Higher Education

UNISON_HEStrikeOct2013UNISON 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.

Latest news

Strikes in Scottish universities begin today, says UNISON 

More than 1,000 support staff in universities across Scotland are to strike from today (Monday) in a dispute over pay, ... Read More

Glasgow Caledonian University Support Staff Strike For Pay Justice, says UNISON

UNISON members at Glasgow Caledonian University will strike today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday), to protest another imposed, below-inflation national pay ... Read More

Breakthrough pay deal agreed by University of Glasgow UNISON

UNISON members at the University of Glasgow have voted to accept a breakthrough pay deal that will see overall pay ... Read More

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Latest documents

HE members to vote on industrial action over pay

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

HE Pay leaflet
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

UNISON Higher Education
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

Have your say on HE pay
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

thumbnail of review of student finance Aug 2017
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

thumbnail of CODE OF GOOD HE GOVERNANCE June 2017
Democratic structures create public bodies which are open and transparent in their dealings with the public. Universities are not businesses, ...

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