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• Higher education staff reject 1.5% pay offer

  17-05-2021 16:30
  
  UNISON’s higher education service group executive have met and rejected the final pay offer made by HE national employers UCEA.
  Earlier this year, UNISON joined other education unions to submit a claim for a £2,500 increase, and a minimum wage of £10 per hour, or £10.85 for people in London.
  The final pay offer made by UCEA is a 1.5% increase for the majority of HE staff. HE staff on lower pay points have been offered higher percentage increases on a sliding scale, betwee
  
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• Unions call on secondary schools and colleges to retain masks

  17-05-2021 11:55
  
  As further easing of lockdown happens in England today (Monday), UNISON has joined with other education unions to call on English secondary schools and colleges to continue the policy of staff and pupils wearing masks after the government at Westminster scrapped it.
  Together with NASUWT, GMB, NEU and UNITE, the union says that there is a “strong case” for continuing with the current arrangements, and recommends that schools and colleges use the flexibility in the new guidance from th
  
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• Unions call on schools and colleges to retain masks

  17-05-2021 11:55
  
  As further easing of lockdown happens in England today (Monday), UNISON has joined with other education unions to call on English schools and colleges to continue the policy of staff and pupils wearing masks after the government at Westminster scrapped it.
  Together with NASUWT, GMB, NEU and UNITE, the union says that there is a “strong case” for continuing with the current arrangements, and recommends that schools and colleges use the flexibility in the new guidance from the Departme
  
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