UCU has today said vice-chancellors threatening to dock staff pay for taking part in the marking and assessment boycott should instead donate part of their own salary for failing to bring forward an improved offer to end the dispute
The union said university leaders are failing in their duty to protect students by not pushing their employer body, the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), to get back to negotiations with a better offer and bring an end to the marking and assessment boycott.
UCU has called on university vice-chancellors to donate half their pay - a total of £80k per day across the sector - to student hardship funds for every day they continue to threaten pay deductions and UCEA fails to bring forward an improved offer.
The 145 vice-chancellors involved in the marking boycott earn a combined salary of over £14m, or around £160k per day1. Yet they are putting student graduations at risk by refusing to call on their employer body to negotiate with UCU, and squandering good will amongst staff by threatening punitive pay deductions.
