The university staff union, the UCU, warned that the growth in student numbers needed to be matched by increased investment in higher education.
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Bosses from the ferry operator and representatives of the shore staff union, the Transport and Salaried Staffs Association, are due to meet on Tuesday for talks.
Negotiations have been continuing with the Nationwide Group Staff Union.
Organizers say 5, 000 staff and union members from affiliated unions will be released to work full-time on the program.
Tomlinson returned a VPN token, his keys, and other things to union staff.
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Two "greedy" Norwich Union staff who defrauded the insurance firm after the severe floods of 2007 have been jailed.
Mr. Barresi also said he was disappointed that no teachers or union staff came to speak at the public meeting.
And ex-Wigan and Great Britain legend Denis Betts, now on the backroom staff at rugby union side Gloucester, has dismissed speculation about him.
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CalMac is to meet the staff's union on Tuesday to discuss changes to weekend and shift allowances, night working payments and annual holiday bonuses.
They argue that fund-raising takes time, and that there is no time to be wasted in reducing our editorial staff by two union members.
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Proposals to cut more than 100 posts at print plants in Cambridgeshire and Essex would be "terrible news" for staff, a union has said.
The decision to move up to 800 civil servant jobs from Belfast to County Londonderry has received a mixed reaction from staff, a union has said.
Mr Clarke said the retailer also denied staff the right to union representation and collective bargaining.
Cheshire-based Salt Union said staff were working around the clock but still could not meet demand.
Susanne Moser is a former staff scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Any walkout could involve more than 300 workers, including contract catering staff, whom the union claims are similarly underpaid.
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The Home Office is pulling in border agency staff who are not union members and civil servants from Whitehall to carry out immigration checks.
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The union said staff feared losing control of the centre after a large fight broke out involving up to 50 detainees armed with knives and pool cues.
The guilds have been preparing for these negotiations for years, hiring staff with extensive labor union experience, and developing joint strategies and a harder line than producers have seen in decades.
We are very much the Cinderellas of public sector pay levels, and we have increasingly fallen behind the private sector and other public sector workers, such as NHS staff and the fire union workers' settlement, for example.
As for our staff represented by the union, we will do our utmost to come to an agreement that would continue the fair treatment of our employees, which has always been, and continues to be, my policy.
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Unison branch secretary Chris Hanrahan, who represents civilian staff working at the force, said the union had been expecting further cuts and predicted civilian staff and police officer jobs could be lost on top of 100 staff already made redundant.
"It is revealing that only around 25% of the union's staff voted to strike, " he said.
Most of the long-haul cabin staff belong to a breakaway union, and they have accepted new conditions.
The union representing ground staff accepted a 5.1% pay rise this year and a 2.3% increase from July 2009.
She claimed that out of the 747 staff affected, 209 were union members and just 43 had voted to strike.
Wayne Thomas, the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in Wales said the union's staff were given the day off on Wednesday.
News that up to 300 jobs may be axed at a Cambridgeshire poultry products factory came as an "enormous shock" to staff, says the Unite union.
The Unison union said management of staff was not the best it could be.
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