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UNISON LGBT CONFERENCE

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UNISON’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Conference 2014 will be held at

the Hilton Hotel, Blackpool, from 1.30pm Friday 21 November to 1.20pm Sunday 23

November 2014. This conference is organised under UNISON’s rules on

selforganisation.  All delegates and visitors to LGBT Conference must themselves be

lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender UNISON members.

 The closing dates form delegates is Friday 26 September 2014  read more

If you wish to attend please email unisonadministrator@shu.ac.uk

 

 

 

SIGN UP A NEW MEMBER

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The week commencing 12th May is UNISON recruitment week.  So please encourage your colleagues to join UNISON.

SHU UNISON Branch is promoting UNISON by having recruitment stalls at both sites with information on the importance and benefits of being in a union.

Members can play a big part in this by:

  • bringing along a potential new member to one of the recruitment stalls.
  • if the new member signs up to join UNISON at a stall SHU UNISON will reward you by reimbursing the cost of an NUS extra card* for both the existing member and the new member.
  • Stalls will be on Campus on Tuesday 13th May between 12-2pm at the Café in the Robert Winston Building Collegiate Campus and in the main entrance at Owen Building City Campus.
  • new members will need to be signed up for a month before the reward can be reimbursed.
  • ensure you leave your details with the UNISON rep on the stall to claim the reward.

(* please note we will cover the cost of the one year option for the card which is £12).

WCML APRIL NEWSLETTER

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WCML pic

 

 

 

Another chance to see the Library’s fascinating
exhibition on working people and science, originally
presented in 2013 to coincide with the 24th
International Congress of History of Science,
Technology and Medicine to echo its theme
“Knowledge at Work”. The exhibition, Knowledge,
work and workers, runs from Thursday 3 April until
Friday 30 May. It highlights hidden aspects of our
collections – topics such as the contributions that
scientists have made to the peace movement,
campaigns to improve public health and the struggles
that trade unions and others have undertaken to make
the workplace a safer place.

This year’s Frow Lecture takes place on Saturday
3 May at 2pm at the Old Fire Station, Salford. Our
speaker will be John Hilary, Executive Director, War on
Want, and author of The Poverty of Capitalism:
Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes
Next.  His topic is Taking the Fight to Global
Capitalism.

Join singers and walkers on Bank Holiday Sunday,
4 May, to commemorate the gathering of thousands of
Chartists on Blackstone Edge in August 1846.
Walk up to the rocky outcrop on Blackstone Edge in
the early afternoon to enjoy the views, to sing, and to
meet and listen to other singers. There will be choirs,
individuals and small groups singing Chartist and other
songs; possibly some people reading poems or talking
about the Chartists; and lots of picnickers
If you would like to contribute a song or reading, or if
you are willing to lead a walk up to the Edge from one
of the valley towns or railway stations, please contact
Gwyneth Morgan at:
gwyneth@blackstoneedgegathering.org.uk
More information at
www.blackstoneedgegathering.org.uk/

HOLD THE DATE – we’re planning a contribution to
Manchester’s Museums at Night evening on
Thursday 15 May.  More soon!

As part of Chorlton Arts Festival a collective of artists
using prose, song, poetry and an exhibition will tell the
story of Manchester’s International Brigaders.  From
Manchester to Madrid takes place at St Ninian’s,
Egerton Road South, M32 0XY on Saturday 17 May,
starting at 7.15pm.

A transnational and comparative labour
movement conference takes place at the University of
Huddersfield on 21 July, organised by the Society for
the Study of Labour History and presenting papers on
topics as varied as ‘transnational allegiances in WWII
Britain’ to ‘the political travel of Dora Montefiore’.   Cost
£15.  More details from Janette Martin,
j.martin@hud.ac.uk

3RD STRIKE DAY CALLED

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branch in action 22 Jan

 

 

 

 

UNISON along with UCU and EIS have announced a further 1 day national strike for the 6 February 2014 in response to the HE employers refusal to improve their inadequate 1% pay offer. Unite are currently undertaking further consultation. The growing inequality in pay in higher education between senior managers and the workforce as a whole has been under the spotlight in the run-up to further strike action.

Universities are refusing to make a decent pay offer, despite holding huge cash reserves, which are predicted to continue for the next few years by the Higher Education Funding Council, which describes university finances as being “sound overall”.

UNISON Branches up and down the country will be protesting next week to highlight the inequality within the sector, as well as the added value that employees contribute to the student experience.

UNISON’s National Secretary Jon Richards said “ Universities are keen to proclaim their success and line the pockets of Vice Chancellors and their cronies with inflation busting rises as a reward. Yet thousands of HE staff earn below the Living Wage. Workers who even the Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges are the “working poor”.

“The money is there to pay more. Staff who have managed to hang onto their jobs through significant changes have seen their workload increase dramatically, yet their incomes have been squeezed to breaking point”.

More than 4,000 staff currently earn less than the living wage despite another year of projected surplus. Pay is being squeezed following five years of pay rises below the cost of living and salaries for staff have fallen in real terms by more than13% over the last five years. Staff have lost between £666 and £3,574 that they would have had if salaries had kept pace with the cost of living. UNISON’s low-paid members are already at the sharp end of the coalition government’s welfare reforms such as the bedroom tax.

What you can do:-

  • Support the strike
  • Join/support our picket lines at Sheffield Hallam University (email Dan Bye your availability)
  • Join the rally called by Higher Educations UNISON, Unite and UCU  at 12pm on 6th February 2014 outside City Hall, Sheffield
  • Sign the online petition calling for Fair Pay in HE: http://www.fairpayinhe.org.uk/

Further information on the pay campaign can be found at:-

https://www.unison.org.uk/at-work/education-services/key-issues/he-pay-dispute/home/