Joint Unions’ letter on the ballot results and Registrar’s letter

Dear Colleagues, We write to you as the officers of the unions recognized by Exeter University to represent their staff for bargaining.  We worked hard with the University to reach an offer of 1% above any national agreement that might be reached by our unions in national negotiations.  The University also agreed to pay the ‘living wage’ to …

Outcome of ballot on local bargaining

Staff at Exeter will have received an email from the Registrar summarising the results of the poll by the three campus unions, and blaming those who voted in the poll (mainly to reject the offer) for denying staff a pay rise. This is clearly ridiculous: the management can pay us more any time. The vote …

Details of the offer on which the campus unions were balloted Nov/Dec 2012

EXETER UCU POLL ON LOCAL PAY BARGAINING The notion of withdrawing from national bargaining was first floated by Exeter University management over a year ago.   UCU members at Exeter gave your negotiators a mandate to engage in informal 'talks about talks' about local bargaining.  We have worked very closely with other recognised Trade Unions, Unite …