The branch has sent it’s additional documentation for the CATE Technical Re-Organisation to UWE management! Our feedback is based on the contribution of staff across CATE, both members and non-members, from individual meetings, written submissions and team meetings. We appreciate the collaboration with UWE UCU Reps, its members and wider academics who recognise the negative […]
Thanks to all members and staff that have submitted feedback to UWE UNISON on the CATE Tech Re-Org so far. The interim report from the union has been submitted and consists of two documents in the files below. One file is a summary report of themes that have come in as submissions to the union […]
Dear members, The consultation period for all staff on the CATE restructure and associated job descriptions begins on Tuesday, 27 January. Management has informed UNISON that around 40-45% of current staff will be directly matched to roles, and additional Grade G posts will be created. It was also confirmed yesterday this is not a cost‑neutral […]
Below is a response from UWE UNISON after today’s email from management… Hi Tod, We’ve now had some time to consider the grievance outcome as a branch. It remains a fundamental disagreement that appropriate consultation took place with recognised trade unions (amongst other points). Resolving this hasn’t been helped by the significant delays into responding […]
On the 12th of March we posted UWE to report on findings of the technician’s collective grievance. It is now over six months since our grievance was presented to UWE and we still have not received a formal written response. Repeated prompting from the union has apparently fallen on deaf ears. The meeting we had […]
On Friday of this week (14th of March), UWE is to feedback to the union its findings in response to the technician’s grievance which was submitted back in September 2024 and UWE UNISON met with managers to discuss the Collective Grievance on 21/11/2024. You may recall the issues were around the Family of Roles. We […]
It’s been a busy start to the new year, straight into the University Transformation Project and the Christmas break seems like a very long time ago! We wanted to let you know about the work we are currently engaged with in this new year. As the university continues its transformation project we are hard at […]
The university has shared a webpage on the next stage of the current phase of its transformation project: https://tinyurl.com/ypmes4k9 If you’re a trade union member affected by the individual consultation where redundancy is a risk, please contact your local Steward for support or the local branch via the generic email (uwe[at]unison.ac.uk) if you wish.
Where team consultation meetings are happening, please forward the invites to your Steward so we can attend to support. Also, please forward questions you’d like the union to ask or respond to if you don’t want to ask during the consultation meetings, simply send them to our email inbox. Resources In response to UWE’s University […]
New job descriptions imposed upon technical staff