• Changes to the USS pension scheme
• Job Evaluation data on the website
• JNCHES Regional Seminars – ‘Working Successfully with Trade Unions on Difficult Issues’
• Research councils’ budgets slashed by £68m
• Call for more money
• University funding to rise by 6%
• Market of Higher Education
• Greening workplace course
• Allan Howard 1949-2007
• Amicus and TGWU Merger results

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• Amicus and TGWU Merger Ballot – Support the Merger
• New guidance on Job evaluation and salary regrading uplifts
• Job Evaluation data for workplace representatives
• JNCHES Regional Seminars – Working Successfully with Trade Unions on Difficult Issues’
• Valuing Public Services
• Save ESOL Campaign
• Greening workplace course
• Work Your Proper Hours Day! Friday 23rd February 2007
• Stress and Management failings in the Education sector
• Irish university investment increasing – employers and academics want higher pay
• Amicus Solidarity action Zimbabwe women arrested for salaries protest
• Economic Partnership Agreements: a Threat to workers TUC report
• European Trade Union Congress Public Services Petition

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The upcoming year
Appeals check list
Amicus Valuing Public Services campaign
Speak Up for Public Services – Parliamentary Lobby, 23 January 2007
European Trade Union Congress Public Services Petition
Leitch Report emphasises the need to invest more in higher education
Putting you into Uni – and you could study free!
HEFCE to invest £12 million in developing higher level skills packages for employers
New report shows record numbers of Irish higher education students.
Lastly but not least…

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• Job Evaluation progress report
• Leeds reopens job evaluation discussions
• Spying on students
• Strained relations within UCU come out in public
• “Private schools should set up universities”
• Irish Institutes of Technology push for university status
• HESDA training for technicians
• “Everything you wanted to know about grading appeals but are afraid to ask!”
• TUC Education Annual Report 2006

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• Amicus and DTI launch the world’s largest anti-bullying project
• Amicus at the TUC and Labour Party conferences
• New TUC president – University administrator
• NUS and the TUC report highlights the problems facing working students
• Student Recruitment – Freshers fairs upon us
• HEPI report predicts income growth in English Universities
• HESDA training for technicians
• “Everything you wanted to know about grading appeals but are afraid to ask!” – New Amicus Training course for senior reps
• TUC ‘One in Five’ campaign on vulnerable workers
• TUC launches new environmental guide
• New OECD report compares education systems in different countries

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Student Recruitment – Freshers fairs
Amicus link with Birmingham University Guild of Students (BUGS).
TUC and NUS sign a unity protocol
Sciences uptake continues to decline
“Everything you wanted to know about grading appeals but are afraid to ask!”
Trade unions and the environment – Short course for reps
Irish Congress of Trade Unions promotes HETAC Certificate Course
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Pay Deal accepted
Job Evaluation
HESDA training for technicians
“Everything you wanted to know about grading appeals but are afraid to ask!”
New Toolkit for Partnership Working available at Amicus HE website
Africa Matters Photo Exhibition available
Trade unions and the environment – Short course for reps
Plan for Irish Higher Education Institutions still not fully implemented
University Nursery Provision
Hot workers urged to adopt cool Japanese summer dress code
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Pay negotiations
Amicus National Sector Conference
Pensions White Paper
New Survey Shows Necessity to Close the Gender Pay Gap in Ireland
TUC give world cup sportswear the red card
Pay Line
Union Learning Representatives Online; Application form
Age Discrimination Regulations
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Higher Education Job Evaluation Survey 2006 report
Pensions Survey
Pay negotiations
TUC Greening Your Workplace Conference
Organising using new technology
CIHE conference calls for outsourcing of Higher Education workers
Pay Line
Unionlearn – Union Skills Boost
New Education Minister
Trade Union Freedom Bill
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2006 Pay Claim
Amicus Pay Line
2006 Budget
Do you have a Workplace Book club or Bookshelf at your Workplace?
Whistleblowing – Examples Needed
Sector Skills Councils: a toolkit for trade unionists
Hear and Now
Association of London Government (ALG) funds Bullying Initiative
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