UNISON sets out higher education pay targets

UNISON vowed to work with other unions for an end to poverty pay in the country’s universities, its higher education service group decided today. Delegates at the union’s higher education conference in Chester voted this morning for a pay campaign to include: a pay rise of £1,500 a year or 7.5% – whichever is higher; for all employers to pay the real living wage and work towards a minimum rate of £10 an hour in the sector; eradicating the gender pay gap by 2020; an end to zero-hour contracts. And it called for the campaign to be backed by the possibility of escalating, lawful industrial action co-ordinated with other higher education unions. This followed debate on a number of motions highlighting areas of concern and campaigning priorities on pay. The high pay of senior managers, including vice chancellors, was highlighted recently in news reports around the vice chancellor at the University of Bath. And it was a recurring feature in the pay debate. At Bath, for instance, the pay ratio between the vice chancellor and the lowest paid staff members is 30 to one. That means that, by the end of the first day in a month, the vice chancellor has earned more than the lowest paid worker at the university will get for the entire month’s work. Cymru/Wales delegate Carol Dumfy told delegates she was “sick of being preached at by university managements about how we are all in this together – while vice chancellors and other senior management seem to have found the govern...
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