of Action for Trans Rights – Solidarity Picnic and Crafternoon Wednesday 16th July 2025 While staff and students at the University are stepping up and standing together with the trans* community, management continue to choose silence over support. Our network has grown, we’ve hosted speakers, held solidarity picnics and we continue…
To mark the opening of the Green Heart, staff and students are holding an all day protest event to remind the VC David Eastwood and University management that this is our campus and #OurUniversity. Between 12.30pm – 1.30pm, UNISON and UCU, together with students, will be holding a protest against the lack of democracy at…
Despite current sky-high levels of inflation, staff at the University-owned Edgbaston Park Hotel are facing a big real-terms pay cut, unless a drastic improvement in the latest offer occurs. Following a pay freeze in 2020/21, the Hotel is refusing to move from their initial, derisory, offer of 2% and an early implementation of the minimum…