Conference calls for national pay bargaining in FE

Low pay in Further Education (FE) was high on the agenda at UNISON’s local government conference, with delegates hearing that pay in the sector had fallen by around 35% since 2010, thanks to a lack of centralised pay bargaining.
This has led to a recruitment crisis, with three quarters of England’s 228 colleges reporting difficulties in filling vacancies.
But delegates heard about the recent success of the Wirral branch of UNISON in securing a commitment from Wirral Metropolitan Coll