The University has received notification that University and College Union’s (UCU) has now written to Universities & Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), to confirm that it notes the outcome of the 2016-17 negotiations and considers the round concluded.
UCU members voted in a consultative ballot which closed on 11 November 2016 to take no further industrial action in connection with the current pay round. UCU members also agreed that the offer was a sufficient basis for further detailed joint work with the employers on gender pay and casual and hourly paid staff.
This means that UCU is now standing down the current work to contract industrial action, as well as the call to external examiners to boycott those duties. UCU has reiterated that it will not take any further industrial action in connection with the pay round.
UNISON has now written to UCEA confirming that it has settled the pay round. Unite National Officers have confirmed that their respective unions accept the pay offer and view the round as settled. However, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) remains in dispute and will continue to call on its members in Scottish HEIs to take action short of a strike.
The final offer was made at the end of April 2016 and the dispute procedure concluded in mid-May. In August, UCEA recommended that individual employers proceeded to implement the pay award, with back pay from 1 August 2016. The University applied the pay award in the September’s payroll.
For further information, please see the UCEA website.
