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15 August 2007
The long-running pay dispute in Northern Ireland's further education sector looks set to escalate following the union's rejection of a 'derisory' pay offer at a…
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4 July 2007
UCU members at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College recently staged a high profile lunchtime protest outside college entrances to draw attention to the failure of…
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20 June 2007
Lecturers at Craven College in Skipton are contemplating taking unprecedented industrial action including strikes. Members of UCU are becoming increasingly frustrated…
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21 May 2007
Lecturers in six further education colleges in London are balloting on proposals for industrial action, including strike action, over redundancies arising from…
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21 May 2007
At a meeting of the National Joint Forum on Wednesday 16 May the Association of Colleges offered 2% from 1 August 2007 plus 0.5% from 1 January 2008 on all scales…
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13 April 2007
UCU has welcomed the appointment of Sir Reg Empey as Minister for employment and learning in the Northern Ireland Executive. UCU joint general secretary Sally Hunt…
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30 March 2007
Unions representing college lecturers and support staff have submitted their pay claim for 2007-08. A joint pay claim has been submitted by college unions UCU,…
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28 March 2007
Lecturers at Northern Ireland's 16 further education colleges are set to take strike action again today. This is the seventh strike in the long running pay dispute…
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21 March 2007
UCU today said the chancellor needed to demonstrate his commitment to all areas of education. The union welcomed the extra money for the education sector, but warned…
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8 March 2007
An industrial tribunal has ruled that further education colleges in Northern Ireland failed to pay over 70 lecturers their proper pay since 2001. The decision,…
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