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MEMBER ACTION: Post your vote. EIS-ULA are recommending you vote YES to Strike action and YES to Action Short of Strike Action.
If you have not received a ballot paper please email ballot@eis.org.uk
Without taking action, nothing will change.
Campaign Bulletin 2: 18% real terms pay cut.
When it comes to your pay the employers plead poverty. They claim they cannot afford staff fair pay rises while simultaneously claiming they offer generous pay.
The truth is the pay awards they have been imposing in recent years are about choices. Universities are choosing to spend on things other than staff. The reason is that when it comes to priorities, staff pay is well down the list for most Universities.
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Institution Reserves
2019- 2020 ( m)
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Institution Reserves
2021-2022 ( )
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% change in
reserves
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Aberdeen
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347,241,000
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348,793,000
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0.45%
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Abertay
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19,296,000
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67,502,000
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249.82%
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Dundee
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144,392,000
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185,228,000
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28.28%
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Edinburgh
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2,168,000,000
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2,438,600,000
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12.48%
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Edinburgh Napier
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21,173,000
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147,582,000
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597.03%
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Glasgow
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864,581,000
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981,800,000
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13.56%
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Glasgow Caledonian
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110,252,000
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238,752,000
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116.55%
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Glasgow School of Art
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33,739,000
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65,372,000
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93.76%
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Heriot Watt
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43,122,000
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72,933,000
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69.13%
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Queen Margaret
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62,953,000
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111,913,000
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77.77%
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Robert Gordon
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135,932,000
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213,084,000
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56.76%
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St Andrews
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308,916,000
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380,589,000
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23.20%
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Stirling
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135,931,000
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139,494,000
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2.62%
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Strathclyde
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319,000,000
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219,100,000
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-31.32%
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UWS
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24,610,000
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154,306,000
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527.01%
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18% real terms pay cut to 2023/24 salary compared to 2019/20 if it had risen by inflation (RPI)
While staff have endured year after year of severe real terms pay cuts, most Universities have seen their reserves grow as you can see from the table below. Your pay is down, reserves in the higher education sector are up in most institutions.
Employers must start to value their workforce over other areas. They need to prioritise the quality of education in terms of those who deliver that education, not to prioritise state-of-the-art buildings or new initiatives by overworked and underpaid staff.
Ultimately, only staff can change this way of thinking. We must force the employers to sit up and listen to the people who work on the front line of Higher Education in order to get a fair pay rise.
Vote YES to Strike and YES to Action Short of Strike today!
#FairPayToday
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