National Pay Claim – Ballot 2013
You will soon receive UCU pay ballot papers. In this ballot you are asked to respond to the latest pay settlement offer of just 1%. Along with our national pay negotiation team the St Andrews UCU committee recommend you reject the employers’ 1% offer
Read MorePay “increase” for 2013/14
UCU, along with the other campus unions, has been in discussion with the employers over the pay increase for 2013-14. The best offer put forward by the employers is only 1% – representing a further real-terms cut in pay.
Read MoreSTOP THE BEDROOM TAX!
Stop The Bedroom Tax! UCU St Andrews are hosting an open meeting on Wednesday 1 May at 130pm in UCO School 1 Lecture Theatre. The meeting is open to all staff and students.
Read MoreAnnual General Meeting – 1 May!
* Reports on branch activity and successes
* Annual accounts
* National conference update
* STOP THE BEDROOM TAX! A talk by Jack Ferguson, UNITE Community Organiser
Stress as an Industrial Injury: How UCU members can put their experience on the record
An accident is normally defined as an unforeseen event that causes harm, usually taken to mean physical harm; a fall resulting in a broken wrist, for example. Stress-related illness is now the most common reason for absence from work, but such absence is rarely formally recorded, as there is no specific event that could be categorised as an ‘accident’. However, under certain circumstances, an unforeseen event at work that causes stress-related harm and consequent absence may be defined as an ‘accident’.
Read MoreUCU Scotland Congress – motions published
Motions for debate at the UCU Scotland Congress 2013.
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