Advice, help, and workplace news. 18 June 2022 – TUC MARCH & RALLY for CHANGE London & Eastern Region members – we’re counting on you! This is the first major demonstration by the trade union movement in many years. And it’s taking place in London – a tube or bus ride away for many. Start […]
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Statement on 2022 Pay Offer…
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PAY UPDATE
National Pay Negotiation for the 2022-2023 pay award has already started. The initial proposal is 3%, which isn’t good enough to cover the costs of living in Cambridge with inflation being over 8% and rising. Also, we workers at Cambridge University lost 20% of our pay in the last 12 years, this means that experienced […]
Update on Cambridge branch campaign to stop outsourcing Taken from March 2022 Regional newsletter The Cambridge branch intends to loudly fight the University’s foot-dragging on protecting directly employed staff and their lack of trustworthiness over outsourcing every step of the way. As you will be aware Cambridge University Unite branch has been firmly opposing the […]
Advice and help in the workplace HAVE YOU VOTED? Use your voice, use your vote. A number of HE institution branches in our region are now balloting members on taking industrial action. The dispute is over the imposition by HE bosses of the rejected national pay increase of just 1.5% (for most staff) for 2021-22. […]
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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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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 […]