{"id":373,"date":"2019-09-25T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=373"},"modified":"2019-10-02T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T09:41:16","slug":"when-slimmer-isnt-better-be-the-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2019\/09\/25\/when-slimmer-isnt-better-be-the-xx\/","title":{"rendered":"When slimmer isn&#8217;t better: Be the XX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-369\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>About Pay<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">University salaries have fallen in value by 20% against inflation since 2009.\u00a0 Meanwhile pay for senior managers has grown at a rate beyond inflation, causing the Office for Students to put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeforstudents.org.uk\/news-blog-and-events\/press-and-media\/office-for-students-publishes-first-annual-analysis-of-senior-staff-pay\/\">study<\/a> earlier this year that calls for greater pay restraint at senior levels.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">UCU\u2019s claim for 2019\/20 is RPI plus 3% or a minimum increase of \u00a33,349 (whichever is greater).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u201cOther people in society are paid less than me: I don\u2019t want to be greedy\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">History does not indicate that agreeing to ill treatment results in better conditions for others.\u00a0 Instead it only results in a race to the bottom.\u00a0 Victory will set a standard for other public sector worker conditions.\u00a0 Other trade unions were astonished and encouraged by the success of last year\u2019s UCU campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">For more information see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucu.org.uk\/media\/10185\/UCUBAN54-HE-pay-claim-2019-20\/pdf\/UCUBAN54.pdf\">Branch Action Notice<\/a>, p. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Kent UCU urges you to vote <b>YES<\/b> to action and <b>YES<\/b> to action short of a strike in both ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">TWO BALLOTS \u2022 ONE FUTURE \u2022 BE THE <\/span>XX<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Kent UCU Committee &amp; Reps<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Pay \u00a0University salaries have fallen in value by 20% against inflation since 2009.\u00a0 Meanwhile pay for senior managers has grown at a rate beyond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2019\/09\/25\/when-slimmer-isnt-better-be-the-xx\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155769],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}