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• Formal dispute lodged with higher education employers

  02-07-2021 12:16
  
  UNISON’s higher education service group executive (SGE) have lodged a formal dispute with HE employers after the outcome of the pay offer consultation for 1 August 2021.
  The pay offer was a 1.5% increase for all members on pay point 22 and above, with staff on the lower pay points between 3 to 21 being offered pay increased on a sliding scale between 3.6% to 1.54%.
  Results from the consultation show that a clear majority of members have rejected the employers’ final pay offer.
  The SG
  
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• School funding formula takes from the poor and gives to rich, says UNISON 

  02-07-2021 01:01
  
  Responding to a National Audit Office report published today (Friday) that found real-terms cuts in funding for some of the country’s most deprived schools, UNISON assistant general secretary Jon Richards said:  
  “Despite promises to level up education funding, the government has acted like Robin Hood in reverse, taking from the poor and giving to the rich. 
  “The chronic funding gaps that schools face are clear. Any cuts affecting the country’s mo
  
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