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HE wages lag far behind the national average, and even behind public sector pay. Since 2009, our salaries have failed to keep pace with inflation. An annual pay increase 1% below RPI here, a year of pay freeze there –…
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Female staff working for the University of Oxford earn on average 13.7% less than male staff. This means, for example, that: male academics earned on average £7,626 more in 2016 than their female colleagues effectively, women worked for free from…
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According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), in 2018 there were 72,000 staff on highly casualised ‘atypical’ academic contracts. At least 51,094 university teaching staff are on hourly-paid contracts, and at least 12,567 on zero-hours contracts. At the same…
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You can influence USS and University of Oxford management by completing the USS consultation We would strongly like to encourage all members to complete the USS pensions consultation. The consultation closes on Friday 2 November at 5pm. This consultation is…
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Oxford UCU’s pensions update for October 2018 A great deal has happened with USS since our strike. Here is a big catch up post on pensions. To summarise: We went on strike against the proposal to downgrade our pensions to…
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