Common Staff Policies

In order to assuredly deal with these negotiations, public universities must have a common understanding of the objectives in each area. A strategy for action must be defined, shared and implemented in a coordinated manner during this process. Consequently, the support and coordination of labour relations made by the ACUP aims to facilitate the creation of a common action strategy for the public part and the coordination of its implementation. It also aims to have a greater initiative capacity in joint proposals to foster a shared framework of staff policies in the Catalan public university system.

The goal of coordinating the area of labour relations, therefore, is to define an authentic labour environment for all the Catalan public universities. It should facilitate and promote mobility between universities, which sharing the same model for development and professional careers of the different groups, while establishing common labour standards. The negotiation of this framework, assuming a global university system, will also improve efficiency in the internal management of each university and focus its activities on the realisation of the agreements and the general criteria established as a system.

To address this process in a measured and consistent manner, the ACUP has undertaken the coordination of technical teams from the universities with the aim of integrating the knowledge and specific situations of each institution. Based on cooperative work, the ACUP makes systematised information available, develops action scenarios and assesses their economic impact, in order to facilitate joint decision making on political and strategic levels in each area. These areas include university management, Administrative and Service Staff policies and the definition of the economic framework for the whole labour negotiation process, the vice-presidents responsible for Research and Development Staff policy, for Research and Development Staff policies, and, ultimately, the ACUP Assembly, comprised of the rectors and presidents of the Social Councils of the universities.