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Further education unions' pay claim 2025/26

7 April 2025

UCU has reached agreement with the other further education trade unions (GMB, NEU, Unite and Unison) on this the Joint FE trade unions' pay claim (2025/26) and it has been submitted to the Association of Colleges (AoC).

You can click here to read the full claim here.

The claim is built on the core demands in the New Deal for FE campaign:

  • FE pay parity with schoolteachers' pay
  • national workload agreements
  • a new binding national bargaining framework.

Dates for the pay talks under the National Joint Forum (NJF) are currently being canvassed with the AoC so please look out for updates as the talks progress.

Last updated: 7 April 2025