UCT staff say the 3% increase being offered by the university is an insult.
Staff of the University of Cape Town on Friday said they were preparing to down tools to protest against their latest salary increases.“Academic staff are committed to go on strike over what they feel is an insulting and derisory pay increase of 3% offered for the 2023 year. Consumer price inflation in 2022, according to Stats SA this week, was 6.9%.
The 3% increase was offered in December. Efforts to negotiate with the university for more were reportedly unsuccessful. “We find it hard to accept that UCT, as one of the premier universities in South Africa, is unable to match the increases offered by other higher education institutions,” said the leader of the union salary bargaining team, Kelley Moult.
“The insult is further compounded by the university having budgeted for an R183m increase in student financial aid . Matching the pay increases offered by other universities would cost about R90m,” Moult added. “This is not greed on the part of academic staff at UCT. We have emerged from a harrowing and stressful time of moving to online teaching and learning during Covid-19, and this offer would see our members 4% worse off in real terms.”Prof Andrew Lilley, president of the AU, said: “The time has come for academic staff to make it clear in no uncertain terms that they reject the offer made by the university management.
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