Q: Do you support UCU members being formally consulted on the proposals that have been reached with UCEA on pay, ending zero hour contracts, workloads, casualisation and closing equality pay gaps?
Q: Do you support UCU members being formally consulted on the proposals that have been reached with UCEA on pay, ending zero hour contracts, workloads, casualisation and closing equality pay gaps?
Members in both disputes (mostly pre-92 universities):
Yes: 76%
No: 24%
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Q: Do you support UCU members being formally consulted on the proposals that have been reached with UCEA on pay, ending zero hour contracts, workloads, casualisation and closing equality pay gaps?
4F dispute only members (mostly post-92 universities):
Yes: 83%
No: 17%
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USS PENSIONS
Q: Do you support UCU members being formally consulted over the proposals that have been reached with UUK to restore benefits and lower pension contributions?
Q: Do you support UCU members being formally consulted over the proposals that have been reached with UUK to restore benefits and lower pension contributions?
Q: Do you support UCU members being formally consulted over the proposals that have been reached with UUK to restore benefits and lower pension contributions?
We have moved the employer on a range of issues. We will continue to move them in the coming weeks, but the thing that will get this dispute over the line is a massive YES vote in the reballot.
Here we set out where we are on a range of issues.
🚨BREAKING: UCEA, the group representing uni bosses, has confirmed it is doubling down on real-terms pay cuts, refusing to even acknowledge casualisation & offering vague gestures on inequality & workload.
Today @UniversitiesUK voted to push ahead with its plans to cut thousands of pounds from the retirement benefits of university staff in the USS pension scheme
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The employer body voted for their package of cuts ahead of agreeing to fully consider UCU's alternative proposals and calls for a month's extension so that staff and universities could be properly consulted
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UCU's proposals would have delivered higher benefits in return for lower contributions than the proposals from @UniversitiesUK and for the first time would have would have provided a secure pension for staff on low pay and insecure contracts
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🧵Today, government cuts to arts and humanities courses were confirmed by @officestudents
These courses face a 50% cut to their subsidies, which will make many unviable, forcing them to close
Here are the courses that are effected:
Performing arts
Music
Drama
Dance
Art
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Design studies
Cinematics and photography
Information services
Publishing
Journalism
Media studies
Clothing production
Footwear production
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The cuts aren't restricted to traditional university degrees either, and also target learndirect courses, which are aimed at upskilling adults in employment
Those courses are:
Arts and crafts
Gardening and floristry
Industrial design
Product design
Industrial model making
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