Category: Campaigns

  • Have you VOTED yet!? Vote YES for Better Pay!

    Pay talks with the University and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA) ended in impasse, rather than agreement. UCEA made their latest final pay offer for 2023-24 during the ACAS facilitated dispute resolution talks in February: another below-inflation pay rise. With RPI inflation at 13.8% in February 2023 and even CPI at 10.4%, like many other workers across…

  • RGU STRIKE Update – December 2022

    In the run-up to the Christmas break, here's another strike update video for you. Follow us on FACEBOOK – we'll continue to send updates from the picket lines and on the overall dispute.  You can also see some of the photo's and videos from the picket lines this week as well. Click here and like…

  • Protect The Right to Strike

    The Conservative Government's Trade Union Bill is a new set of laws that will severely restrict working peoples’ ability to organise for their own rights and campaign for a more progressive society. It will go through Parliament this Autumn and could be law by February 2016 and will apply in England, Scotland and Wales. UNISON…

  • 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…

  • RGU STRIKE Update – September 2022

    We had a great turnout on the picket lines for our first two days of strike action.  Rather than a long email, I though this time I'd do a short video update for you all – click here to watch it: Follow us on FACEBOOK – we'll continue to send updates from the picket lines…

  • RGU STRIKE Update

    Strike Dates As previously communicated we are now taking strike action on Tuesday 20th/Wednesday 21st September, and Monday 3rd/Tuesday 4th October.  PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND THE WORKPLACE ON THESE DATES.  It is vitally important that everyone stands together to reject the pay offer as we look to negotiate an improvement.  Only by standing together will…

  • RGU STRIKE – November Dates

    STRIKE – Take Action!  Dates have now been announced for further industrial action at the Robert Gordon University over the derisory 3% pay award this year.  We are asking all members to take strike action and not attend the workplace on the following dates: Thursday 24th November Friday 25th November IT IS CRITICAL THAT ALL…

  • Strike Pay Claim Form

    Members who have taken part in the RGU strike action are eligible to claim strike pay from UNISON.  Strike pay will be paid at the national rate, with a small additional supplement from the branch which will be determined once we have all the claims entered.  Strike pay is not taxable, so you are entitled…

  • Pay Offer for 2017 is “best that can be achieved through negotiation”

    UNISON’s higher education service group met yesterday to discuss the higher education employers’ full and final offer on pay for 2017-18. The final pay offer gives extra increases to the lower paid, between 2.4% and 1.7% up to pay point 16. All staff above point 16 will receive 1.7%. The lowest pay point (spinal column…

  • STRIKE! RGU Dates Announced

    STRIKE – Take Action!  Dates have now been announced for industrial action at the Robert Gordon University over the derisory 3% pay award this year.  We are asking all members to take strike action and not attend the workplace on the following dates: Monday 19th September Monday strike action is no longer taking place due…