Queen’s Speech: A failure to tackle the real problems Britain faces

A Conservative Party at war with itself, already out of ideas little over a year on from election day and a Prime Minister so afraid of his own shadow that he’s abandoned any semblance of a serious legislative agenda.

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Higher education pay offer rejected

UNISON calls on employers to begin dispute resolution procedure after offering a ‘pittance’ to staff

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NEC by-election result

Liz Baptiste elected to the higher education general seat on the union’s national executive council

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University spending on agency staff soars to £200m

‘Casualisation is short sighted, bad for staff and bad for students’ says UNISON, as it reveals growing scale of the problem

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UNISON to consider national employer’s final pay offer 2016/17 for higher education

Employers also offer further joint work on gender pay and casualisation

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Liverpool John Moores University agrees to pay living wage

John Moores joins ‘growing number’ of universities gaining accreditation as living wage employers

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Middlesex University branch wins living wage commitment

Outsourced cleaners ‘so happy’ as six-month campaign pays off with promise of pay rise

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Higher education unions reject initial pay offer for 2016-17

Employers’ initial offer to higher education unions does not include the living wage

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UNISON backs Scottish higher education reform bill

Bill proposing to give unions a seat on all university courts dye to receive third reading in Scottish Parliament

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Universities in the money?

UNISON calls on higher education employers to invest in staff after £1bn+ surplus unveiled for third year in a row

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