Motion
- Motion title
- USS Pension Scheme
- Session
- 2010-2011
- Meeting link
- Special HE conference (pay, jobs and pensions)
- Meeting date
- 25 November 2010
- Status
- remitted
- Motion
- 9
- Motion text
Whilst Conference fully recognises the current injustices in respect of pay, the union’s strategic priorities in the HE sector must focus currently on pensions, cuts and tuition fees.
Regarding pensions, the employers’ vicious attacks on USS have provoked the strongest opposition and criticism of employers by our union members in years. The strength of feeling over this issue has the potential to unite all sections of the union and lays the basis for a much more confrontational response to the employers than UCU has mobilised to date.
With this in mind, Conference instructs the union: (i) to explore all possibilities to secure an injunction to prevent the USS Trustee Board meeting on 20th January 2011; (ii) to organise an industrial action (including strikes) ballot forthwith in defence of USS, with the intention that action be taken prior to the pending USS Trustee Board meeting whenever that occurs.
- Proposing body
- University of Manchester
- Amended
- no
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2010/H/11-25/017/9