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	<title>Higher Education Pay Offer - National Consultation Results</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Further to circular HE 27/11 the result of the pay consultation was that a significant majority of branches agreed to note the offer. UNISON will be writing to the university employers to confirm our ...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-12-20</dc:date>
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	<title>HE National Pay Bargaining - Local Consultation Result</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[The local branch consultation for the 2011 pay offer has now closed.  As the offer was not being recommended for acceptance, members were asked whether they wished to &quot;note&quot; or &quot;reject&quot; the offer.  Th...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-12-14</dc:date>
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	<title>Christmas Competition Winners 2011</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Our competition this year asked members to choose the answer to our word scramble EESITOMTL.  The answer was of course &quot;G: MISTLETOE&quot; and everyone picked the right answer with 169 entries overall!

...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-12-09</dc:date>
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	<title>Higher Education National Pay Consultation - FINAL OFFER</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[We have now received a 'full and final' written pay offer from the national employers' organisation the Universities &amp;amp; Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). This consists of a £150 increase to al...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
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	<title>Pensions Day of Action - Nov 30th</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A big thank you to all the members at The Robert Gordon University who took part in the national day of action over pensions on Wednesday - and a particular thank you to those members who were out the...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-12-01</dc:date>
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	<title>Branch launches on Twitter and Facebook</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[It's now possible to get the latest branch updates on Twitter and Facebook - we'll be posting regular information about what's happening in the branch, so &quot;follow&quot; or &quot;like&quot; us now:


Facebook: fac...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-11-28</dc:date>
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	<title>YES Vote Signals Green Light for Strike Action</title>
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Following the decisive yes vote, UNISON's lay activists have given the green
light to strike action on 30 November, to protect their pensions.

The union welcomed the theoretical improvements to ...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-11-03</dc:date>
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	<title>UNISON rejects "final offer" of £150 one-off payment</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Commenting on The University and Colleges Employer's Association's (UCEA) final offer of a one-off £150 payment, UNISON's Senior National Officer for Education, Jon Richards said:

&quot;This pay offer f...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-07-13</dc:date>
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	<title>Aberdeen's public services join together to protect members' pensions</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Public service workers from across Aberdeen will join together this week to discuss attacks on their pensions and plans to defend them.

UNISON, Scotland's largest union in public services, together...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-07-12</dc:date>
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	<title>Unions Reject Initial £100 Pay Offer for 2011</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A meeting of the UK-wide Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff took place on 26 May.

The higher education employers made an offer of a &amp;pound;100 increase on all pay points for 201...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-06-01</dc:date>
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	<title>Don't leave it too late!</title>
	<link>http://www.aub-unison.org.uk/index.cfm?section=2#piid156</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Did you know that certain membership benefits are subject to a waiting period before you can take advantage of them?

Although we will deal with new members' problems immediately, providing you with...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-02-01</dc:date>
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	<title>UNISON promotes Fairtrade products</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[The Fairtrade mark on the goods you buy guarantees a fairer deal for workers in developing countries. It is a trading partnership, which aims at sustainable development for excluded and disadvantaged ...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2011-01-10</dc:date>
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	<title>Christmas Competition Winners for 2010</title>
	<link>http://www.aub-unison.org.uk/index.cfm?section=2#piid249</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Our competition this year asked members to choose the odd one out and select the matching answer from the grid.  The answer was of course &quot;H: Easter eggs and bunny&quot; and everyone picked the right answe...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2010-12-11</dc:date>
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	<title>UNISON Legal Services</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Did you know that one of the benefits of membership is access to UNISON's legal services?  There are a variety of different services available to members and some to their families as well.


Servi...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2010-12-10</dc:date>
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	<title>RGU: IT Outsourcing Halted</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[This morning Andrew McCreath has informed staff that, after further discussions at SPARG over the IT Services Outsourcing process, the University has now decided that they will no longer proceed with ...]]></description>
	<dc:date>2010-12-09</dc:date>
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