On the eve of the national dispute ballots opening, UCU general secretary Jo Grady has emailed HE members: Your ballot papers arrive this week: vote YES to industrial actionJo also spoke with student newspaper The Tab about why UCU members are taking action, asking why 'university managers, year after year, are happy to let chaos reign in the sector'. instruct HEC to declare a dispute with UUK over USS, ballot all USS members for industrial action to defend a defined benefit USS scheme, take industrial action (including strike and action short of strike action) in the autumn term, initiate exploration of the feasibility of conditional benefits and conditional indexation, continue the Four Fights campaign (pay, workload, casualisation, equality), ballot all HE members for industrial action in support of Four Fights, coordinate the USS and Four Fights ballots, take industrial action in pursuit of the Four Fights beginning in November, coordinate the campaign with sister unions. At that meeting the employers asked us to agree to open the 2023-4 pay round early. The joint unions have responded by issuing a statement which said 'in the context of the real suffering we know our members are currently experiencing, we found this to be a woefully inadequate response': During my doctoral program, I gained a range of skills and experiences that I draw on today as a graduate career coach at the University of Utah. UUP, state open talks for new contract: UUP web story, May 27, 2022. This is similar to the way pay outcomes has been distributed in recent years. The Office for National Statistics reported CPIH in June at 2.4%, CPI at 2.5% and RPI at 3.9%. Towards the end of the meeting UCEA made a final offer on pay; the headline pay offer is 1.5%. The boycott will also cover any assessment-related work such as exam invigilation and the administrative processing of marks. No progress was made on other elements of the joint union claim including the 35 hour week, or Scottish JNCHES. All member Briefing on New JNCHES negotiating round HE unions' claim 2022-23 [399kb]. pay Helene Fuld College of Nursing Mid-Career Median Salary: $95,600. The final JNCHES meeting of the 2021/22 negotiating round took place yesterday, Thursday 6 May. Branches will be kept informed of the outcome of the final meeting. Communication can always throw us curveballs, and many of us already feel off balance when money is involved. Delegates also voted for the ballots to be conducted in an 'aggregated' format, meaning that the 50% turnout threshold, and consequently which branches would be called to take action, would encompass the entire voting membership. A 1.5% increase over 2 years is in reality a steep real-terms pay cut, on top of over a decade of pay cuts. Potent cultural barriers still stand in the way, and those who hold significant power in institutions need to actively seek out ways to use it on behalf of those who dont. The dispute resolution process has not resulted in an improved offer but the fight is far from over. When we challenged employers to meet CPIH in August, they refused, saying that 'they did not have a mandate' to meet even their own preferred inflation rate. American Indian and Alaska Native women earn $25,884 less a year, $1,035,360 less over a 40-year career span. UCU general secretary Jo Grady told members that the delegates who voted for the marking boycott 'did not do so lightly and the fact that we are threatening our first marking boycott in a UK-wide dispute in many years shows just how angry members are - and how intransigent employers have been'. In a message to members on the eve of the action, UCU general secretaryJo Grady said the employers' treatment of their staff is causing material and reputational damage to the sector. Seventeen further dates of strike action have been called for February and March to follow on from the next strike date of 1 February. Understand the big picture, he said. UCU's higher education committee (HEC) will consider the conference resolutions on Friday 1 July, and this will be preceded by a branch delegate meeting where branches can feed in to the HEC's decisions. UCU's higher education committee (HEC) decided to escalate action short of a strike (ASOS) over the Four Fights and USS disputes. The union wont say how much it has compromised on its demand for 13.5 per cent increase over three years for Treasury Board employees, and a 22.5 per cent raise over three years for CRA workers. Unite attended the first meeting as an observer. For more information and for resources to help get the vote out, please go to our HE disputes. Jennifer Dannals of Dartmouth Colleges Tuck School of Business, and Nir Halevy and Margaret Neale, both of Stanford Universitys Graduate School of Business, analyzed data from 2,552 MBA students and executives It's too early to say whether UCEA will make an offer that represents a meaningful attempt to address these vitally important matters. Ballot papers will be sent via first class post. My colleague Anna Renzetti, an assistant director in the career and professional development center at the University of Utah, shared a similar account. It's important to note that UCEA have not set out their position in a written offer at this time. Members in striking branches are being asked to walk out on 21 & 22 February, and from 28 February to 2 March in the following week. However, were an inflation-linked offer to be made, we would want to hear it, alongside discussions about how we improve non pay related elements of our dispute. WebInstitutional CHRIS Contacts Period Leavers Report Leavers in the Next Calendar Month Limit of Tenure/Funding Control Maternity Absences NMC Registrations ending in the UCEA was also unwilling to engage with the pay-related elements of our claim, including workload, job security, and pay equality. New strike dates have been announced in the dispute over pay and conditions. Oakland has proposed a pay increase to all faculty of 5.25% over three years; however, the union has not accepted this. 4. The discussions will begin on Monday 13 February. Members at 150 universities will strike for three days in November over attacks on pay, working conditions and pensions it was announced today. UCU's national disputes committee (NDC) gave its support to UCU's continuing strike action. PSAC says it has compromised on wages as strike continues UCU branches have been asked to call emergency general meetings before 30 June after key decisions over the major issues facing the sector were taken at the recent higher education sector conference. Dont negotiate until a firm offer (in writing) has been extended 2. Show your accomplishments and progression in your role and market value data to support your negotiation. At the end of our conversation, I asked Dinuka how he learned to negotiate. The report also reminds us that casualisation is an equality issue, with women and BAME staff disproportionately likely to be on various forms of insecure contract. There is no excuse not to restore pay to acceptable levels and provide secure pensions for university staff, UCU said today. This falls some way short of the headline demands on pay. Offers and Negotiation This year the onus is on UCEA to demonstrate leadership and to match the union's ambition, by making an offer that addresses the decline in member's pay and the cost of living squeeze, tackling pay inequality, reducing workloads and casualisation, as well as dealing with structural issues with the pay spine. In the pay and working conditions ballot, the yes vote for strike action was 85.6% and the turnout was 56.4%. There is real pressure on new JNCHES to deliver for and reward staff in 2021/22. Below is our jointly agreed statement and you can read the response from our general secretary here. On a turnout of over 57%, breaking the 50% threshold set by anti-union legislation, around 80% of members who voted said yes to taking industrial action over pay and conditions claim: National pay & conditions ballot scrutineer's report [276kb] WebTop Two-Year Schools for Salary Potential. Pay in Scotland. For staff at Levels 1-3, the University Executive Board has agreed to implement the current pay offer with effect from October salaries. We have the expectation that our employers will show respect for the contributions made by staff by offering rates of pay which are competitive internationally, rather than deprioritising staff in favour of other types of expenditure. UCU's report mapping the extent of precarious employment in HE has been updated, revealing just how persistent the problem is, institution by institution. A marking and assessment boycott commenced today at 145 UK universities after employers failed to produce an improved offer in the pay & conditions dispute.