Industrial Action, Staff Strike Over Pay. Cambridge University must address the pay of essential workers, who have voted to strike. “Any strike action will bring substantial disruption to services for students and staff including building closures. I’d urge the university to come back to the negotiating table with a better offer worthy of our members’ […]
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Imperial College: Branch report on local pay campaign 2022-23 STRIKE! BBC’s Faisal Islam meets Imperial College Unite BS, Mark Keeping (baseball cap) and UCU’s Tom Pike, at the official picket, on 23rd February 2023 Membership Up! The Imperial branch of Unite has seen an increase in membership of over 16% since September last year, primarily […]
National pay negotiations, 2023-2024: an update. ACAS As you may be aware all the education unions in these negotiations declared a dispute with UCEA, the employers’ association, over the proposed pay increase for 2023-24. In February negotiations began under the auspices of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) with the unions, in good faith, […]
Unite vows to defend workers from Tory attack on the right to strike A “predictable” attack from a Government that wants the country to take a pay cut Commenting on the transport secretary’s plans to introduce the Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “This is just another predictable attack on trade unions from […]

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 […]
Wednesday 10 November 2021 Salami Slicing The University of Cambridge, one of the wealthiest and most illustrious institutions in the country, has been accused of ‘salami slicing’ over its plans to outsource up to 50 maintenance and estates’ workers to private companies. Unite the union said that if the proposal was completed by 1 April next year […]
BA Cargo: Stop fire and rehire
SOS! Support the #BACargo strike this Christmas25 December to 2 January. British Airways is doing it again, still tearing up the contracts and raiding the wages of loyal UK workers. Firing and rehiring and betraying Britain. This time it’s the airline’s cargo workers who are in the line of fire. Now following the collapse of […]