Category: Members

  • 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…

  • Thank You Julie

    Aberdeen Universities Branch bid a fond farewell to Julie Yackiminie as she stood down from her post as branch chair after many years of service to UNISON.  Colin Jones, UNISON Convener at the Robert Gordon University said, “I became involved in UNISON twenty years ago when Julie asked for people to help ‘give out leaflets’. …

  • Branch Christmas Competition 2022 – RESULTS

    The branch held our prize draw for our fantastic Christmas Competition yesterday and we're pleased to announce we now have our three prize winners and fourteen runners up for this year. This year we had Fifteen £50 Vouchers up for grabs! Our prize winners draw was overseen by branch committee members, Jim Florence, Shirley Cooper…

  • 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…

  • Branch Christmas Competition 2018 – Results

    The branch held our prize draw for our fantastic Christmas Competition and we're pleased to announce we now have our five prize winners for this year. The prizes this year were: an amazing MSI GL62M Gaming Laptop, with NVIDIA GTX 1050 graphics and Intel Core processor.  our ever popular Dinner and a Show for Two…

  • 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…

  • HE unions submit 2015-16 pay claim

    Higher education unions have submitted a joint pay claim for 2015-16 to the national employers' organisation, the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). The claim has been submitted by UNISON, UCU, Unite, GMB and EiS and covers two main areas – pay and pay-related equality matters – which the unions want to negotiate concurrently. The…

  • UNISON Legal Services

    Did you know that one of the benefits of membership is access to UNISON's legal services?

  • State Funeral – Strike Dates Change

    Following the events of the last week, and the subsequent national mourning period and planned state funeral for HM Queen Elizabeth II, the strike action due to take place at RGU on Monday 19th September has now been cancelled. The state funeral marks the end of the national mourning period and employers will be working…

  • Not Good Enough! Vote YES for Strike Action!

    What did you think of the latest higher education pay offer for 2021/2? Not good enough. That’s what we think. A measly 1.5% pay rise – for the majority of staff – is all they think you’re worth. With inflation running at over 3%, this is a real terms pay cut. Plus the value of…