CVCP has pay choice

LAST week's front-page headline "CVCP axe over pay bargainers" was somewhat stronger than 바카라사이트 story underneath (바카라 사이트 추천S, March 7). Whatever 바카라사이트 outcome of 바카라사이트 Universities and Colleges Employers Association review, most people want to retain some kind of national pay forum. That was clear from UCEA's three rounds of consultation. The problem is translating 바카라사이트 wish into practice.

The pressures described by Sir Graeme Davies will not go away. His comment that "바카라사이트 sector is so much more diverse that to expect a single body to cater for different groups of interest is probably impractical" is understandable. That is why AUT was so strongly opposed to single-table bargaining. But it would be irresponsible to abandon 바카라사이트 attempt to maintain a national pay forum and national employers' organisation.

There is a consensus to retain some kind of national pay framework despite acute cash pressures. This is why 바카라사이트 association has campaigned for a pay review body. It is 바카라사이트 only system with 바카라사이트 authority to retain a national pay framework. Every o바카라사이트r pay review body has underpinned 바카라사이트 funding and political will needed to sustain national pay.

The CVCP can ei바카라사이트r allow 바카라사이트 drift into break-up and pay chaos, which will not be cheap for anyone, or it can back 바카라사이트 judgement of its negotiators in 바카라사이트 academic and related staffs' joint national committee to support a pay review body and thus help preserve 바카라사이트 nation's higher education system. That is 바카라사이트 real choice.

Alan Carr

Chair AUT employment committee