Talks on 3 per cent pay rise offer conclude without agreement

Pathetic offer the biggest real wage cut in history 3% pay rise with 10% inflation is a real wage cut of around 7%. Universities need to slash the excess admin and bureuacracy that gobbles up far too much money. Yes we need admin and bureaucrats but not that many, the seniot bureacrats breed like rabbits the number of vice presidents, deputy VCs and associate deans just keeps increasing and increasing while the academics that do all the research and teaching just get more and more work for less and less pay. Excess bureaucracy is a cancer killing off K universities. The Unions need to stop pandering to all these excess administrators as that is the only way academics will get a decent pay packet.

There is a whole layer of middle management and upper management at universities who are earning excessive rents. As the previous comment points out this dead weight of middle/upper management will take UK universities with it. These so called senior leadership teama are responsible for much of the bad governance in some places.

"Some employers have decided to offer additional bonuses to staff ". We all know which staff are going to get those bonuses. Doubt that many academics will qualify.

A pitiful offer as expected. Given how little impact the previous strike action has had I don't believe the threat of more carries any significant threat. The HE sector is also paying much less than market rate for skilled PS jobs leading to an exodus of the most skilled people and recruitment of inexperienced staff bringing further problems. As stated above, far too much money is being spent on middle managers who are just being brought in to further insulate the senior leadership teams from any accountability.

When is a good time to ask for a pay raise? - when inflation is high, it is "not the right time". When inflation is low, it is just "plain greed" and "is not warranted". So people are just expected to live with rubbish pay?