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• Higher education members vote to reject pay offer

  10-06-2022 16:00
  
  UNISON has given notification of a formal dispute with the higher education employer, the University and Colleges Employers Association, after a consultative ballot of members showed that 83% of members across the UK reject the 3% pay offer and wish to move forward into an industrial action ballot.
  The national turnout was 36.2%, but 11 branches had a turnout of over 50%, with 17 others managing between 40 and 50%.
  The next steps will see branches have the opportunity to opt out of an industrial
  
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• Blog: Concentrating on the issues that matter

  10-06-2022 15:14
  
  It’s been another troubled week for the prime minister. He met his no-confidence vote with the usual bluster and spin. The thumping from his own party is another huge dent in his authority. To ‘move on’, we’ve been given a set of vacuous and unworkable housing ‘plans’ that do nothing to solve the urgent cost of living crisis.
  Our national delegate conference (NDC) opens next week in Brighton and we’ll be firmly focused on the crisis at hand. Inflation is
  
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