...Archived News...
18th May 2012
Branch Meeting & AGM will be held on 28th June at 12:30 in the Williamson Rooms, Biology H Block.
18th April 2012
Higher education pay offer for 2012/13 is ?derisory?, says Unite
Unite is dismayed at the opening offer of 0.5 per cent made by the employers in the higher education pay talks affecting 148 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the UK.
Unite is angry that the ?derisory? offer for 2012/13 by the Universities and Colleges Employers? Association (UCEA) comes hard on the heels of a similar 0.5 per cent offer made for the last financial year ? an offer that Unite still disputes.
Unite National Officer for Education, Mike Robinson said: "This derisory offer follows the lousy offer of 0.5 per cent in 2011.
?In real terms, this latest offer is not even in line with inflation and represents a slap in the face for hard working university staff who are experiencing increased workloads as student numbers have risen.
?Unite reluctantly suspended industrial action on the 2011 offer to enter into these talks ? but our good faith has been undermined.
?If the 2012 negotiations don't deal with real term pay losses, which even the UCEA admits is about seven per cent drop in pay levels, then these negotiations are heading for the buffers.?
More talks are scheduled between the unions and UCEA for 30 April and 22 May.
Unite represents 20,000 staff - from professors to porters - at HEIs and was the only union to have rejected the offer of £150-a-year for all grades to run from 1 August last year for 2011/12.
Unite members voted for industrial action, short of strike action, at the end of last year ? and were sticking to the letter of their contracts with no working outside their contractual hours.
This has now been suspended in the hope that this year?s pay talks will result in a substantial pay rise.
3rd February 2012
Unite Press Release
Unite university staff work-to-rule over ?lousy? pay offer
University staff, members of Unite, are working-to-rule in protest at the ?lousy? pay offer of £150.
Unite represents 20,000 staff - from professors to porters - at Britain?s Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) - and is the only union to have rejected the derisory offer of £150-a-year for all grades to run from 1 August last year for 2011/12.
Unite national officer for education, Mike Robinson said: ?Our members voted for industrial action, short of strike action, over this lousy deal at the end of last year ? and are sticking to the letter of their contracts with no working outside their contractual hours.?
?Our members have withdrawn the goodwill and flexibility that is so vital for the running of an academic institution.?
?The HEIs - represented by the Universities and Colleges Employers? Association (UCEA) - can well afford to be more generous at a time of soaring household bills for working people. For example, Imperial College, London has given its staff £500-a-year more on all scales.?
?Unite will be boycotting future meetings with the UCEA and will be asking Shabana Mahmood, the shadow business minister not to attend a HEI strategic conference.?
In a letter to UCEA Chief Executive, Jocelyn Prudence, Mike Robinson said: ?Unite members will also be asked to raise the profile of the low offer on pay for 2011 in their own HEIs, as publically as possible.?
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Click here  to see a copy of the letter from Mike Robinson to Jocelyn Prudence, UCEA Chief Executive.
23rd November 2011
The result of the national ballot for industrial action over the pay offer was as follows:
QUESTION: ARE YOU PREPARED TO TAKE PART IN STRIKE ACTION?
- Number voting YES 1,465 (47.8% of valid vote)
- Number voting NO 1,601 (52.2% of valid vote)
QUESTION: ARE YOU PREPARED TO TAKE PART IN INDUSTRIAL ACTION SHORT OF A STRIKE?
- Number voting YES 2,178 (70.5% of valid vote)
- Number voting NO 910 (29.5% of valid vote)
Click here for further details of the ballot. Also further information from our National Officer, and union advice should you come into contact with a picket line for the 30th November Public Sector Pension Dispute,
27th October 2011
Click here for the latest update from Mike Robinson regarding the 2011 Pay Offer. See also the letter to UCEA Chief Executive Jocelyn Prudence.
30th September 2011
Click here for a letter from National Officer, Mike Robinson, regarding the Higher Education Consultative Pay Ballot.
28th July 2011
Click here for details of UCEA?s 2011 final pay offer.
3rd February 2011
The 2010 pay offer of 0.4% has been accepted by Unite. Staff will receive the uplift and backdated pay from August 1st in their February 2011 pay. Click here for an update from National Officer, Mike Robinson.
29th November 2010
The Branch Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 25th November in the Williamson Rooms, Biology. This was followed by a branch meeting.
29th October 2010
The result of the ballot over the pay offer of 0.4% was as follows:
- Those wishing to accept the offer 36.8%
- Those wishing to reject the offer 63.1%
Click here for further details.
6th August 2010
Details of the final 2010 pay offer of 0.4% are here . See also the Unite press release and UCEA news release .
27th May 2010
Click here for the latest on the 2010 pay negotiations.
12th March 2010
Branch Meeting & AGM was held on 11th March in the Williamson Rooms, Biology.
AGM Minutes
Branch Meeting Minutes
28th January 2010
Click here for the latest circular from Mike Robinson, Higher Education National Officer. Details of the 2009-2010 pay agreement are here .
5th January 2010
The provisional result of the national ballot over the final pay offer of 0.5% was as follows:
- Those wishing to accept the offer 84%
- Those wishing to reject the offer 14%
- Notified abstentions 1%
Click here for the latest circular from Mike Robinson.
30th November 2009
There will be a Branch Meeting on Tuesday 8th December in the Derwent Terrace Room to vote on whether or not to accept the offer from UCEA of a 0.5% increase in pay for 2009 (backdated to August 2009) and the proposed document from ACAS on job security. See the circular from Mike Robinson .
16th November 2009
Update from Mike Robinson regarding the 2009 pay offer and ACAS discussions:
13.11.09 2009 Pay and ACAS discussions.pdf
19th October 2009
Latest circular from Mike Robinson, Higher Education National Officer, regarding the 2009 pay and conditions negotiations:
15.10.09 Pay and associated items.pdf
18th August 2009
The result of the national consultative ballot on the New JNCHES negotiations, a vote on whether or not to accept a 0.5% uplift in pay contained within the UCEA final offer and accept UCEA's refusal to negotiate on job security, was as follows:
- Percentage of members voting to reject the offer 83%
- Percentage of members voting to accept the offer 15%
- Percentage of members wishing to record an abstention 2%
Here is a letter from Mike Robinson explaining the current situation, and also copies of letters sent to UCEA Chief Executive Jocelyn Prudence and UCEA Chair, Professor Sir Bill Wakeham .
17th August 2009
Branch meeting was held on Tuesday 11th August in the Williamson Rooms, Biology.
Click here for the minutes of the meeting.
31st July 2009
Click on the link to read the letter from our National Officer, Mike Robinson, concerning the current position regarding the 2009 pay and conditions negotiations.
HE Letter to members July 2009.pdf
20th July 2009
The University is proposing changes to the University of York Pension Fund, and is currently consulting with Pension Fund members and eligible employees before making a final decision. The consultation period will run until the end of August.
Information on the proposed changes is available at www.york.ac.uk/admin/finance/pensions/.
26th May 2009
Latest information on pay negotiations - 19th May JNCHES pay meeting.
HE Pay Meeting outcome JNCHES 19.5.09.pdf
29th April 2009
Click the link below for a circular from Mike Robinson regarding the 27th April JNCHES pay meeting.
28.4.09 Pay Meeting outcome JNCHES 27.4.09.pdf
26th February 2009
The Annual General Meeting was held on 25th February in the Williamson rooms, Biology H Block.
Click here for the agenda.
Click here for the minutes from the meeting.
16th October 2008
The October 2008 national pay award (the greater of 2.5% or the RPI figure for September 2008) will be 5% (September's RPI figure from the Office for National Statistics).
A University update on the pay award can be found <here>.
6th August 2008
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25th June 2008
Branch meeting was held on 25th June in the Williamson Rooms, Biology.
Click here for the agenda.
Click here for the minutes from the meeting.
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20th February 2008
Branch AGM was held on 20th February in the Williamson Rooms, Biology.
Click here for the agenda.
Click here for the minutes from the meeting.
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