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Reasons to vote #YesYes
1 October 2019
Act to halt the scandal of insecure and casualised employment in HE!
Check your post! Have you received your ballot for the pay and equality claim? If not you can order a replacement ballot. Have you voted?
Today, Tuesday 1 October 2019, is the 17th anniversary of the implementation of the Fixed-Term Employee (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations, 2002, which stipulate that anyone employed continuously on one or more insecure (fixed-term) contract/s for four years should be transferred to a permanent contract.
However, far from increasing transfers to permanent contracts and reducing the use of fixed-term contracts:
- Over 100,000 people of around 430,000 working in HE are employed on fixed-term contracts;
- A further 70,000 staff are employed on other casual (“atypical”) contracts;
- Other staff are regularly employed on single or consecutive contracts which, while called “open-ended”, nonetheless have an end date subject to funding;
- The majority of research staff are still on fixed-term contracts.
Our pay and equality claim, jointly with four other unions, asks HE employers to demonstrate that they care for their staff by acting to reduce the increasing levels of casualisation in HE.
Vote #YesYes: 'yes' for strike action, and 'yes' for action short of a strike.
Please come to our branch meeting tomorrow, Wednesday 2 October, 1-2 pm in Chadwick G08 to discuss the ballots and action (this is an accessible venue).
There are two ballots happening simultaneously:
- pay/equality claim to address workloads, insecurity, salaries, equality;
- plus USS pensions.
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(The figures above are from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), 2017-18)