2023年2月9日 · Today we have agreed to meet Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) with the mediators Acas (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) next Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 February to discuss our pay and working conditions dispute and hopefully a …

2023年2月24日 · The five unions UCU, UNISON, Unite, EIS and GMB, representing staff working in UK higher education confirmed that talks via the conciliation service Acas will continue into next week. The joint unions have continued to push employers, represented by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), on the issues of pay, workload ...

2024年9月5日 · UCU has held multiple meetings over several months with Unite with the aim of bringing the dispute to an end and avoiding any further strike action. Some of these have been facilitated by Acas, others have not. UCU management met with Unite with Acas on several occasions, the most recent being 12 August 2024.

2024年6月19日 · Strike action at the UK’s largest higher education union has been suspended following “constructive discussions” between University and College Union (UCU) management and Unite. UCU staff who are represented by Unite voted to walk out amid accusations of racism, breaches of collective agreements and broken industrial relations .

2024年12月6日 · Talks aimed at averting the strike held at conciliation service Acas on 5 December ended with no resolution between Unite negotiators and UCU’s senior management team. Staff will now walk out on 9-11 December. This will be the third round of strike action taken by the Unite branch.

2023年2月10日 · Students have said they are “absolutely furious” that university staff are having to go on strike in a wage and pension dispute. A University and College Union (UCU) Scotland rally took place on...

2024年12月6日 · Members of Unite working at the University and College Union will down tools between 9 and 11 December after talks held at the Acas conciliation service ended without resolution on 5 December. What started as a dispute over allegations of workplace racism and breaches of collective agreements has escalated with the announcement of a staff ...

2024年10月1日 · UCU management and Unite negotiators met again with Acas on 1 October 2024. The discussion focussed on health and safety matters associated with the current collective dispute. Management side agreed to draft an action plan to …

2024年5月29日 · The second day of the University and College Union’s (UCU) congress, its flagship democratic event, has been thrown into chaos after staff announced strike action in a long-running battle over alleged “workplace racism” and other issues.

2023年5月22日 · As UCU knows, negotiations on pay were completed in mid-February, but Acas talks continued and led to concrete proposals in relation to the reform of the pay spine; the disability, ethnicity and gender pay gaps; workload, and contract types. These proposals were renegotiated and agreed line by line with UCU’s negotiators.