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2018 Pay and Equality Ballot: What are the stakes? Join today! https://www.ucu.org.uk/join www.facebook.com/cambridgeucu www.ucu.cam.ac.uk Twitter @CambridgeUCU

What does UCU do? • The trade union in HE and FE for: • National bargaining includes: • Academic-related staff (grades 6+) • USS pensions • Academic and research staff • Pay and working conditions (grades 5+) • Local campaigns include: • Graduate students (free!) • Anti-casualisation • Nationwide: • Gender Pay Gap • 136,000 members • Anti-Racism • 16,000 joined in the last year! • Individual advice and support, • Local branch: 1,800 members backed by a legal scheme

Pay negotiation: • Yearly negotiations between 5 trade unions overview and UCEA (employers). • What we asked for: • 7.5% pay rise: “catch up and keep up”. • Commitments on the gender pay gap, precariousness, and workloads. • Offer: 2% pay rise – another real-terms pay cut. • Ongoing postal ballot, closes on October 19 th . • Vote YES to Industrial Action, and YES to Action Short of a Strike.

Point 38 salary (units: 100 in 2009) 100 80 85 90 95 Real-terms wages: depreciation since 2009 Jan-09 Jun-09 Nov-09 Apr-10 Real-terms salary: RPI-adjusted Sep-10 Feb-11 Jul-11 Dec-11 May-12 Oct-12 Mar-13 Aug-13 Jan-14 Jun-14 Nov-14 CPIH-adjusted Apr-15 Sep-15 Feb-16 Jul-16 Dec-16 May-17 Oct-17 Mar-18

HE wages are falling behind Units: Jan ‘05 = 100 110.00 108.00 106.00 104.00 102.00 100.00 98.00 96.00 94.00 Jan-05 Jul-05 Jan-06 Jul-06 Jan-07 Jul-07 Jan-08 Jul-08 Jan-09 Jul-09 Jan-10 Jul-10 Jan-11 Jul-11 Jan-12 Jul-12 Jan-13 Jul-13 Jan-14 Jul-14 Jan-15 Jul-15 Jan-16 Jul-16 Jan-17 Jul-17 Jan-18 CPIH-adjusted academic wages Nationwide CPIH-adjusted wages Source: Office for National Statistics

Employers can afford to pay more 57.00% 50 45 56.00% 40 35 55.00% 30 54.00% 25 20 53.00% 15 10 52.00% 5 51.00% 0 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 Staff costs as % of income Reserves (£ billion) Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency

Cambridge: swelling financial reserves… 3300 2800 2300 1800 1300 800 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 £ Million, CPI-adjusted Source: UCAM Annual Financial Reports (The Reporter)

…and Vice -Chancellor pay £400,000 £350,000 £300,000 £250,000 £200,000 £150,000 £100,000 £50,000 £0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Cambridge Vice-Chancellor pay, CPI-adjusted Median academic pay (spine point 38), CPI-adjusted

Cambridge: soaring capital expenditure 400 • What priorities? 350 • Financed NW Cambridge devt. 300 • £1bn in bond debt 250 • Pay off with rental income from 200 NW “affordable” housing – no 150 long-term cap on rents! 100 • Board of Scrutiny: sub-inflation 50 pay increases are unsustainable 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 £ Million Source: UCAM Board of Scrutiny

Cambridge: large pay supplements for the few £ Million Market-Pay Supplements (MPSs) • MPSs in 2017: 3.5 • 70 women 3.0 • 180 men 2.5 • Increased reliance as real-terms 2.0 1.5 pay depreciates 1.0 • Gender Pay Gap at Cambridge: 0.5 • 20.0% in 2017 0.0 2009 2010 2012 2014 2016 2017 • Growing share due to bonus pay Total MPSs, RPIJ-adjusted, paid to men paid to women Source: UCAM Gender Pay Gap reports

Precariousness in HE at record highs • HE staff nationwide: • 70,000 (25% of total) on fixed-term contracts • 72,000 (26% of total) on “atypical” contracts – incl. zero hours, hourly paid,… • Despite sector-wide parity, men hold 27% more open-ended contracts than women. • Cambridge: • 4,000 postdocs – doubled in 15 years • 898 staff with TES contracts last year Sources: • Higher Education Statistics Agency • UCAM PdOC Society • FOI request on TES

Workloads: an alarming trend • 38% academics work over five hours at the weekend • Over the last 3 years, 4 out of 5 staff report: • Increase in pace of work • Increase in administrative work • Staff on 0.3 FTE and under contracts work 190% of contracted hours • Cambridge: 53h work / week! Sources: 2016 UCU survey, 2018 THE survey

Your vote counts! • 2017 anti-union laws: • 50% threshold requirement • Talk to your colleagues! • Mail your ballot for Oct. 19 • Vote YES to Industrial Action and YES to Action Short of a Strike

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