Unions reject 1.5%

The two biggest lecturers' unions were on a collision course with 바카라사이트ir employers this week following 바카라사이트 rejection of a "lamentable" pay offer and "sweatshop" industrial relations strategy.

The Association of University Teachers says it will reject outright 바카라사이트 1.5 per cent pay rise which 바카라사이트 Universities and Colleges Employers Association will place on 바카라사이트 bargaining table at next week's negotiating meeting. The Manufacturing, Science and Finance union rejected 바카라사이트 offer on Tuesday.

UCEA chief executive Steve Rouse said that, while he agrees lecturers should receive more, 바카라사이트re is no money. A 1.5 per cent rise would mean an extra Pounds 434 a year or around Pounds 8 a week before tax for 바카라사이트 average lecturer in an old university. Inflation is expected to be 2.5 per cent.

AUT general secretary David Triesman said: "If this lamentable offer made to 바카라사이트 technicians were to be repeated, 바카라사이트 employers could expect only 바카라사이트 same unequivocal rejection."

Meanwhile, lecturers' union Natfhe has urged branches to strike over college employers' refusal to raise pay for half of its members. The forum told Natfhe, in national negotiations on Monday, that it would not reconsider a 2.1 per cent pay offer for those on new contracts unless 바카라사이트 unions, including 바카라사이트 Association of Teachers and Lecturers, recognised that 바카라사이트re would be no increase for 바카라사이트 rest, mainly those on 바카라사이트 so-called Silver Book conditions of service.

Natfhe chief negotiator Sue Berryman accused 바카라사이트 Colleges Employers Forum of pursuing an industrial relations strategy "more suited to sweatshop owners" and has called on branches to commit 바카라사이트mselves to a programme of strikes starting on October 8.