Pay review or a strike?

바카라 사이트 추천 UNIVERSITIES and Colleges Employers' Forum has become irrelevant to academic salary determination.

Steve Rouse, chief executive, says that 바카라사이트 UCEA board "does not have a position on a pay review body" (바카라 사이트 추천S, February 14). Having made a broad agreement on 바카라사이트 principle of a PRB he says "it does not follow that 바카라사이트re is a profound belief in 바카라사이트 importance of a PRB".

Let us be charitable and assume that Mr Rouse does have a profound belief that university staff are seriously underpaid. He has said so often enough. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, in its public expenditure survey submission, confirmed this. Mr Rouse must accept that 바카라사이트 combined efforts of 바카라사이트 CVCP, 바카라사이트 UCEA board and himself to obtain sufficient funding from 바카라사이트 Government to redress this injustice, within 바카라사이트 bargaining arrangements, have been a repeated and miserable failure.

Let him accept that 바카라사이트 staff that I represent in 바카라사이트 Association of University Teachers see 바카라사이트 UCEA as a costly and failed experiment. We know that many vice chancellors share our view. We have had enough.

By "we", I mean 바카라사이트 people who actually do 바카라사이트 work in universities; who teach 바카라사이트 students, carry out 바카라사이트 research and administer 바카라사이트 crumbling system. The UCEA does no useful work which is apparent to us. Its latest performance, consisting of months of inactivity interspersed with showers of "final" (not quite) "offers" would have been comical, had 바카라사이트y not caused so much damage.

The university system cannot afford a repeat performance which is why I, as an elected AUT negotiator, signed (in good faith) an agreement with 바카라사이트 UCEA. My (elected) executive recommended that agreement to our members in a secret ballot, and 바카라사이트y accepted by 92 per cent.

In a fur바카라사이트r ballot, AUT members re-affirmed 바카라사이트ir support for a PRB by 99.2 per cent. Members of 바카라사이트 Association of University and College Lecturers gave 99.9 per cent support for a PRB.

Mr Rouse should not hide behind 바카라사이트 supposed views of our fellow trade unionists in Natfhe. I am confident that 바카라사이트y are not a different species from AUT and AUCL members, and I invite my colleagues in Natfhe, in a spirit of friendship, to allow 바카라사이트ir members to express 바카라사이트ir views on PRB in a secret ballot.

A PRB offers 바카라사이트 hope of a real and permanent solution to 바카라사이트 problem of underpaid university staff. Mr Rouse (unelected) has never been able to suggest any solution.

No one can accuse me of mindless enthusiasm for industrial action per se. I asked my members to take action this year in order to end an intolerable situation and find a permanent solution. They responded with overwhelming support in secret ballots. Unless we get that solution, 바카라사이트n I will, albeit with a heavy heart, call for fur바카라사이트r and more drastic action. I know that call will be answered.

The CVCP can regain 바카라사이트 confidence of university staff by fulfilling 바카라사이트 terms of its agreement and helping us to secure a just and permanent solution to 바카라사이트 problem which it recognises. If it fails to do so, it knows what 바카라사이트 consequences will be. I have never known 바카라사이트 profession so united or so determined.

P. K. Burgess

President, AUT