Employers slate AUT for missing crucial pay talks
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Key negotiators for the Association of University Teachers (AUT), an union, missed the crucial talks for this year's pay offer because they were not prepared to attend the previously agreed upon all night negotiating session on the final night of talks in July 2003, employers have claimed. The walkout by the negotiators has been revealed as the AUT has warned its 46,000 members to prepare for strikes if an an improvement is not made to what it terms the "unacceptable" current offer. The AUT has responded by accusing the Joint National Committee for Higher Education Staff of poor administration and criticising the employers for continuing the talks past 3.30am.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Millions wasted on tribunals
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Universities in the United Kingdom are spending millions of pounds on employment tribunals, despite the fact that higher education staff are ten times less likely than other workers nationally to go to tribunal. Research has revealed that universities paid out UKPd250,000 to successful litigants and a further UKPd1.2 million to settle cases early.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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Get a life? Not with our hours
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Academics have greeted the latest guidelines on work-life balance and working hours that have been agreed by trade unions and university employers with scepticism. They point out that the new agreement is simply about guidelines and not requirements, and therefore do nothing to address the fundamental issue of excessive workloads.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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