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2018 Pay and Equality Ballot: What are the stakes?

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What does UCU do?

• The trade union in HE and FE for:
• Academic-related staff (grades 6+)
• Academic and research staff

(grades 5+)

• Graduate students (free!)
• Nationwide:
• 136,000 members
• 16,000 joined in the last year!
• Local branch: 1,800 members
• National bargaining includes:
• USS pensions
• Pay and working conditions
• Local campaigns include:
• Anti-casualisation
• Gender Pay Gap
• Anti-Racism
• Individual advice and support,

backed by a legal scheme

Pay negotiation:

• verview
• Yearly negotiations between 5 trade unions

and UCEA (employers).

• What we asked for:
• 7.5% pay rise: “catch up and keep up”.
• Commitments on the gender pay gap,

precariousness, and workloads.

• Offer: 2% pay rise – another real-terms pay cut.
• Ongoing postal ballot, closes on October 19th.
• Vote YES to Industrial Action, and YES to Action

Short of a Strike.

Real-terms wages: depreciation since 2009

80 85 90 95 100 Jan-09 Jun-09 Nov-09 Apr-10 Sep-10 Feb-11 Jul-11 Dec-11 May-12 Oct-12 Mar-13 Aug-13 Jan-14 Jun-14 Nov-14 Apr-15 Sep-15 Feb-16 Jul-16 Dec-16 May-17 Oct-17 Mar-18

Point 38 salary (units: 100 in 2009) Real-terms salary: RPI-adjusted CPIH-adjusted

HE wages are falling behind

94.00 96.00 98.00 100.00 102.00 104.00 106.00 108.00 110.00

Jan-05 Jul-05 Jan-06 Jul-06 Jan-07 Jul-07 Jan-08 Jul-08 Jan-09 Jul-09 Jan-10 Jul-10 Jan-11 Jul-11 Jan-12 Jul-12 Jan-13 Jul-13 Jan-14 Jul-14 Jan-15 Jul-15 Jan-16 Jul-16 Jan-17 Jul-17 Jan-18

CPIH-adjusted academic wages Nationwide CPIH-adjusted wages

Source: Office for National Statistics

Units: Jan ‘05 = 100

Employers can afford to pay more

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 51.00% 52.00% 53.00% 54.00% 55.00% 56.00% 57.00%

2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17

Staff costs as % of income Reserves (£ billion)

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency

Cambridge: swelling financial reserves…

800 1300 1800 2300 2800 3300

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Source: UCAM Annual Financial Reports (The Reporter)

£ Million, CPI-adjusted

…and Vice-Chancellor pay

£0 £50,000 £100,000 £150,000 £200,000 £250,000 £300,000 £350,000 £400,000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Cambridge Vice-Chancellor pay, CPI-adjusted Median academic pay (spine point 38), CPI-adjusted

Cambridge: soaring capital expenditure

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

£ Million Source: UCAM Board of Scrutiny

• What priorities?
• Financed NW Cambridge devt.
• £1bn in bond debt
• Pay off with rental income from

NW “affordable” housing – no long-term cap on rents!

• Board of Scrutiny: sub-inflation

pay increases are unsustainable

Cambridge: large pay supplements for the few

• MPSs in 2017:
• 70 women
• 180 men
• Increased reliance as real-terms

pay depreciates

• Gender Pay Gap at Cambridge:
• 20.0% in 2017
• Growing share due to bonus pay

Source: UCAM Gender Pay Gap reports 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 2009 2010 2012 2014 2016 2017

Market-Pay Supplements (MPSs)

Total MPSs, RPIJ-adjusted, paid to men paid to women £ Million

Precariousness in HE at record highs

• HE staff nationwide:
• 70,000 (25% of total) on fixed-term contracts
• 72,000 (26% of total) on “atypical” contracts – incl. zero hours, hourly paid,…
• Despite sector-wide parity, men hold 27% more open-ended

contracts than women.

• Cambridge:
• 4,000 postdocs – doubled in 15 years
• 898 staff with TES contracts last year

Sources:

• Higher Education Statistics Agency
• UCAM PdOC Society
• FOI request on TES

Workloads: an alarming trend

• 38% academics work over five hours at the weekend
• Over the last 3 years, 4 out of 5 staff report:
• Increase in pace of work
• Increase in administrative work
• Staff on 0.3 FTE and under contracts work 190% of contracted hours
• Cambridge: 53h work / week!

Sources: 2016 UCU survey, 2018 THE survey

Your vote counts!

• 2017 anti-union laws:
• 50% threshold requirement
• Talk to your colleagues!
• Mail your ballot for Oct. 19
• Vote YES to Industrial Action and

YES to Action Short of a Strike

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