Another Living Wage uni
Teesside University has become the latest university to become a Living Wage employer.
The university has agreed to pay the Living Wage national rate, of £7.65 an hour, to its lowest-paid employees — numbering 162 — from 1 April 2014.
Denise Ward, joint branch secretary and chair of UNISON’s higher education service group executive, has spearheaded a long campaign on campus alongside her union colleagues in UCU to make Teesside a Living Wage employer.
Ward said: “Every member of staff plays a vital role and it is through their hard work that Teesside won University of the Year in 2009-10 — the first modern university ever to do so.”
www.unison.org.uk/news/teesside-university-becomes-a-living-wage-employer