1) Pay & Equality Ballot Result The results of the pay and equality ballot are in. Bristol UCU members voted by 72% to 28% in favour of taking industrial action, and 81.7%/18.3% in favour of action short of a strike up to and including a marking and assessment boycott. Unfortunately, we did not meet the […]
Category: Newsflash
Don’t Delay, Vote Today Today is the last day to return your UCU pay and equality ballot paper by post. Any delay and it won’t reach Electoral Reform Service HQ by the deadline – ballot closes this Friday, 19th October. Let’s get this vote over the line. Show your support and take a stand against […]
Bristol UCU submitted our Anti-Casualisation Claim last week. To read the Claim in full, please click on the link below: https://tinyurl.com/BristolUCUACCoct2018 Hot on the heels of our Gender Pay Claim, the Anti-Casualisation Claim asks the University of Bristol to enter into consequential negotiations with Bristol UCU in order to address ‘the employment of staff on […]
1) Gender Pay Claim The University of Bristol and Bristol UCU have agreed a Joint Statement of Intent regarding the Gender Pay Gap. For the full statement: https://www.ucubristol.org.uk/files/2018/10/Joint-Statment-of-Intent-University-of-Bristol-and-Bristol-UCU-299gt6k.pdf The Statement notes ‘the University of Bristol and UCU recognise that, although the gender pay gap needs to be tackled across the whole of the University, there […]
1) Calling All USS Members – Say No to Cost Sharing From April 2019 If the Joint Evaluation Panel (JEP) Report has demonstrated anything, it is that USS’s current proposals to introduce steep rises in employers’ and employees’ contributions from April 2019 are unnecessary and should be suspended asap. It is in the interests of […]
1) Relationships Policy The University are currently trying to introduce a new Sexual Misconduct or Relationships Policy. Campus unions have objected to the wording of the Staff-Staff Relationship section of the Policy. Bristol UCU reps, for example, consider the current draft to place too much of a burden on staff to report an ‘intimate relationship’ […]
1) Gender Pay Claim Negotiations The first of three formal negotiation meetings on our Gender Pay Gap Claim took place yesterday (11th September). Please look out for a separate update on that, coming soon. In the meantime a date for your diaries: 1st November is the day the University effectively stops paying women because of […]
Nb. this is the last Newsflash of the current 2017/18 academic year – ‘Flash is taking a summer break, returning in September 2018 1) Update – UCU in Dispute Yesterday (Tuesday, 24th July) UCU wrote to the University of Bristol Vice-Chancellor, and all other VCs and Heads of Institutions represented by UCEA, the negotiating body […]
1) Gender Pay Claim Bristol UCU reps and University reps had our second formal meeting about the Gender Pay Claim on Thursday last week. We are pleased to report that things are beginning to move in the right direction. For example, it was agreed that we would receive a response to our Bristol UCU draft […]
1) National Strike Ballot – Consultative Pay Ballot Result The results of the recent consultative e-ballot are in: UCU HE members have voted to reject the employers’ final below inflation and employers’ inaction regarding gender pay and casual contracts. In the consultative e-ballot, UCU members indicated their support for industrial action. Members will now be […]