During my doctoral program, I gained a range of skills and experiences that I draw on today as a graduate career coach at the University of Utah. UCU general secretary Jo Grady had earlier updated members on the latest decisions made by HEC and UCU's officers. Rolling strike action across UCU regions is then being planned from 7 March if no agreement has been reached with the employers. 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. PSAC says it has compromised on wages as strike continues In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of median hourly earnings of both full- and part-time workers. Support staff pay is negotiated separately from teachers pay and all pay offers made have to be implemented in individual colleges. Our elected negotiatorsturned up ready to negotiate in good faith, but UCEA declined to put any offer on the table amid 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. We expect UCEA, as a representative of our employers, to demonstrate a commitment to staff in HE by improving their offer. A former department chair at Syracuse University addressed the common fear of asking for too much money: I have never known a university to retract a job offer just because the candidate asks for too much. Offers and Negotiation (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). 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. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) recently met the sector unions for a final national pay negotiating Pay in Scotland. not undertaking any voluntary activities. Give your manager plenty of time to discuss with you and then enter into the request process for you. There is real pressure on new JNCHES to deliver for and reward staff in 2021/22. UCU |University and College Union, Carlow Street, London NW1 7LH
The joint unions have written to all vice-chancellors & principals asking them to contact UCEA and ensure that a 'serious offer' which addresses the trade unions' claim must now be made at the final meeting on 5 May: She UCU's higher education committee (HEC) meets on 19 January to decide the next steps, following a branch delegates' meeting to feed in members' views. Employers would not go beyond their usual offer of working groups to collect data on workload, casualisation and pay inequality. These results are similar to where the pay gap stood in 2002, when This year the onus is on UCEA to demonstrate leadership and to match the union's ambition, by making an offer that addresses the decline in member's pay and the cost of living squeeze, tackling pay inequality, reducing workloads and casualisation, as well as dealing with structural issues with the pay spine. The offer is for an increase of 1.1% on the total paybill. On 14 April 2021 the second of this year's JNCHES higher education pay negotiations took place. In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, Be ready for that conversation with your manager. UCU general secretary Jo Grady has announced the timetable for action on both the pay and USS disputes, saying 'we have tried to negotiate and compromise with employers, but they haven't even met us half way. Salary UCU today announced a further five days of strike action beginning this month unless vice chancellors revoke pension cuts and meet staff demands over pay and working conditions. HE negotiation archives. For the first time in the two disputes the ballot will be aggregated, meaning that if UCU achieves an overall turnout of 50% or above and a majority YES vote, all universities across the UK will be hit by strike action. Helene Fuld College of Nursing Mid-Career Median Salary: $95,600. American Indian and Alaska Native women earn $25,884 less a year, $1,035,360 less over a 40-year career span. Pay 2021-22: Final offer presented | For Staff | University of Leeds UCEA did not demonstrate willingness to improve their previous pay offer, despite the rise in inflationthat means that 1.5% would now constitute a real terms pay cut, under both RPI and CPIH. Three consecutive days of strike action began today after university bosses and their representatives refused to address falling pay and worsening working conditions. UCEA conducts collective pay negotiations with the five HE trade unions - UCU, UNISON, Unite, EIS and GMB - on behalf of a significant number of UK HE A full written offer is expected early next week. This was followed by GMB doing the same on 12 January 2021. The pay uplift for the 2021-22 academic year guarantees increases of at least 1.5%, with higher percentage uplifts made to the pay points below Spine Point 22, up to a A. 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'. 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. As you know, we can have 18 UCPEA observers at every negotiation session. The reballots come after a number of branches narrowly missed the Conservative's anti-trade union turnout threshold, in some cases by only one or two votes: it was announced today. Although UCEA made UCU an initial pay offer for the upcoming 2023-24 pay round worth between 4% and 5% yesterday they made no further improvement on the 3% pay increased for 2022-23 over which the current action is taking place. Overall, more than seven in 10 members who voted (70.1%) backed strike action with 84.9% voting for action short of strike, which could include a marking boycott: Big mandate for strike action at UK universities over pay & working conditions. The higher education committee (HEC) met today and authorised a ballot of all higher education members over the 2022-23 offer in late summer with strikes to follow in the November, along with further ballots for industrial action in spring 2023. Marking and assessment boycott to hit 145 UK universities from tomorrow. So, we have no option but to escalate and try to win change through collective action.' HE negotiations 2021-22. HEC also agreed to begin preparations for a UK wide marking and assessment boycott, which would see staff refusing to undertake marking and assessment duties: Members at another 12 universities have voted in favour of joining industrial action over attacks on pay, pensions & working conditions. Its unfair and unrealistic to expect folks to overcome systemic problems solely through individual efforts. 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. Several colleagues recommended that if you have multiple offers, you can make careful use of this fact to strengthen your negotiating position. JNCHES negotiations 2022-23: joint union letter, 29 April 2022 [105kb], The employers increased their offer by another 0.15% during the second negotiating meeting on 25 April. 0800 0 857 857, Copyright 2023 Privacy policy Week 7 - Monday 20, Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 March. 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': Caroline pointed me to a tweet from the journalist and author Stefanie OConnell Rodriguez, who wrote, Can we start saying ambition penalty instead of confidence gap when we talk about women and girls? Basic pay increase of 1.5% for colleagues on spine points 22 and above. Instead, you can hold firm, politely restate your case for the compensation you deserve and choose your next move without giving any ground. Oakland has proposed a pay increase to all faculty of 5.25% over three years; however, the union has not accepted this. An escalation of action short of strike is also planned. UCU general secretary Jo Grady said in a message to members, 'I do not want to overplay the importance of this development because there is still a long way to go but this is another clear sign that your magnificent support, and the magnificent support of our members, for our union is working. However, we've also provided further information should you wish to read more about our cookies or change your cookie settings. UCU general secretary Jo Grady today announced an additional day of strike action on 15 March 2023. 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. | The national negotiating committee for higher education staff (New JNCHES) met yesterday for the first time this year, to negotiate on higher education pay for The precise dates of the action will be confirmed next week: Universities to be hit with 18 days of strike action before April. UCEA also made some limited proposals in regards to the pay related and equality elements of the claim. Annual pay award A further 17 days of strike action is due to take place over February and March. As chair, I do a lot of negotiating for others, and that's one place where I think more work has to happen. UCU today 4. Telephone: 020 7756 2500, Copyright UCU document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); UCU members in higher education are rising up and saying enough is enough. UCU today confirmed it will move ahead with plans to ballot staff in disputes over pay & conditions and pensions. The final JNCHES meeting of the 2021/22 negotiating round took place yesterday, Thursday 6 May. We met with the employers on 30 November. They will simply say no, but the offer will remain on the table because the university has invested far too much time and money in getting the search to this point to abandon it. As in the wider job market, any amount you can justify in terms of the value you bring is worth putting on the table and will usually not compromise the job offer. 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. It is to be distributed throughout the pay spine in a tapered way with a proportionately higher amount for those at the bottom relative to those at the middle and top. We use cookies on our website to ensure you find the information you need in the simplest way. By comparison, the gender pay gap among workers of all ages that year was 18 cents. | Website designed by nclud. She negotiated with leadership to secure higher pay for our graphic designer and a leader among our student workers. Also employers were reminded that staff had not had a pay rise since August 2019 and employers offered 'zero' uplift last year. UCU has now received a full and final offer from UCEA, the employers' representatives, in respect of the 2022-23 pay round: On 15 July HE negotiators from UCU, Unite, and Unison met UCEA in the first of two dispute resolution meetings over the current bargaining round. Please get in touch with the UCU press team if you would like to be involved! 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. On the pay related and equality matters the situation is more nuanced than pay. UCU's higher education committee (HEC) will consider the conference resolutions on Friday 1 July, and this will be preceded by a branch delegate meeting where branches can feed in to the HEC's decisions. I cant stop students from cheating, they write, so is it even worth it to tryespecially when Im so overworked and, When you look back over your entire career and life, Victoria McGovern asks, who said or did something that helped gu. Employers have described this real terms pay cut as 'fair, but UCU's new modeller shows the offer means pay has fallen 20% in real terms since 2009. Members at 150 universities will strike for three days in November over attacks on pay, working conditions and pensions it was announced today. We have had positive discussions on this matter, but nothing is firm yet.'. I looked over all of our colleagues' records of publication, teaching, and service and made the case that two faculty of color were underpaid given their accomplishments. Understand the needs and abilities of the employer. The pay option There is no excuse not to restore pay to acceptable levels and provide secure pensions for university staff, UCU said today. 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. News 'A WIGUT victory': Union pleased as remit received for salary negotiations Narissa Fraser Yesterday WIGUT president Dr Indira Rampersad, left, and other members listen as UWI principal Rose-Marie Belle Antoine address them during a protest at the St Augustine campus on April 20.File phot by Roger Jacob. 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. The outcome of last year's New JNCHES negotiations was an unprecedented 'zero' % pay offer by UCEA. I think that set the stage for him to be more willing to be flexible.. Formal consultation on employers' proposals and announcing our reballot result, Employers make offers in university disputes, Jo Grady today announced an additional day of strike action, UCU Rising: strike paused, campaign continues, talks mediated by conciliation service Acas, University strikes escalate after staff reject 'low-ball' offer, have voted by 80.4% to reject the latest pay offer, continue to insist on a real-terms pay cut for 2023/4, Seventeen further dates of strike action have been called, 70,000 university staff to strike on 1 February, Universities to be hit with 18 days of strike action before April, initial pay offer for the upcoming 2023-24 pay round, response from our general secretary Jo Grady here, read the response from our general secretary here, Jo Grady writes to members with the latest, Members at 150 universities will strike for three days in November, National pay & conditions ballot scrutineer's report [276kb], Northern Ireland pay & conditions ballot scrutineer's report [257kb], University staff vote for UK-wide strike action in historic ballot, strike ballots will open at UK universities on Tuesday 6 September, called for universities to scrap vanity projects, University strike ballot a step closer as vice-chancellors refuse to improve pay offer, read UCEA's confirmed final offer for 2022-23 here. Branches are strongly encouraged to meet to debate motions and elect delegates. My UCU. 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. Members at more than 20 universities will proceed to a marking boycott on 23 May despite threats of 100% pay deductions from some rogue bosses. Branches will be kept informed of the outcome of the final meeting. 2022 Contract Negotiations - United University Professions Communication can always throw us curveballs, and many of us already feel off balance when money is involved. After adjusting for inflation, the sector has seen its total income rise by around 15% over the last six years. UB, Niagara University top local list for highest professor pay on UUP 2022 Contract Negotiations News. The gender gap in pay has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past 20 years or so. The yesvote is up on the previousballot. Dinuka and Calvin also pointed out that, in some negotiations, money may not be the highest priority.