Eight per cent pay rise would end strikes, say employment experts

8%, interesting, the 12th may be interesting too...

Pay rise should be uniform as those on higher salaries (ie top reseasrch professors), other than VCs and PVCS who do a very basic management role, have far greater skill and are meant to paid more than professional services staff and teaching fellows. The current practice of giving the university gardner a 8 percent rise and the professors a mere 3 percent rise is wrong as it effectively taxes the professor for spending years doing a PhD and building up the skills for what ought to be a higher paid role. The gap is being closed between a gardner's salary and that of a professor by giving the low skilled worker three times the pay rise each time. A flat 8 percent should apply to all staff on less than £120,000 per year. PVCS and VCS on half million ought to get a cut not a rise.