1) Pay and Grade Structure Proposals 2024 Our ‘IMPORTANT: University of Bristol UCU consultative ballot (February 2024)’ closes today. Please do complete if you haven’t already: check your email inbox. The branch Executive Committee meets on March 5th to approve or not the proposals [link]. Executive Committee will also approve or not a proposed revision to […]
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1) Pay and Grade Structure Proposals 2024 Members will be consulted shortly about the Pay and Grade Structure Proposals [link], with a view to approve (or not) these changes by March. UNISON are consulting their members on whether to bank these incremental improvements to pay progression; the University of Bristol Unite Branch Executive have recommended approval […]
1) Pay and Grade Structure Proposals 2024 Dear all, At our General Meeting last week, we shared with members the current University Pay and Grade Structure proposals, negotiated by trade union reps and University/HR officers over the course of October, November, and December 2023, and approved by the University Executive Board earlier this month. Bristol […]
1) Pay and Grade Structure Proposals and Branch General Meeting Next Week, Wednesday, 24th Jan., 13:00-14:00, Microsoft Teams We have our first branch General Meeting next week. To join lunchtime Wednesday: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_ZTg3OGZiMWItZGY0ZC00MTFiLTkzZjctNDFlYjYwOTNjZDUy@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%22b2e47f30-cd7d-4a4e-a5da-b18cf1a4151b%22,%22Oid%22:%2213b13f87-fa76-4f29-9904-f9f645bd8649%22%7D On Monday, the pay and grade structure proposals, negotiated with campus union reps and approved by the University Executive Board, will go live. […]
1) Become a Faculty or PS Division UCU Health & Safety Rep The branch is looking to recruit UCU Health and Safety Reps for each Academic Faculty and each Professional Service Division. Interested? Already a trained H&S rep? Email ucu-office@bristol.ac.uk for more information and to volunteer. Trained UCU H&S Reps are granted time off: We are particularly keen for […]
1) Pay and Grade Structure Negotiations With the joint union/University talks scheduled to conclude before Christmas, branch members should expect an update on the outcome of these talks early next year. As noted in the last joint UoB communication, joint unions and HR Officers have been in discussion over a number of proposed incremental improvements […]
1) Extra-Ordinary General Meeting, *Today*, 13:00-14:00, Powell Lecture Theatre (G42), Physics Building, Tyndall Avenue EGM today to discuss and vote on the ‘Motion to End the Violence in Israel-Palestine, Support Palestinian Rights, Protect Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression and Oppose all Racism’. All Bristol UCU members are invited to attend. To read the motion […]
1) Bristol UCU After The Ballot ‘…the main practical question was, in so far as there is a single branch focus, how best to frame and focus branch business in the short to medium term. As branch negotiators and reps, what are we doing going forward sans the focus of national industrial action? Newsflash, for example, […]
1) Still Time to Vote If you haven’t returned your UCU pay and conditions ballot paper, you still can. Pop it in the post and it’ll be counted, fingers crossed, before the ballot closes on Friday. 2) Whither the Pay and Conditions Dispute?: Bristol UCU Strategy Session on the Future of the Pay & Conditions Dispute, […]
1) The Last Week: Have You Voted in the Pay and Conditions Ballot? The last ‘safe’ date to return your ballot by post is Tuesday next week. If you haven’t received your ballot papers yet, you have until Sunday to get a replacement using the online form [link]. To give UCU a mandate to take strike […]