Our new area organiser Lorraine Fitzsimons will be holding branch advisory surgeries every Tuesday at our branch.

If you wish to discuss any issues or concerns you may have please email unison@sheffield.ac.uk or call our branch administrator on  222829 to arrange an appointment.

Availability:

12:00 – 12:30

12:45 – 13:15

13:30 – 14:00

Appointments are booked on a first come first served basis.

*Please note* there are no branch surgeries on: 18 April, 25 April, 23 May, 13 June, 20 June, 4 July, 29 August, 12 September, 10 October

UNISON and sister university unions are urging employers to improve their pay offer for 2017-18 when the two sides meet again later this month.

Negotiations will continuing between the five unions and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association at the meeting on 27 April.

The latest information on the Higher Education pay offer can be found here: pay offer

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Like all UK universities, at The University of Sheffield we have many members of staff from across the EU.

Since the referendum last year, there has been a great deal of uncertainty for EU citizens living and working in the UK. We don’t know what the outcomes of the Brexit negotiations will be, but UNISON will continue to campaign for the right of EU citizens to remain here.

In the meantime, we have created a booklet providing practical help to UNISON members whose right to live and work in the UK is dependent on their citizenship of another EU country.

Read our advice here (PDF).

If we want to try and improve the workplace and feedback members concerns we need stewards across all parts of the University.

 THE ROLE OF A STEWARD INVOLVES:

• supporting and advising members on workplace issues
• representing members
• be the first and main point of contact for members with the union
• recruit new members
• work with members to establish an organised workplace
• support and advise members on workplace issues
• act as a spokesperson for the members they represent and for
• the branch
• represent members with the employer, dependent on their
• experience and confidence
• represent members within the branch committee
• be answerable to the members they represent

The benefits of becoming a steward include:

To help you with this role you will receive training and support, and will be part of a group of Officers and Stewards who support members at The University of Sheffield.

• opportunity to improve your communication and negotiation skills
• helping fellow members
• getting to know members from across the University
• being more informed, and involved in your union

If you are interested in becoming a steward please contact unison@sheffield.ac.uk  

There are a number of opportunities for members to be more involved in the branch.

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The diaries will be available for members to collect at the Christmas Social on Thursday  1 December at the University Arms.

Making a will is important, whatever your age. If you don’t leave a will, the law decides how your possessions are passed on – and it might not be what you had in mind.

But making a will can be an expensive business, typically costing between £150 and £300 with a solicitor.

Luckily, as a UNISON member you and your family are entitled to make a will free of charge. Simply fill in the simple online form and download your will at the end.

Find out more and make your will today.

To celebrate the relaunch of UNISON’s pre-paid plus cashback card all existing cardholders and any member who registers by 19 December 2016, could win back the cost of Christmas (which has been calculated by experts to be £796) read more>>

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Research by the Papworth Trust has revealed how propaganda about the NHS swayed disabled voters who didn’t know how many of their protections were from the EU, a Unison conference was told.

The suggestion that the UK could spend the money it sends to Brussels on the NHS was a major reason that many disabled voters backed the call to leave the European Union in June, ‘gambling’ with protections that few realised the EU had guaranteed for them.

Find out more.