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Pay offer rejected as unions bide time

Article Abstract:

Academic trade unions in the UK have forced employers to abandon plans to tie staff into a two-year pay deal that would have seen wages rise by 2.5% in 2005 and 3% in 2006. While the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association contends that the deal exceeds the current rate of inflation, representatives from the academic unions argue that the offer does not make up for years of increases that have not kept up with inflation and does not take into account the additional funding that is expected to be generated in 2006 as a result of the introduction of top-up fees.

Personnel administration, Labor organizations, Labor Unions, Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations, Compensation and benefits, Labour unions

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Unions issue deadline on pay deal and promise early action

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Lecturers' unions in the UK have warned that over 100,000 academics could be called out on strike as soon as January 2006 if employers do not commit by 02 December 2005 to spend at least one third of the expected UKPd1 billion additional income from top-up fees on staff wages in 2006. Employers have already suggested that they will not make a commitment to any agreement that is based on projected fee income.

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5% pay offer is 'asking for a fight'

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All six campus trade unions in the UK have united to reject an offer of a 5% pay rise over 2005-06 and 2006-07. The unions have asked for an 11.2% pay rise over one year, with the Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe describing the 5% over two years offer as "insulting" and "simply unacceptable".

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