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

www.tees.ac.uk/sections/news/pressreleases_story.cfm?story_id=4579&this_issue_title=February%202014&this_issue=249