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• Joint union statement: Acas higher education talks

  24-02-2023 18:37
  
  Today (Friday 24 February) the five unions UCU, UNISON, Unite, EIS and GMB, representing staff working in UK higher education confirmed that talks via the conciliation service Acas will continue into next week.
  The joint unions have continued to push employers, represented by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), on the issues of pay, workload, casualisation and equality pay gaps
  Some progress has been made in establishing agreed terms of reference for negotiations on revie
  
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• Blog: Celebrating our Black LGBT+ activists

  24-02-2023 18:17
  
  This month we lit up our UNISON Centre in Pride colours to celebrate all our LGBT+ members during LGBT+ History Month.
  As this is UNISON’s year of Black workers, I also want to celebrate our Black LGBT+ activists, both from our past and present, who’ve led the way in the struggle for equality and LGBT+ rights both within UNISON and across the UK.
  Rizwan Sheikh was a leading activist in lesbian and gay, and Black members groups. He became a senior activist in his region and then natio
  
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