Unite strikes a landmark agreement with one of the UK's largest #NHS trusts to end the two tier workforce. Covid has put the treatment of NHS workers in the spotlight. Unite will now ramp-up pressure on other trusts – they can no longer look the other way. https://t.co/98USuKdkSg pic.twitter.com/uBWBdvGE0E — Sharon Graham (@UniteSharon) March 3, […]
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UNITE WINS!
Some recent pay dispute wins, if we fight we can win! Lancashire bus strikes called off after drivers accept improved pay offer The threat of strike action involving bus drivers employed by Stagecoach in south Lancashire has ended after members of Unite, the UK’s leading union accepted a vastly improved pay offer./news-events/news/2021/october/lancashire-bus-strikes-called-off-after-drivers-accept-improved-pay-offer/ Strike fears on […]
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Solidarity From Dundee
Dundee University UNITE branch posted this message of solidarity with our fight against outsourcing… Cambridge University Unite think Outsourcing SUCKS!(and so do we!). Cambridge University have proposed outsourcing of key professional services staff and the Unite branch there have begun an excellent campaign to show just how much Outsourcing SUCKS! This author is particularly impressed by their excellent […]
Unite Newsletter – January 2022 Working to protect staff in Cambridge University 2021/22 Pay dispute: Preparation for an industrial action ballot As reported by us in August last year, despite all the higher education Unions rejecting the offer, the Universities national bargaining body (UCEA) recommended that UK universities impose the 1.5% pay rise. It was […]
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Stagecoach, workers win!
https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2022/january/stagecoach-cambus-workers-vote-to-accept-a-significant-pay-rise-says-unite/ Top Bus News! About 400 workers at Cambus – Stagecoach’s Cambridge division – who have not had a pay rise since April 2019, have voted for a new pay package which sees increases of between 7.4 and 12.2 per cent over an 18 month period, Unite the union said today (Friday 28 January). Unite […]
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Friday Update 24/1/22
It’s not Friday, it’s not much of an update, but I’m still here! Friday Update! Rob and Vern are now at Chemistry, but we are still at the university and still UNITE reps. ra266@cam.ac.uk Outsourcing… Thanks to your efforts with the demonstrations, the University has decided to look at the issue and has set up […]
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Friday Update 22/21/21
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PAY BALLOT
Pay Ballot Check Your Email! DO IT! DO IT NOW! This months branch (Dec 2021) voted to ballot our full membership over strike action due to the consistently poor pay deals we have been getting for years. You should have received your ballot in your email if not get in touch at CUBranch@unitetheunion.org Voting closes […]
OUTSOURCING SUCKS Outsourcing – Cambridge Uni lowlights? In recent times, especially in London institutions, outsourced staff have found themselves being ‘insourced” as the high cost, lack of control and the unfairness of having staff working in an institution for anotheremployer under worse terms and conditions than direct employees has begun to reflect very badly on […]