The Guardian: Breakthrough in university pay row
University bosses and lecturers’ leaders have reached a breakthrough in pay talks to end months of industrial action which has hit student exams across Britain.
After negotiations at the TUC in London, the University and College Union (UCU) agreed a new three year deal with the employers’ group UCEA on pay for academics.
The union immediately announced that the national boycott of assessment would be suspended from midnight tonight, with the pay deal put to a ballot of members.
The deal is worth 13.1% over three years but it is worth 15.5% for cleaners, porters, security staff and other non-academic university workers.
The Chronicle,/i>: BREAKTHROUGH IN PAY DISPUTE
British universities and a newly merged national faculty union reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday, ending a grading boycott that some students had feared would delay their graduation. The pact, which still requires the professors’ approval, calls for raises totaling 13.1 percent over three years.
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