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The University of East Anglia (UEA) has scrapped its commitment to the real living wage for its lowest-paid employees, UNISON reveals today. University bosses told around 300 cleaners, nursery staff and other workers on the lowest salaries today that they will not receive an expected pay increase next month. The real living wage is independently […]

University of East Anglia (UEA) bosses seem unable to answer the most simple questions about how they got sucked into a financial black hole, UNISON warns today. The union, which represents hundreds of cleaners, librarians, security guards and other professional services staff at the university, said UEA leaders appear to have no plan for getting […]

HE joint-unions and the employer, UCEA, have released a statement as they move into time-limited talks

Staff at the two universities are taking a third round of strike action over pay

  The current industrial action has not been postponed.  Senior national officer for higher education Ruth Smith said: “We are pleased the employers have agreed to enter the Acas process in order to […]

Shadow higher education minister Matt Western promises positive, long-lasting reform under a Labour government

As UNISON members continue to take strike action, the union is asking for donations to its strike fund

“We meet at yet another really difficult time in higher education,” Mr Richards, who was once the union’s head of education, told delegates. “We’ve had a […]

Higher Education workers from across the UK showed solidarity with staff at Norwich’s University of East Anglia today. They took time out from UNISON’s Higher Education conference to send a clear message to UEA bosses to stop cuts which could lop up to 20% off budgets. The university has been scant on the details of […]

Higher education workers have suffered year-on-year pay cuts and this offer fails to offer any improvement. While […]