Created on: 12 Aug 2025
This is the second week of the ULA consultative ballot and we are asking all EIS ULA members to cast their vote as soon as possible. You should have received an email with a link that will direct you to a voting page. The EIS ULA Executive recommend voting NO to accepting the pay offer and voting YES to taking strike action.
If you have not yet received the email with a link to the online voting page, please email ballot@eis.org.uk with your name and home address and we will arrange for another email to be sent to you. I would also ask you to update your personal details here to include your home address and mobile phone number, so we can keep you up-to-date with information on the current ballot.
The EIS attended two dispute meetings last week, where the Joint TUs were seeking an improved monetary offer to be tabled by UCEA. As expected, there was no improved offer tabled. This means that your employer is still only offering you 1.4% as a pay uplift, even though inflation is more than double this figure.
It is vitally important that all members use their democratic right to vote and have their voices heard. The decision whether to push back against a derisory offer from university employers and actively seek an improved offer rests in the hands of ULA members. It is clear that they are not going to offer more unless members are willing to vote to take industrial action.
The EIS is a democratic trade union led by its members. The Executive Committee is made up of serving academic staff working here in Scotland. It has made a recommendation to members to reject the pay offer and to vote for industrial action because it believes that this is the right thing to do.
We are working with the other four HE recognised trade unions at New JNCHES in a common cause to get a better pay offer for all of us.
However, the Universities are “hard employers” and it will take a fight for them to decide to share their pay more equally for non-senior staff. We must be prepared to vote and follow this campaign through. If we do not act together, then our pay will continue to fall in real terms….
Cast your vote as soon as you can and remember to VOTE NO to the pay offer and VOTE YES to taking strike action.