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A message of support to EIS from UCU
On behalf of UCU members at Glasgow Caledonian Local UCU President Douglas Chalmers sent a message of solidarity to fellow academics in EIS who are taking action on the 23rd and confirmed he would be speaking at the Rally at midday in their support. Said Douglas: “Although our members did not vote for strike action…
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A message of support to EIS at GCU from Unite
Following the decision of EIS to strike, Mike Robinson, Unite’s National Officer for education circulated Unite members with the following message: EIS strike action “EIS have decided to strike on the 23rd October and will be applying a work to contract from the 24th October onwards until further notice. EIS have contacted Unite asking for…
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A message of support to EIS at GCU from the Student President
Hello all, Hope you are well, As you may know the students association held a referendum on whether our members support the strike or not. Our referendum has closed and our members have voted in favour. http://caledonianstudent.com/representation/news/index.php?page=article&news_id=346153 I have attached the link below to show my statement of support and I would like to take…
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GCU Unions say “The Universities can afford to increase pay”
According to latest figures Scotland’s Higher Education Institutions held cash reserves of around £2.6Billion at the end of the 2010-2011 financial year, while the pay levels of staff continue to decline. University reserves and endowments showed an increase of around £600Million since 2009, and the overall operating surplus for Scottish universities during 2010-2011 was over…
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UCU Updates
UCU Pay Update – Industrial Action Ballot Following the consultative on-line survey of members, and with the employers unwilling to negotiate on a joint union pay claim it has been decided that UCU will ballot members nationally on possible industrial action over pay. The employers offer remains 1% which does nothing to address current cost of…
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Fair Pay on Campus Campaign
This Gender Pay gap needs to go From ‘Jenna’ – a member of UCU at Glasgow Caledonian The Equality Challenge Unit reports that in 2011 the mean gender pay gap in UK HE was 20%……. A colleague recently brought this article to my attention: The Fair Pay on Campus campaign aims to address the huge…
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Glasgow Caledonian Unions welcome management change of heart over student resit ‘fines’
The announcement today that GCU management have withdrawn plans to ‘fine’ students for resits and retaking modules was today welcomed by GCU unions. Speaking on behalf of the University and College Union, branch president Douglas Chalmers said: “We welcome this step back by management on the issue. This really would have hit hard those who…
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Academic Unions at GCU call for a re-think on re-sit ‘fines’
The GCU branches of the University and College Union (UCU) and the Educational Institute for Scotland (EIS) both called today for the senior management at Glasgow Caledonian University to reconsider their decision to fine students, who need to undertake re-sits of exams or of modules. From the coming semester, students re-sitting exams will now have…
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Education Minister pledges to work in partnership with UCU
The UCU Scottish Congress took place in Edinburgh on March 23rd with full involvement of representatives from GCU and with a keynote address given by Education Minister Mike Russell. In contrast to last year’s Congress when GCU members spoke, but did not present motions, almost one third of the motions at Congress this year were…
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GCU unions re-grouping to consider how best to take pensions and conditions fight further
The national executives of three of the unions at GCU have decided in the last week against strike action in the immediate future but are continuing to demand that the scandalous situation regarding their members pay and pensions be resolved by employers and government. On 21st March the national executive of Unite decided to suspend…
