My recent tertiary education update says:
AUT CALL ONE-DAY STRIKE ACROSS UK
AUT members have voted to begin a campaign of industrial action in support
of their pay claim, following rejection of a 3.5% pay increase offer from
employers. 58% of those voting backed the industrial action plan, with
the
first one-day strike scheduled for 25 May. An escalating industrial
action
campaign is planned to begin in June in pursuit of the claim. AUT general
secretary, David Triesman, said members were offered only meagre increases
-half the 7 per cent increase vice-chancellors had given themselves this
year. The AUT calculates university lecturers have slipped behind other
public sector professions by 35 per cent.
Do any UK colleagues have anything to add to this report?
Lawrence
Dr. Lawrence D. Berg
School of Global Studies
Massey University
Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North
Aotearoa/New Zealand
after 1 August:
Dept. of Geography
University of Victoria
PO Box 3050, Victoria, BC
Canada
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web: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwgeog/ldb.html
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