MRC, NIBSC and Imanet staff

UCU continues represents staff employed by the Medical Research Council, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, and GE Healthcare (Imanet).

Members working for these employers are given prominence in UCU's structure through a specialist committee.

Pay negotiating

2009-10 pay round

Final offer:

• Staff performing satisfactorily in bands 7, 6 and 5 to receive a £450 consolidated pay award.
• Staff performing satisfactorily in band 4 to receive a £400 consolidated pay award
• Staff performing satisfactorily in bands 3 and 2 to receive a £300 consolidated pay award.
• For the sake of clarity, this consolidated award will apply to all staff up to and including staff at or above the band maxima in bands 7-2.
• Normal progression payments are to be suspended for 2009, employees to remain on their current pay point.
• Allowances will be increased by 1.5%. The consolidated or non-consolidated status of all allowances to remain unchanged.
• ASR awards will be made from a budget of 0.7% subject to the rules of the ASR scheme.

In the UCU members pay ballot an unprecedented 50% of members voted to accept the offer, and 50% voting to reject. This is a significant result and a reflection of UCU member's dissatisfaction with the offer made by the MRC. The other MRC trade unions voted to accept the offer. In this context the UCU committee took the view that in the interest of solidarity, we would support the position of our sister unions within the MRC on the condition that our members dissatisfaction was clearly expressed back to the MRC as part of the trade unions response to pay this year.

•  MRC 2009 pay ballot: result (.rtf) [2.0Mb]
•  MRC final pay award 2009 (.doc) [212kb]

Newsletters

 TUS newsbrief - MRC Compensation Scheme, May 10 (.pdf) [120kb]

 TUS newsbrief - Redundancy and Early Retirement, Apr 10 (.pdf) [121kb]

 TUS newsbrief - Pay 2009-10 and TUS posts, Dec 09 (.pdf) [286kb]

Annual meeting

The next annual meeting for MRC staff will be held on Friday 4 March 2011. Please go to the annual meeting page for further information

MRC committee 2010-11

• Kelvin Cain, chair, MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester
• Oliver de Peyer, vice-chair, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill
• Roger Buxton, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill
• Marion MacFarlane, MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester
• Marion Henderson, MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow
• Terry Spinks, Hammersmith Imanet, Hammersmith
• Barry Walker, NIBSC, South Mimms
• Christina McGuire, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill (co-opted)

In addition, the following officers and members of the union's national executive council can attend:

• Alastair Hunter, president
• Terry Hoad, NEC, president-elect
• Philip Burgess, NEC
• Dave Guppy, NEC,
• Sally Hunt, general secretary

Committee secretary: Paul Bridge, national official: pbridge@ucu.org.uk