URGENT! Key Branch Roles need filling

 

Dear Members,

Effective immediately, I resign from the UNISON @ LJMU Branch as well as UNISON the Union.

Members are going to have to step up and replace my voluntary positions as:

 

• Branch Treasurer

• Branch Communications Officer

• Branch LGBT+ Officer

• Work Place Representative/Steward

• Safety Representative

Information about all of these and more can be found HERE

 

I also resign from my position on the UNISON North West LGBT+ Group.

 

• Treasurer 

• Regional Committee Member

 

I have served, protected and fought for your rights and a better workplace and world for all, for the past twenty years. It’s been a journey and a half. Good luck for the future.

 

Ray.

PAY 2023/24 - UPDATE

 Dear Unison Member,

When we consulted you on the final pay offer from UCEA in January/ February this year we received a very strong vote to reject the offer; 82% voted to reject on a 34.3% turnout. Since then, the joint trade unions went into a dispute resolution process facilitated by ACAS and UCEA made a slightly amended offer without changing the overall percentage increases, just offering to bring forward implementation of a slightly larger portion of this to 1 February 2023: a consolidated increase added to the annual salary of £1000 or 2% whichever is the greater. The employers then made clear that there was absolutely no further money on offer.

The Higher Education Service Group Executive considered this slight change in the offer and decided not to waste members' time by consulting you again, as it did not represent a substantive improvement. As a result, we are writing to you to explain that UNISON will not be running another all-member consultation on this slightly revised offer which has now been imposed in the majority of HEIs.

Instead, the HE SGE decided to push ahead with strike ballots over 2023-24 pay instead, and let that be the measure of what members think of this slightly changed offer. Ballots over 2023-24 pay will be run in two phases. The first phase ballot, of a small advance party of HEIs in England only, opens on 4 April and closes on 9 May to deliver a mandate for impactful strike action from 1 June around the administration of exams and assessments.

 

Our branch and the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope will be part of this advance ballot. We need to continue our efforts to get a successful industrial action ballot and that means you the members need to Vote, as you know we need to get over 50% of our members to vote and then out of those that do vote we need to be over 50% in favour of strike action. When this happens we will be in a position to hold JMU and ACEA accountable for a below-inflation pay award.

 

Some important Dates:

Ballot opens on 04/04/2023

Ballot Hotline opens 11/04/2023

Last date to Join Unison to be included in the Ballot 26/04/2023

Ballot hotline closes 02/05/2023 (noon)

Actual Ballot closes 09/05/2023(10am)

Results of ballot released    09-10/05/2023

Window for industrial action opens from 01/06/2023

 

More information will follow soon.

Best wishes

UNISON@LJMU 

Industrial Action - Concluded

Selected Buildings for Action

 

UNISON@LJMU Press Release

Members of the Media Communications, please find the link to download the UNISON@LJMU Branch Press Release HERE.

Better Pay Postcard Campaign - Victory!

Call to Action

 

Pay a Real Living Wage

 

Why LJMU Staff are taking Action

 

LJMU 2021 Financial Return

Get yourself protected - TODAY!

Check out UNISON@LJMU www.unisonljmu.org.uk

University Management now lies to Students

 

UNISON@LJMU's Response to the VC's E-Mail

Vice-Chancellor's Response

Unison industrial action

Dear all

I am writing to update all staff that yesterday we were served with a formal notice of industrial action from Unison with confirmation that they will be calling for their members to strike on Monday 26^th September, which is the first day of teaching for many of our students.  Unison have also identified 4^th October and 11^th October as additional strike days.

This is extremely disappointing, and I was particularly shocked that the notice was served as we begin a period of national mourning when we are urging our communities to come together with respect and compassion.

As a university, we are part of national pay negotiations by which we are bound and prevent us from setting our own annual pay award.  It is worth noting that we tried to influence the outcome of the negotiations at every step and also that all of our recognised trades unions have expressed a preference to remain in the national pay negotiations.  The national award of 3% was paid to all staff in August.

Just last week I wrote to all staff with the announcement that we are making provision to pay staff a one-off sum of up to £1,000 for the lowest paid staff which represents a double digit increase for staff on the lowest grades.

At LJMU we have always been a fair and supportive employer, throughout the entire pandemic we supported every single member of staff, regardless of individual roles and we have introduced hybrid working as standard practice across the university which makes this a particularly dismaying response from Unison.

We will assemble a set of principles for staff to consider in advance of strike action and this will be communicated shortly.  From this moment though, no member of staff may book leave for the days above – if leave has already been booked and approved we will honour that commitment with no detriment, and hybrid working will be suspended in the lead up to and on the planned strike days.

I am sorry to have to bring you this news. We will of course have contingency arrangements in place to make sure that the planned days of action don’t disrupt the experience of our students and have minimum impact on the rest of the staff.  

Best wishes

Mark 

Professor Mark Power

Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive 

Get down to the lines!

 

IN IT TO WIN IT (Sept)

 

Strike Days Announced - Call to Action

 

Branch E-News - Issue 45

Dear Members,

You can find the - E-News - Issue 45 HERE

Many Thanks,

UNISON @ LJMU

You can access our E-News Archive HERE

Start of UCU’s Ballot on HE Pay 22/23

 

Ballot Results - Pay Ballot 22/23