The proposals pave the way for the end the use of involuntary zero-hour contracts in higher education, and to agree new standards, frameworks and principles to tackle other forms of casualised contracts, reduce workloads and close equality pay gaps. For staff at Levels 1-3, the University Executive Board has agreed to implement the current pay offer with effect from October salaries. A marking and assessment boycott commenced today at 145 UK universities after employers failed to produce an improved offer in the pay & conditions dispute. Reports of both conferences can be found here and here. UCEA spoke on behalf of sector employers in the joint statement, acknowledging that there needs to be a pay rise in these negotiations, which will continue at meetings on 14 April and 6 May. UUP 2022 Contract Negotiations News. WebOver the span of a 40-year career, that adds up to a $407,760 pay gap. The national dispute ballots open today. Select whether you're salaried or hourly paid and enter your details to see how your workload affects your pay. The university has offered to increase the minimum hourly wage to $19, going up to $21 after three years. 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 Jennifer Dannals of Dartmouth Colleges Tuck School of Business, and Nir Halevy and Margaret Neale, both of Stanford Universitys Graduate School of Business, analyzed data from 2,552 MBA students and executives 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. Show your accomplishments and progression in your role and market value data to support your negotiation. Strike action will run for three days from Wednesday 1 December to Friday 3 December, and the higher education committee has decided to call action short of a strike (ASOS) from 1 December, starting with working to contract only. The full HE pay claim for 2021/22 can be foundhere [PDF]. Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women. .positionleft.inlineimage, .positionright.inlineimage { max-width: 49% !important; margin-bottom: 1.5em !important; } .positionleft.inlineimage { margin-right: 0.5% !important; } .positionright.inlineimage { margin-left: 0.5% !important; } @media(max-width:600px) { .positionleft.inlineimage, .positionright.inlineimage { max-width: 100% !important; margin: 0 0 1em 0 !important; } #emergencybanner {margin-bottom: -1em !important;} }. A recent STEM postdoc recommended job seekers keep in mind the full range of whats negotiable -- not just salary but also many types of benefits, including relocation assistance. Please get in touch with the UCU press team if you would like to be involved! 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. The faculty pay only 5%. Thus bring the total number of instutitons affected to 68. The employers have refused to move from the final offer they made in May of 1.5% for 2021-22. The employers have made a final offer of a pay rise for 2021/22, amounting to an increase of 1.5% for the majority of HE staff from the beginning of this month. UCU branches have been asked to call emergency general meetings before 30 June after key decisions over the major issues facing the sector were taken at the recent higher education sector conference. The joint unions (UCU, Unison, Unite, GMB, and EIS) met with representatives of the employers (UCEA) on 30 November. Dont negotiate until a firm offer (in writing) has been extended 2. It also included a rise in all other pay related allowance by the same percentage points, and an offer to continue talks to progress all other elements of the joint claim: Oakland has proposed a pay increase to all faculty of 5.25% over three years; however, the union has not accepted this. University unions and employers meet on pay, Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement 2021. As part of the ongoing disputes, all branches will also be reballoted soon in preparation for potential industrial action next term. UCU general secretary Jo Grady wrote to members on our demands for sector-wide change as part of our 'four fights' dispute arising from the repeated failure of employers to address this aspect of our annual claim. UCU |University and College Union, Carlow Street, London NW1 7LH You can read the full claim here. Employers would not go beyond their usual offer of working groups to collect data on workload, casualisation and pay inequality. You can read a full summary of the meeting here and youcan read a response from our general secretary Jo Grady here. 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'. JNCHES negotiations 2022-23: UCEA opening offer [396kb], Following the first negotiating meeting the joint unions issued a statement which stated they 'were forced to conclude that UCEA had no intention of negotiating seriously': You can read the joint union statement on the meeting here. Seeking to improve my own knowledge and ability to inform students, I took an unscientific poll of my colleagues and friends negotiation stories and strategies. 'In the spirit of attempting to reach agreement, the joint unions agreed to intensive negotiations between now and the end of January, with further negotiations continuing into February and beyond as required on the other heads of the 22-23 claim. In the pay and working conditions ballot, the yes vote for strike action was 85.6% and the turnout was 56.4%. However, we've also provided further information should you wish to read more about our cookies or change your cookie settings. Make it clear how a win for you (in terms of your compensation) is also a win for your employer (in terms of their needs). Our members, and the members of our sister unions, have kept universities running during the pandemic, performed essential life-changing research including to combat the virus, and taught 4% more students than last year. This means from September pay, University of Leeds colleagues employed on the Universitys pay scale will receive: Basic pay increases of between 1.54% and 3.6% for colleagues on spine points up to and including 21. Inflation has been rising rapidly since the start of this year. Higher education members at 48 different employers are currently being balloted on the imposed sector pay freeze for 2020-21. The pay negotiations for 2021-22 have now commenced with the first of three Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff meetings between trade erhui1979/digitalvision vectors/getty images. No progress was made on other elements of the joint union claim including the 35 hour week, or Scottish JNCHES. 26 October 2021. at issue, but the reprisal for doing so. UCU general secretary Jo Grady today confirmed that a marking and assessment boycott will begin from Monday 23 May. We are at an impasse and nothing will change for the better unless UCU members put on a massive show of strength in those three days of strike action and accompanying ASOS': Industrial action starts on 1 December, UCU has called vice-chancellor pay packets 'immoral' and 'unsustainable' after the revelations in a report from the Office for Students into senior staff pay in English universities: Vice-chancellor pay exposes 'cavernous' gap between staff & management, UCU has written to university employer representatives outlining what university vice chancellors have to do to avoid industrial action in the next few weeks, escalating into spring and beyond: UCU writes to university bosses setting out how to avoid pre-Christmas campus strikes. UK higher education - a workforce in crisis [217kb], based on a survey of almost 7,000 university staff at over 100 institutions. My UCU. Cymru/Wales 2022/23 pay claim. UUP, state open talks for new contract: UUP web story, May 27, 2022. UCU has announced 18 further days of strike action between February and March in disputes over pay, conditions and attacks on pensions. WebA pay uplift across all scales for an increase of at least 12%; Negotiations will begin shortly. At that meeting the employers asked us to agree to open the 2023-4 pay round early. These conditions directly impact our rate of pay and working conditions, and should form a crucial part of our yearly bargaining round. The joint union are also committed to progressing all other elements of the claim. The joint unions are calling on the employers to engage in meaningful negotiations this year to ensure that higher education staff receive the pay uplift that is needed and deserved. However, recognising that workers are facing a cost of living crisis, and recognising the strength of anger shown by our ballot results and our strike action, they have offered to bring forward negotiations over the 2023-24 pay round with the aim of reaching a deal on pay covering the next 18 months. Below is our jointly agreed statement and you can read the response from our general secretary here. UCU general secretary Jo Grady writes to members with the latest on our recent negotiations with the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). Find out more about cookies and how we use them. A full written offer is expected early next week. | I got a mix of clear, pragmatic advice along with evidence of systemic problems requiring different solutions. 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 2021/22. Branches will be kept informed of the outcome of the final meeting. You do not have to take it as cue to revise your offer down. UCU's report mapping the extent of precarious employment in HE has been updated, revealing just how persistent the problem is, institution by institution. We were disappointed that UCEA did not bring an improved offer, despite our consistent communications on areas which are lacking. Subscribe for free to Inside Higher Eds newsletters, featuring the latest news, opinion and great new careers in higher education delivered to your inbox. At community colleges specifically, union faculty members earned an additional $18,000 in 2021, or 27 percent more than non-union faculty in the same states. Telephone: 020 7756 2500, Copyright UCU document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); The rejection of the pay and conditions proposals means a marking and assessment boycott will nowcommenceat145UK universities onThursday20 April,unless employers putan enhancedoffer on the table. Yet, over the same period, staff salaries have fallen in real terms. Background 2020-21 round meetings 1. Most employees at the university pay a premium of 10% for these outstanding benefits. UCEA: final pay offer 2022-23, May 22 [311kb], JNCHES negotiations 2022-23: joint union letter, 29 April 2022 [105kb], JNCHES negotiations 2022-23: joint union statement, 26 April 2022 [28kb], JNCHES negotiations 2022-23: UCEA opening offer [396kb], JNCHES negotiations 2022-23: joint union statement, 4 April 2022 [122kb], improving work life balance and reducing workloads, Week 2 - Thursday 9 and Friday 10 February, Week 3 - Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 February, Week 4 - Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 February, Week 5 - Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 February and Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 March, [No action week commencing Monday 6 March]. On this path, he advised, you can negotiate for mentorship and professional development resources -- for experiences that add value to your professional profile and open up desired career paths. Three consecutive days of strike action began today after university bosses and their representatives refused to address falling pay and worsening working conditions. As you know, we can have 18 UCPEA observers at every negotiation session. Then, without the join unions' agreement, the employers posted what was referred to as a 'joint statement' on their website, even though this had not been jointly agreed. The weighted results of the votes were as follows: (i) A strategy of escalating strike action, involving a pattern of escalating days of action through February, March, and April, engaging members again in March/April to take stock of the dispute situation and to agree any further strike action if needed. HE negotiation archives. The joint union claim also included a demand for a UK-wide agreement on Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs). When we refused to agree to this they refused to engage in negotiations. Seventeen further dates of strike action have been called for February and March to follow on from the next strike date of 1 February. When negotiations have ended, any agreed annual salary increase (known as the annual pay award) is applied to all salaries covered by pay bargaining from 1 August. A new report released today by the Education Support charity has exposed the reality of work-related stress in universities. Members are urged to check their membership information and postal address is up-to-date by logging in to Please read the joint union statement below. UCU's higher education committee (HEC), authorised sustained industrial action at a meeting on 19 January, which will include coordinated UK wide and regional rolling strikes. Last month, UCUsuccessfullyrenewed its industrial action mandate, allowing industrial action to be called for a further six months. Be prepared and use facts (average salary information, cost of living statistics) 3. It involved an offer of a 2.75% sub-inflationary rise on the majority of pay points, with bottom loading on pay points 3-19 ranging from 6% at point 3 to 2.8% at point 19, to accommodate the legal requirement to meet the new national minimum wage. Delegates at the annual HE sector conference voted for a massive escalation of industrial action. This week higher education unions met with the employers' organisation UCEA who refused to improve their derisory pay offer for 2022-23 of 3%. The action will take place over two weeks, with members in 39 universities taking action from Monday 21 Marchto Friday 25 March, with members in a further 29 universities taking action from Monday 28 Marchto Friday 1 April. First negotiations see the employers agree that there needs to be a rise in pay for hard-working higher education staff. Its not so much a fear of speaking up, negotiating, asserting oneself, etc. Higher Education News, Opinion and Careers | Weekdays, Quick Summary of the Week's Higher Ed News | Fridays, Admissions and Enrollment News, Opinion and Careers | Mondays, Diversity News, Opinion and Career Advice | Tuesdays, Student Success News, Ideas, Advice and Inspiration | Weekdays, On ChatGPT: Confessions of an Anonymous Lecturer, Postdocs Need People, Especially Each Other, Strategies for Career Exploration in Uncertain Times. Be ready for that conversation with your manager. Support staff pay is negotiated separately from teachers pay and all pay offers made have to be implemented in individual colleges. Caroline Levine, chair of the department of literatures in English at Cornell University, wrote to me, I was trying to think about negotiating strategies, and I realized that I often feel that women really have no good way to do this -- ask for more, and you're considered pushy and entitled; don't ask, and you don't get raises. For 2021-22, that rose to $78,908. There is no excuse not to restore pay to acceptable levels and provide secure pensions for university staff, UCU said today. The higher education committee (HEC) will now use these results and the debates that occurred in the meeting to inform their decision-making in the meeting on Thursday 12 January 2023 to decide our union's next steps. Rules for negotiating: 1. 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. However, were an inflation-linked offer to be made, we would want to hear it, alongside discussions about how we improve non pay related elements of our dispute. instruct HEC to declare a dispute with UUK over USS, ballot all USS members for industrial action to defend a defined benefit USS scheme, take industrial action (including strike and action short of strike action) in the autumn term, initiate exploration of the feasibility of conditional benefits and conditional indexation, continue the Four Fights campaign (pay, workload, casualisation, equality), ballot all HE members for industrial action in support of Four Fights, coordinate the USS and Four Fights ballots, take industrial action in pursuit of the Four Fights beginning in November, coordinate the campaign with sister unions. The joint unions will be looking at the implications of the offer in relation to both the claim and the structure of the pay uplift. 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. [295kb]. University employers today made proposals in the dispute over pay and working conditions. The report also reminds us that casualisation is an equality issue, with women and BAME staff disproportionately likely to be on various forms of insecure contract. 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. By Dan Moseson erhui1979/digitalvision vectors/getty images Members have backed strike action in a ballot over pay and working conditions. Successful reballots will allow staff to continue taking action through this calendar year. Work continues with a further meeting scheduled with ACAS on 14 March 2023. Find out more about cookies and how we use them. Read more here on the formal consultation results here. When I started my current job, the aspect I felt least prepared for was teaching students to negotiate compensation. At the end of our conversation, I asked Dinuka how he learned to negotiate. Understand the needs and abilities of the employer. Further details are available via Campus News (13 September 2022 UCU general secretary Jo Grady had earlier updated members on the latest decisions made by HEC and UCU's officers. A further 17 days of strike action is due to take place over February and March. When we did not agree to this, as we were unable to do so due to our own internal democratic processes, they then refused to move into negotiations without going back to consult their board about the amended process and mechanism that we told them we could sign up to. House Republicans would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion, or suspend it until March 31, 2024, whichever occurs first. Also employers were reminded that staff had not had a pay rise since August 2019 and employers offered 'zero' uplift last year. Following progress on terms of reference for a review of the UK HE pay spine, the focus is now on terms of reference covering equality pay gaps, contract types, and workload. During the talks, negotiators sought to find imaginative ways in which the demands on pay inequality and intersectionality, exploitative casual contracts including a demand specific to GTAs and workload can be progressed. Northern Ireland pay & conditions ballot scrutineer's report [257kb], Read the full story here: University staff vote for UK-wide strike action in historic ballot. More broadly these negotiations have been shaped by the ongoing response to the pandemic and the huge collective effort staff have made to ensure HE remains successful and attractive. April 18, 2021 How to Successfully Negotiate Your Salary Dan Moseson shares stories and strategies from across higher ed that include pragmatic advice along with ways to tackle some systemic problems. UCU's higher education committee (HEC) decided to escalate action short of a strike (ASOS) over the Four Fights and USS disputes. Members in striking branches are being asked to walk out on 21 & 22 February, and from 28 February to 2 March in the following week. The question guiding Annas efforts was, How can we support and advocate for each other? She hopes they will pay it forward and help create a chain reaction of women supporting women, stepping out of their comfort zones to advocate for themselves and then others. All negotiating should take place over the phone or in person; this needs to be a conversation 5. The HE trade unions pressed UCEA to improve their opening offer of 1.1% on pay and in regards to the pay related and equality elements of the claim, for a meaningful offer that focuses on action and sector wide frameworks to address pay inequality, precarious employment and workloads. The offer is for an increase of 1.1% on the total paybill. Telephone: 020 7756 2500, Copyright UCU document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); New figures today show the scale of pay cuts faced by university staff has been laid bare as new data showed 12 years of below inflation pay UCU general secretary Jo Grady writes to members with the latest on our recent negotiations with the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). Branches have been asked to look out for further communication on the joint trade union claim. For UCU represented grades its worth 1.5%. .positionleft.inlineimage, .positionright.inlineimage { max-width: 49% !important; margin-bottom: 1.5em !important; } .positionleft.inlineimage { margin-right: 0.5% !important; } .positionright.inlineimage { margin-left: 0.5% !important; } @media(max-width:600px) { .positionleft.inlineimage, .positionright.inlineimage { max-width: 100% !important; margin: 0 0 1em 0 !important; } #emergencybanner {margin-bottom: -1em !important;} }, .dateline {margin: 4px 0 -10px 0 !important;}. I need to try., But one shouldnt need to be as strategic and determined as Dinuka to be paid equitably. UCU warned of a staff exodus from UK universities after two-thirds of university staff said they are considering leaving the sector within five years over cuts to pensions and deteriorating pay and working conditions. Simply, silence is not a reason that you should be giving ground. On a turnout of over 57%, breaking the 50% threshold set by anti-union legislation, around 80% of members who voted said yes to taking industrial action over pay and conditions claim: National pay & conditions ballot scrutineer's report [276kb] We met again yesterday on 13 December. By comparison, the gender pay gap among workers of all ages that year was 18 cents. You can see the institutions involved here. Dinuka and Calvin also pointed out that, in some negotiations, money may not be the highest priority. The JNCHES negotiating timetable for 2022/23: Branches will be updated with developments during the negotiations. Helene Fuld College of Nursing Mid-Career Median Salary: $95,600. Information on the UK-wide higher education negotiations for 2021-22 which take place within the Joint National Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES). This distinction clarifies where the need for change lies. OConnell Rodriguezs website links to copious research suggesting that this is true -- its important to teach our students and junior colleagues to be skilled negotiators, but that alone will not end pay inequities. Remember, she added, never to inflate or exaggerate other offers., A new faculty member provided a particularly vivid picture of how they leveraged multiple offers: One of the strategies I used in the second negotiation phone call was that at the beginning, I started by talking about how I really like my current institution and that I knew [the hiring manager] knew I was also interviewing there. Member participation in this process is critical in order to inform the next higher education committee meeting on 2 July, where they will decide how we proceed with our campaigns over pay and pensions. Members of the group In a message to members on the eve of the action, UCU general secretaryJo Grady said the employers' treatment of their staff is causing material and reputational damage to the sector. This follows a 0% offer for 2020-21, when inflation was 1.5% using RPI (the unions' preferred measure) or around 0.5% using CPIH (the measure preferred by the employers). 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. Negotiators expect parity between The joint unions are disappointed that while we turned up ready to negotiate in good faith, UCEA declined to put any offer on the table amidst 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. The dates are: It was announced today that members will be called to take strike action on Wednesday 1 February. This means that from Thursday 20 April members are asked to cease undertaking all summative marking and associated assessment activities/duties. The employers have made a final offer of a pay rise for 2021/22, pay negotiations are yet to start and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency is also UCU's special higher education sector conference has voted for a marking and assessment boycott at 41 universities across the UK, a move which could prevent students from receiving their grades. Ballot papers will be sent via first class post. A marking and assessment boycott due to begin in January will now be called from April. The precise dates of the action will be confirmed next week. Internally, know the salary request schedule of your organization. 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': With the dispute process now concluded preparations for an industrial actionballot in the autumn are now under way: University strike ballot a step closer as vice-chancellors refuse to improve pay offer. The key dates are as follows: Further details on ballot timetable and activities have been sent out to all branch officers; please contact your branch and volunteer to 'get the vote out' (GTVO). Next steps in our national pay and conditions campaign will be made at the Higher Education Sector Conference on 9 September. The proposals will now move through our democratic processes, and strike action will continue until our 70,000 UCU members have had the chance to have their say: Employers make offers in university disputes. 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. As has long been the case, the wage gap is smaller for workers ages 25 to 34 than for all workers 16 and older. UCU responded to the latest HESA report on higher education staff by stating that it shows why university staff are taking strike action, especially as 'women, black staff and disabled staff continue to face shocking pay gaps with women more likely to be on zero hours contracts than men, and black women even more likely still': Official statistics show why university staff are taking strike action. Members at 150 universities will strike for three days in November over attacks on pay, working conditions and pensions it was announced today. The higher education committee (HEC) also agreed to re-ballot staff at all 150 universities to renew UCU's mandate and allow the union to call action well into 2023 unless the disputes are settled.
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