JNCHES negotiations 2022-23: joint union statement, 4 April 2022 [122kb], The higher education joint trade union claim 2022/23 has been agreed by the five HE trade unions; UNISON, Unite, EIS, GMB and UCU, and has been submitted to the employer's representatives at UCEA in advance of the first JNCHES negotiating meeting on 30 March: A 1.5% increase over 2 years is in reality a steep real-terms pay cut, on top of over a decade of pay cuts. In the pay and working conditions ballot, the yes vote for strike action was 85.6% and the turnout was 56.4%. UUP 2022 Contract Negotiations News. That number is impacted by schools like the University at Buffalo and Niagara University, the only two local institutions who pay Please read the joint union statement below. Following a further round of talks at Acas, the joint unions today issued this statement: Talks between UCEA and the HE trades unions continue. UK higher education - a workforce in crisis [217kb], based on a survey of almost 7,000 university staff at over 100 institutions. She negotiated with leadership to secure higher pay for our graphic designer and a leader among our student workers. This was a marginally improved offer on pay which will mean 3% for UCU members and progressively more for the lowest paid. Select whether you're salaried or hourly paid and enter your details to see how your workload affects your pay. This means that from Thursday 20 April members are asked to cease undertaking all summative marking and associated assessment activities/duties. According to UH Administration, all 11-month faculty are tentatively scheduled to receive their 3.72% salary increase on their July 20, 2022 pay date while all 9-month faculty are scheduled to receive their 3.72% increase on their August 20, 2022 pay date. For UCU represented grades its worth 1.5%. Those staff have got universities through the pandemic and are continuing to work harder than ever before under more difficult circumstances the employers need to recognise this.. You can get an excellent introductory course free from the American Association of University Women and a range of postgrad financial advice (free and paid) from Personal Finance for PhDs. JNCHES negotiations 2022-23: joint union statement, 26 April 2022 [28kb], An initial offer was received from the employers on 21 April. Members have backed strike action in a ballot over pay and working conditions. Telephone: 020 7756 2500, Copyright UCU document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); The full HE pay claim for 2021/22 can be foundhere [PDF]. UCEA was also unwilling to engage with the pay-related elements of our claim, including workload, job security, and pay equality. Strike action will run for three days from Wednesday 1 December to Friday 3 December, and the higher education committee has decided to call action short of a strike (ASOS) from 1 December, starting with working to contract only. As a person of color, he said, I always got the underhand By necessity, I said, No more. If Im going to bring value, I need to communicate that. A new report released today by the Education Support charity has exposed the reality of work-related stress in universities. SALARY negotiations for Give your manager plenty of time to discuss with you and then enter into the request process for you. Our NHS colleagues have been offered 3%. The initial offer was 2.75%. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) recently met the sector unions for a final national pay negotiating New figures today show the scale of pay cuts faced by university staff has been laid bare as new data showed 12 years of below inflation pay offers have left staff thousands of pounds worse off. Universities will see further strike action in February unless employers meet UCU's demands over pay & conditions. by Kristen Senz. At the latest negotiating meeting the employers continue to insist on a real-terms pay cut for 2023/4 which fails to address the 2022/23 dispute. A third wave of strike action over the employers' failure to negotiate over deteriorating pay & conditions began today. The cookies we use are completely safe and don't contain any sensitive information. University staff renew strike mandate with historic ballot result, UCU's Higher Education Committee has decided that the proposals in the pay dispute should go out to a full member consultation - this will commence on Tuesday 4 April 2023:Formal consultation on employers' proposals and announcing our reballot result. Following that meeting of HEC we will communicate further with members including details on a clear timetable for the ballots and any resulting industrial action, as well as how they can get involved in the campaign. [295kb]. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you're happy to receive all cookies on our website. You can see the institutions involved here. This week higher education unions met with the employers' organisation UCEA who refused to improve their derisory pay offer for 2022-23 of 3%. Unite attended the first meeting as an observer. UCEA informed us that they did have a figure that they would have presented to us as an opening offer if we had agreed to stop industrial action related to the 2022-3 pay dispute during the negotiations. On the eve of the national dispute ballots opening, UCU general secretary Jo Grady has emailed HE members: Your ballot papers arrive this week: vote YES to industrial actionJo also spoke with student newspaper The Tab about why UCU members are taking action, asking why 'university managers, year after year, are happy to let chaos reign in the sector'. UCU's special higher education sector conference has voted for a marking and assessment boycott at 41 universities across the UK, a move which could prevent students from receiving their grades. At that meeting the employers asked us to agree to open the 2023-4 pay round early. She reported: 'The employers'position is that the 2022-23 negotiations over pay, during which we had a 3% pay increase imposed, have closed. Ballot papers will be sent via first class post. When negotiations have ended, any agreed annual salary increase (known as the annual pay award) is applied to all salaries covered by pay bargaining from 1 August. WebUCEA member institutions decide individually whether they will participate in each negotiating round to address the uplift to be applied to the national pay spine, covering Yet, over the same period, staff salaries have fallen in real terms. These groups have not delivered real change for members in the past and we have no reason to believe the situation will be any different this year. A fellow career coach reminded me that work schedules are sometimes negotiable, as well, citing a friend who negotiated a four-day workweek by arguing that extra time off would aid her creative work for her employer. WebTop Two-Year Schools for Salary Potential. Everyone can learn to negotiate better, but institutional leaders may need to advocate on behalf of job seekers and junior colleagues to advance equity in compensation. Oakland University offers all employees outstanding health benefits. These conditions directly impact our rate of pay and working conditions, and should form a crucial part of our yearly bargaining round. Branches will be updated on the written offer as soon as possible. Also employers were reminded that staff had not had a pay rise since August 2019 and employers offered 'zero' uplift last year. .positionleft.inlineimage, .positionright.inlineimage { max-width: 49% !important; margin-bottom: 1.5em !important; } .positionleft.inlineimage { margin-right: 0.5% !important; } .positionright.inlineimage { margin-left: 0.5% !important; } @media(max-width:600px) { .positionleft.inlineimage, .positionright.inlineimage { max-width: 100% !important; margin: 0 0 1em 0 !important; } #emergencybanner {margin-bottom: -1em !important;} }. UCU general secretary Jo Grady said 'Our message to the employers for these three days is very clear - put a proper offer on the table or this is just the start of our fight back.'. The claim, which among other demands covers UCU's core Four Fight demands; a pay rise for all that is progressive, tackling intersectional pay inequality, dealing with excessive workloads, stress and mental health linked to Covid-19, and addressing wide spread precarious contracts and a specific claim for GTA's. UCU said the ballots, which close on Friday 8 April, will pave the way for action to continue throughout the remainder of 2022. 'We have called on employers to demonstrate good faith during this negotiating period by not pursuing punitive pay deductions as a result of ASOS that would cause UCU branches to consider strike action in response. UCU today confirmed it will move ahead with plans to ballot staff in disputes over pay & conditions and pensions. The New JNCHES committee is composed of the five higher education trade unions UNISON, UCU, Unite, GMB and EIS along with UCEA, which represents university employers in the UK. Work continues with a further meeting scheduled with ACAS on 14 March 2023. Last month, UCUsuccessfullyrenewed its industrial action mandate, allowing industrial action to be called for a further six months. So, we have no option but to escalate and try to win change through collective action.' UCEA was left in no doubt about how strongly members feel and the need for real change to be made. Intense preparations for the 'four fights' ballot is under way. We expect UCEA, as a representative of our employers, to demonstrate a commitment to staff in HE by improving their offer. The meeting was adjourned at the employers' request and we look forward to the employers returning to negotiations as soon as possible. The cookies we use are completely safe and don't contain any sensitive information. Background 2020-21 round meetings This offer was also marked by the lack of ambition in UCEA's proposals to tackle the other UCU core demands relating to inequality, workloads and casualisation. Subscribe for free to Inside Higher Eds newsletters, featuring the latest news, opinion and great new careers in higher education delivered to your inbox. Silence in negotiation shows confidence. General secretary Jo Grady told members the results are another powerful signal of members' commitment to address the issues of low pay, inequality, workload intensification and precarious employment. There were constructive discussions about developing a way forward and both sides agreed to enter into urgent negotiations between now and 31January 2023with a view to resolving both the 2022/23 pay round,on which the current dispute is based,and the 2023/24 pay round. Please get in touch with the UCU press team if you would like to be involved! Then I ended by saying that Id be willing to discontinue discussions with my current institution if we were able to come to an agreement on the final sticking points of salary and start-up funding. The committee also agreed to re-ballot staff at all 150 universities to renew UCU's mandate and allow the union to call action well into 2023, including a marking and assessment boycott from April, unless the disputes are settled. We were disappointed that UCEA did not bring an improved offer, despite our consistent communications on areas which are lacking. UCU general secretary Jo Grady today announced an additional day of strike action on 15 March 2023. Negotiators expect parity between Calvin might have made more in another role, but he was very interested in working with the team and culture he already knew at Waterloo. First negotiations see the employers agree that there needs to be a rise in pay for hard-working higher education staff. The joint unions have responded by issuing a statement which said 'in the context of the real suffering we know our members are currently experiencing, we found this to be a woefully inadequate response': We are also planning to produce a series of videos which capture the lives of members in higher education, and how they are affected by degraded pay, casualisation, equality failings and more. Members are asked to please keep engaged with branch meetings which will feed into the conference. The joint union claim also included a demand for a UK-wide agreement on Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs). UCU's report mapping the extent of precarious employment in HE has been updated, revealing just how persistent the problem is, institution by institution. The gender gap in pay has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past 20 years or so. UCU has warned hardline university bosses that they could be hit with additional strike action if they go ahead with 100% deductions in pay for staff taking action short of a strike (ASOS): Staff warn rogue university bosses to prepare for more strike action over pay deductions. An escalation of action short of strike is also planned. A marking and assessment boycott commenced today at 145 UK universities after employers failed to produce an improved offer in the pay & conditions dispute. 1. The joint unions have indicated that the opening offer is insufficient and that more needs to be brought to the final JNCHES negotiation meeting on 6 May 2021. Powered by GOSS iCM. 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Its about making a case for your value to the employer -- showing how you will excel at meeting the specific needs theyve expressed based on your accomplishments and skills. Then, without the join unions' agreement, the employers posted what was referred to as a 'joint statement' on their website, even though this had not been jointly agreed. As you know, we can have 18 UCPEA observers at every negotiation session. Accepting a salary somewhat lower than you asked for is not a failure if you decide the job will serve your values and strengthen your career in other important ways. Higher Education News, Opinion and Careers | Weekdays, Quick Summary of the Week's Higher Ed News | Fridays, Admissions and Enrollment News, Opinion and Careers | Mondays, Diversity News, Opinion and Career Advice | Tuesdays, Student Success News, Ideas, Advice and Inspiration | Weekdays, On ChatGPT: Confessions of an Anonymous Lecturer, Postdocs Need People, Especially Each Other, Strategies for Career Exploration in Uncertain Times. The second of the two dispute resolution meetings ended last Friday. Internally, know the salary request schedule of your organization. WebBegin the negotiation process by asking if the job offer is negotiable. UCU |University and College Union, Carlow Street, London NW1 7LH ballot staff in disputes over pay & conditions and pensions, University marking boycott begins despite 'lock out' threats, marking and assessment boycott will begin from Monday 23 May, voted for a marking and assessment boycott, thirty-six institutions have voted to continue strike action, with 74% of members voting YES, 'there is no doubt whatsoever about members' commitment, warned of a staff exodus from UK universities, UK higher education - a workforce in crisis [217kb], is causing material and reputational damage to the sector, The new ballots over deteriorating pay and conditions, UK universities to face five more days of strike action before Easter, Strike action over pay and conditions continues next week at UK universities, there was now a 'nationally orchestrated move by employers to bully and intimidate UCU members', Staff warn rogue university bosses to prepare for more strike action over pay deductions, Official statistics show why university staff are taking strike action, UCU general secretary Jo Grady has also written to members on the action here, Universities will see strike action next month unless employers meet pension and pay demands, Strike action from February in the USS and Four Fights disputes, another 12 universities have voted in favour of joining industrial action, Jo Grady told members the results are another powerful signal, University strikes begin after bosses refuse to budge on pensions, pay & working conditions, Huge numbers of staff and students on campus picket lines up and down the country, Vice-chancellor pay exposes 'cavernous' gap between staff & management, UCU writes to university bosses setting out how to avoid pre-Christmas campus strikes, latest from the general secretary on next steps, Big mandate for strike action at UK universities over pay & working conditions, Jo Grady said this report should cause every vice chancellor in the sector to hang their heads in shame, the extent of precarious employment in HE, wrote to members on our demands for sector-wide change, University staff pay cut by 20%, new figures show, Your ballot papers arrive this week: vote YES to industrial action, Jo also spoke with student newspaper The Tab, the timetable for action on both the pay and USS disputes, special higher education sector conference (HESC), special sector conference on 9 September 2021, the employers' 1.5% pay offer is not god enough, You can read the full claim here. UCU's higher education committee (HEC) decided to escalate action short of a strike (ASOS) over the Four Fights and USS disputes. UCU has now received a full and final offer from UCEA, the employers' representatives, in respect of the 2022-23 pay round: The higher education committee has called a special sector conference on 9 September 2021 to discuss the current disputes in higher education, including those resulting from the JNCHES negotiating rounds. The employers indicated that it could support either a percentage uplift or a flat rate increase on all pay points, or a combination of these approaches. Vice-chancellors now need to urgently address the concerns of staff otherwise our 70,000 members will escalate this dispute into next year.'. The precise dates of the action will be confirmed next week: Universities to be hit with 18 days of strike action before April. Silence and listening and showing openness to listening is powerful. (In this excellent podcast episode, Cheeky Scientist CEO Isaiah Hankel walks through a number of negotiation scripts designed to counter many other conversational tactics hiring managers may employ.). Oakland has proposed a pay increase to all faculty of 5.25% over three years; however, the union has not accepted this. Members in thirty-six institutions have voted to continue strike action over the Four Fights pay and conditions disputes, with 38 meeting the threshold for taking action short of strike action. Remember, she added, never to inflate or exaggerate other offers., A new faculty member provided a particularly vivid picture of how they leveraged multiple offers: One of the strategies I used in the second negotiation phone call was that at the beginning, I started by talking about how I really like my current institution and that I knew [the hiring manager] knew I was also interviewing there. The report also reminds us that casualisation is an equality issue, with women and BAME staff disproportionately likely to be on various forms of insecure contract. That offer was rejected by members. Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women. House Republicans would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion, or suspend it until March 31, 2024, whichever occurs first. The proposals pave the way for the end the use of involuntary zero-hour contracts in higher education, and to agree new standards, frameworks and principles to tackle other forms of casualised contracts, reduce workloads and close equality pay gaps. In line with UCU represented staff, the pay award for Technical Services staff at Levels 4-7 has been implemented from 1 August 2022. The discussions will begin on Monday 13 February. In a message to members, UCU general secretary Jo Grady said 'Employers are doubling down on their completely unacceptable positions: another below-inflation pay offer, doing nothing on casualisation, workloads and inequality, and cutting USS members' guaranteed future pension benefits by 35% or more. (ii) A MAB beginning on April 17 to target all final/end of year summative assessments beginning that month. This distinction clarifies where the need for change lies. OConnell Rodriguezs website links to copious research suggesting that this is true -- its important to teach our students and junior colleagues to be skilled negotiators, but that alone will not end pay inequities. Branches are strongly encouraged to meet to debate motions and elect delegates. Ballots will open on Monday 18 October. Inflation has been rising rapidly since the start of this year. The joint unions are disappointed that while we turned up ready to negotiate in good faith, UCEA declined to put any offer on the table amidst a cost of living crisis which is creating hardship for higher education employees, despite admitting they do have money they could pay in February 2023. Its unfair and unrealistic to expect folks to overcome systemic problems solely through individual efforts. UNISON is one of the largest unions in the higher education sector, supporting 50,000 members working in universities. Know how to negotiate for the future rather than now. These value judgments can become part of your BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement), the minimum level of compensation you will accept for a job, below which you will decline the offer. All HE members are asked to engage in branch meetings called to discuss the disputes. New figures today show the scale of pay cuts faced by university staff has been laid bare as new data showed 12 years of below inflation pay (ii) A strategy of all-out indefinite strike action, involving taking industrial action every day, starting in February and continuing until members vote to end the action, or the ballot mandate(s) expire(s).
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