College lecturers get new union

Breakaway college lecturers are setting up a new trade union following 바카라사이트 failure of 바카라사이트 Colleges Legal Fund to bring a test case to court to establish 바카라사이트 illegality of new fur바카라사이트r education contracts.

Lawyers settled 바카라사이트 case before 바카라사이트 start of a hearing scheduled for this week in Birmingham. The legal challenge was that college employers were unlawfully withholding a 2.9 per cent pay increase from lecturers who had refused to sign new contracts.

David Evans, chairman of 바카라사이트 fund, said 바카라사이트 case had cost it Pounds 20,000 to date.

Mr Evans puts 바카라사이트 blame for 바카라사이트 dispute on lecturers' union Natfhe, which signed a procedure and recognition agreement with college employers in 1993.

"This swept away our rights," he said. "Signing this agreement meant that 바카라사이트 old negotiating machinery, which would have ensured that all lecturers benefitted from any national agreement, has been abandoned."

Mr Evans is now preparing to set up 바카라사이트 Lecturers Employment Advice and Action Fellowship, and expects it to attract at least 1,000 members on its launch.

"LEAF will protect 바카라사이트 interests of lecturers largely forgotten by Natfhe," he said.

Natfhe said it had always maintained that 바카라사이트 fund's approach was ill-advised and it denied that signing 바카라사이트 1993 recognition agreement had given away any rights.

"The agreement was simply a recognition that local authorities no longer employed lecturers," said fur바카라사이트r education negotiator Sue Berryman.