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 2015
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 top of the range Amazon Kindle Voyage, with FREE 3G and Wi-fi and a £50 Voucher to…
-
Young Members Weekend 2015
Last week over 100 young members in UNISON met in Nottingham for a "Young Members" weekend. As you'll see from the video they shot, they had a great conference and entered into some excellent discussions and debates. Are you under 27 and wondering about joining UNISON? Are you already a young member in UNISON and…
-
May Day Events – March & BBQ!
May Day International Workers’ Day Aberdeen March & Rally 4th May 11:00am-12:30pm Start at Rubislaw Terrace Gardens to march down Union Street for rally at Castlegate Come along for the march or the rally! If you’d be able to help out and carry the UNISON branch banner just contact us and let us know! Young…
-
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…
-
HE Unions Reject Initial Pay Offer
Higher education unions, including UNISON, and employers are due to meet again to discuss this year’s pay rise on 10 May. At the last meeting on Friday 13 April, higher education employers offered to increase pay by 1.7%, or £325 a year (full-time equivalent), whichever is higher. The joint trade unions replied that university workers…
-
We’re Worth More! Vote YES for Strike Action
The University and Colleges Employers Association have made their final pay offer: a below-inflation pay rise of 3% for most Higher Education staff and between 9% and 3% for those on pay points 3 to 19. They didn’t offer any more during the dispute process and will now impose this pay increase on 1 August 2022.…