Support staff at a leading music education institute in Leeds are set to walk out on Friday (27 March) in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions. Workers at Leeds Conservatoire, including performance assistants and studio technicians, staged a two-day walkout last month unhappy at what they say are broken promises over pay and holidays. […]
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Studio technicians and performance assistants at a leading music education institute in Leeds will walk out tomorrow (Tuesday) for two days in a dispute over pay and conditions. A number of student support staff at Leeds Conservatoire are on different contracts to many of their colleagues, meaning they receive lower pay and fewer holidays. A […]
Proposed cuts to student support services at the University of York will compromise safety and wellbeing, says UNISON today (Monday). The university is planning to axe services to make savings of £1m, following £14m in earlier budget cuts. The latest proposal includes reducing staff who provide round-the-clock support, including those assisting students in crisis, and safety teams responding to security, first aid, and […]
Representatives from UNISON branches based at the University of Leeds, University of York and Sheffield Hallam University joined almost a hundred activists from across the country for a lobby in Parliament about the higher education sector earlier this week. The lobby, which took place on Tuesday lunchtime, was organised as part of UNISON’s Fund Our […]
A number of university staff from institutions across Yorkshire and Humberside are set to travel to London to take part in UNISON’s lobby of parliament tomorrow (Tuesday). The lobby, which is part of the union’s Fund Our Future campaign, will act as an opportunity for staff to meet with their MPs to discuss the crisis […]
Universities across the country are facing significant financial challenges after over a decade of cuts to budgets from the previous Conservative government. The higher education sector is in crisis. A combination of tuition fees, Brexit, a drop in international student numbers—worsened by the previous government’s hostile stance on immigration—and inflationary pressures has put some universities […]
Senior managers at the University of Bradford must explore all options to avoid redundancies so staff and students don’t pay the price for financial problems, says UNISON today (Friday). The university has a £16m hole in its finances and has proposed cuts that could lead to more than 200 staff losing their jobs. This amounts to around […]
Senior managers at the University of Huddersfield have found the money to offer a voluntary redundancy package after pressure from UNISON to avoid compulsory job losses, says the union today (Tuesday). The university announced plans in April to make 198 compulsory redundancies, which is more than 10% of its current workforce. A survey of staff […]
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea has published a statement of solidarity to all workers being impacted by cuts in higher education. “UNISON stands in solidarity with all branches and members resisting job cuts and course closures across the higher education sector. “The proposed plan to make around 200 people (12% of the workforce) redundant at […]
Plans by Sheffield Hallam University to cut 425 jobs will be deeply damaging to staff and students, says UNISON today (Wednesday). Around 200 clerical, professional and technical staff posts including in catering and student support are under threat at the university, in addition to 225 previously declared academic posts. Sheffield Hallam has blamed the planned redundancies on what it […]
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