UCU: Defending USS

Motion

Motion text: Conference condemns

the imposition of draconian, vicious and unacceptable changes driven through the USS JNC on the casting vote
the threat of personal litigation against individual negotiators to force through a rubber stamp of the changes.
Conference is appalled that employers are still planning on driving through reductions in the tax bills of the sector's fat cats in July.

Conference commends the USS negotiators for standing up to outrageous threats and seeking to negotiate a settlement which would protect the future of USS and developing an acceptable benefit package for potential, future members, including the formulation of constructive counter proposals.

Conference instructs HEC to re-ballot the membership and develop a major programme of disruptive industrial action targeting a wide range of areas including admissions, assessments and examinations for the next academic year and other disruptive practices with as much coordination as possible with other public sector unions.