Higher education pay
The UCU lecturers and university staff union has declared a formal dispute with the UCEA higher education employers body, after members voted to reject its 1% pay offer in a consultative ballot.
While most staff would receive a 1% pay increase under the terms offered, the lowest paid points on the nationally-agreed scale for higher education staff would receive higher increases of between 1.2% and 2.65%. This would ensure that all directly employed staff working a 35-hour week would receive the equivalent of the voluntary Living Wage figure of £7.85 an hour.
UCU will hold consultative meetings with branch reps in September to consider next steps.
The UCEA offer has also been rejected by Unite, but accepted by the GMB and UNISON.
www.unison.org.uk/news/higher-education-members-vote-to-accept-pay-offer