“UCU members are currently debating what to do in terms of the way forward in the disputes around pensions, pay and pay-related issues, such as casualisation, workloads and equal pay. The employer is offering ‘new standards, frameworks and principles to tackle other forms of casualised contracts, reduce workloads and close equality pay gaps’.
I am not entirely sure what this means, but I have served on a number of JNCHES working parties.”