Author: Colin Jones
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Branch Christmas Competition 2022
Once more we are running our fantastic Christmas Competition, which is open to members only for all our current UNISON members at both the Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen. This year, fifteen luck winners will receive a voucher code for £50, to use on any shopping vouchers they like from the love2shop…
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Branch Christmas Competition 2018
Once more we are running our fantastic Christmas Competition, which is open to members only for all our current UNISON members at both the Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen. Prizes this year are an amazing MSI Gaming Laptop. We'll also have our ever popular Dinner and a Show for Two, and Christmas…
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Winter Fuel Grants 2016
Worried About Paying Your Winter Fuel Bill? With rising fuel costs and another cold winter looming many members on low income are worried about how they're going to pay their winter fuel bills. Help is on hand 'There for You' has set up a limited fund to help UNISON members on low…
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Branch Pay Offer Consultation 2017/18
We have now received a "full and final" written pay offer from the national employers’ organisation the Universities & Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). The offer for 2017-18 follows pay talks between the employers and joint Higher Education unions, and consists of: a 1.7% increase from 1 August for all staff covered by the higher education…
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Vote NOW for Better Pay!
Why you should vote YES for strike action… The offer is a real terms pay cut – The pay offer just 1.8% (with lowest paid staff between 1.8 and 3.65%) – Find out how much you have lost using our PAY CALCULATOR Our pay claim was much higher than the offer…
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Branch Christmas Competition 2017
Once more we are running our fantastic Christmas Competition, which is open to members only for all our current UNISON members at both the Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen. Prizes this year are an amazing Panasonic 4K Ultra HD 49-inch Television. We'll also have our ever popular Dinner and a Show for…
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Free £20 Gift Voucher for Branch Members!
As you know the branch receives money each year to use on a variety of things, including social events. We'll be running our Christmas competition as usual, but we have also run coach trips and other events in the past. This year, as you'll appreciate, we haven't been able to do that. We know however…
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UNISON Branch AGM 2018
It's now time for the branch Annual General Meeting, and this year we'll be repeating our split AGM format across both Universities. The AGM will be held on two days at lunchtimes, with one meeting at RGU and the other at UofA. Please make every effort to come along to one of them. Refreshments will…
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Our New Branch Banner
Although it’s taken a little while, the branch has finally got its very own marching banner. You’ll have seen banners at various rallies and demonstrations, and many branches have their own, but we didn’t have one – that is until now! The banner is printed with the UNISON logo and the branch name – see…
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Hundreds Celebrate May Day in Aberdeen
More than five hundred people from trade unions and campaigning groups, including a number of key local politicians and friends of the ATUC, took to the streets and marched along Union Street on Saturday 2nd March to celebrate International Workers’ Day and to call for an end to austerity. Led off by the Guarana Drummers, the…