Dear friends and colleagues, This week you will have received a message from HR explaining that as of 1 October, your contributions to USS have increased to 9.6% (note: when we went on strike, our contributions were 8%). The email also stated that this increase means that “the current level of benefits is retained at
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Update: Meeting with GenSec Jo Grady
Dear friends and colleagues, As you know, UCU General Secretary Jo Grady will be at Keele on Monday 30 September (12pm, CBA0.061) for an open meeting on pay, pensions, and the challenges facing HE and UCU. All are welcome, so please encourage your colleagues (members and non-members alike) to attend. Following the meeting, Jo will
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Pay and equality ballot
Dear friends and colleagues, This week’s email update will focus on the pay ballot and underlying dispute. Over the past decade, wages have plummeted across the UK. But compared to national averages, pay in the higher education sector has lagged behind. Since 2009, the wages of university staff have fallen in real terms by over 20%,
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2019 Financial Sustainability Plan – Press Statement
Please find our press statement and the executive summary of our Position Paper – Financial Sustainability Plans on our new page dedicated to the 2019 Financial Sustainability of Keele University: http://www.keeleucu.co.uk/2019-financial-sustainability-plan
EGM 2 April, Social event tonight
Dear friends and colleagues, This is to remind you about our upcoming EGM and social event. 1. EGM – Tues 2 April, 12-1pm, Westminster Theatre The focus of this EGM will be to provide an update, and importantly to establish a mandate for Keele UCU’s next steps in regards to the VS scheme and the
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Upcoming meetings re: VS & financial plans, social event
Dear friends and colleagues; In the past few weeks we’ve been busy with weekly meetings with Senior Management, analysing financial information, challenging many of the numbers and information being relayed by management, and supporting members who are being called into meetings about VS. The University has provided us with some limited financial information, and as
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Advice to Members on VS
Please note that all union members are entitled to union representation in any and all meetings pertaining to VS and/or change of contract. Please, if you are a UCU member, before you set a time for a meeting with the Faculty Executive Group or any other level of management, as outlined in recent emails, contact
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Keele UCU Motion in relation to UUK offer
We instruct our negotiators to negotiate a better deal. We reject the deal that is based on a fictitious deficit. We call for a new independent evidence-based Reevaluation. This Reevaluation should begin immediately. We call for the DB scheme to be maintained until the reevaluation is complete. We call for the industrial action to be
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Keele UCU Alternative IWD
Keele UCU, along with KeeleSU, will hold an alternative International Women’s Day event at KeelSU (ground floor, opposite Munch) from 2-5pm: 2-3pm: Women of Keele on Women in Academia and Activism Roundtable – Farzana Shain, Kate Cushing, Ele Fisher, Jane Krishnadas, Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh 3-3.30pm: Creative Women – Readings by Ceri Morgan, Jen Campion, Amy Coquaz
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Keele UCU Strike Activities Programme (Wks 3+4)
We have an evolving and engaging programme of activities for staff, students, and the local community. You can check the programme here for updates. Please join us! KUCU_Strike Prog W3+4 sm tri