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Dear Members, The employers' final pay offer of 2% or £425 (whichever is the greater) is noticeably lower than the unions' claim for an increase of 7.5% or £1,500 (whichever is greater) and a minimum wage of £10 per hour.  This falls well short of our aim.  Recent years have seen a series of below inflation pay rises, which have made it increasingl…

The University of Cambridge will reinforce and extend its commitment to paying the Real Living Wage (RLW) following a motion to approve the proposal submitted today. The motion was passed in a joint consultation with various unions and Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU).Read more....

The Living WageThe idea behind a living wage is very simple: that a person should be paid enough to live decently and to adequately provide for their family.The national minimum wage is too lowThe highest rate of the statutory national minimum wage is currently £7.50 an hour. This has been proven to be too little for a person to make ends meet for …

Blog: Time to stop FE cuts and invest in educationhttps://www.unison.org.uk/news/2017/11/blog-time-stop-fe-cuts-invest-education/

The campaign for your pay rise continuesLast week’s Budget was an opportunity to bring an end to pay misery for public sector workers. Instead, the government refused to act.UNISON’s response was unequivocal and featured in leading newspapers and blogs, with our general secretary criticising a budget that had ‘left public services gasping for air’.…

National Stress Awareness DayStress and the management of mental health in the workplace is becoming one of the biggest health concerns. According to UNISON’s 2017 survey on stress, demands on time were the biggest cause of workplace stress. However, with over 60% of employers failing to raise the issue of stress in the workplace it is clearly not …