Tag: Salaries
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More Tea with your strike? UCU @ GCU calls 2 hour break on Thursday and Tuesday
Following the failure of the university employers association to offer a decent pay increase, the UCU throughout the UK will be holding a series of 2-hour long strikes – in the shape of an extended coffee/tea break – in the next three weeks. The dates and times of the strikes will be Thursday 23rd January…
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University Union slams ‘Elite University Bosses’
Unite the Union, one of the unions representing staff at Glasgow Caledonian today slammed what they called ‘Elite University Bosses’ at the Russell Group of Universities – which in Scotland includes Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St Andrews universities. Glasgow Caledonian University is not a member of this group – being a member, instead of the…
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GCU Unions clarify management’s misunderstandings
Following the misleading announcement by HR that current pay negotiations are ‘concluded’ the Combined Unions at Glasgow Caledonian issued the following statement to members today: Hi all You will have seen the email from the head of HR regarding the ongoing industrial dispute which four trade unions (EIS, UCU, UNISON and UNITE) and the decision…
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GCU Unions reject suggestion pay round is ‘concluded’
In an extremely surprising e-mail today university management at Glasgow Caledonian seem to have accepted the suggestion of the university employers representatives UCEA that the pay round has been ‘concluded’ and following this have decided to impose the sub inflation ‘rise’ of 1 percent on staff salaries. An email to all GCU staff reads that: “The…
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Robert Gordon University recognises contribution of its staff.
Following the lead of UWS, Robert Gordon University, has also decided to embrace the spirit of Christmas and pay its staff a bonus “to recognise the contribution of staff to another very successful period covering the financial year 2012-13” The e-mail to all staff from their Principal is below. We’re still hoping for a change of…
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Universities can afford to pay up say GCU unions
On 28 October, the Scottish Government announced that it was allocating £1.061 billion to Scottish Universities, a rise of £19 million from the planned budget for 2013/14.2 The latest available analysis by EIS showed that by 2011-12, Scottish universities had accumulated an operating surplus of almost £85 million between them, up from £15 million in…
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GCU unions out in force on strike day December 3rd
Representatives of Glasgow Caledonian trade unions UCU, Unison, EIS and Unite expressed themselves as extremely heartened by the support they received from staff on 3rd December following the failure of the UK university managements to seriously negotiate a realistic wages offer with university staff. Having leafleted GCU students the previous day asking for support for the…
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GCU University unions move towards strike action 3rd December
Following the failure of the University and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) to offer an increased pay offer to university staff, Glasgow Caledonian University unions will be joining their colleagues throughout Scotland and South of the border in a further day’s strike on Tuesday 3rd December. October 31st saw a tremendous turnout from staff from three…
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UCU Unison Unite pre-strike rally Wednesday M201
UCU Unison Unite Supported by GCU Combined Union Committee. United for Education – Fair Pay Now Pre-Strike Rally Wednesday October 30th 12 noon M201 (Old Library) Speakers tbc The pay claim is affordable The money is there – universities have more than £1 BILLION in reserves Higher education staff are worth it! Why you should strike for fair pay:…
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UCU to be balloted for industrial action over 1% pay offer
UCU confirmed on 17th September that it will ballot its members working in universities, later this month. The union highlighted its members in higher education have not received a meaningful pay increase since October 2008. Since 2009, they have suffered four consecutive years of pay cuts and seen their pay drop by 13% in real terms.…
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