Higher Education

UNISON is one of the largest unions in the higher education sector, with 11 higher education branches in Scotland and 50,000 members across the UK. We represent higher education members employed by universities directly, or who work for a contractor supplying services.

We negotiate nationally and locally to protect pay, terms and conditions and to prevent members from being outsourced to private companies. UNISON representatives help to ensure a safe working environment.

UNISON campaigns for decent pay in universities – including a living wage for the lowest paid – as well as an eradication of the gender pay gap and to stop the use of zero hour contracts and the casualisation of work.

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HE members to vote on industrial action over pay

Ballot will start in autumn following rejection of employers’ final pay offer. UNISON members working in higher education are to ...

Pay Up Now for Higher Education Staff

For many years university pay has not kept up. Not kept up with the cost of your bills, the cost ...

Queen Margaret University strike ballot opens today

There is a live threat of compulsory redundancies at Queen Margaret University. Until that threat is lifted, UNISON members must ...

Higher education members to be balloted on strike action

UNISON’s higher education service group executive is organising a national industrial action ballot after over two thirds of those members who ...

Review of Financial Support for Students

Education is central to both Scotland’s economy and the wider wellbeing of its citizens. Everyone who could benefit from further ...

Code of Good Higher Education Governance

Democratic structures create public bodies which are open and transparent in their dealings with the public. Universities are not businesses, ...

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