Congress motions

Motion

Motion title

Opposition to education spending cuts

Session

2010-2011

Meeting link

Annual Congress

Meeting date

29 May 2011

Status

Passed

Motion

2

Motion text

Congress condemns the public sector spending cuts imposed by the Con-Dem Coalition. Congress believes these cuts are unnecessary and are an ideologically driven attempt to make the public sector pay for a financial crisis caused by an irresponsible and greedy banking sector. These cuts will inevitably lead to widespread redundancies and consequent loss of provision across the higher and further education sector, and attempts by management to increase workloads and contact hours to the detriment of quality of education provision and the health and safety of staff.
Congress resolves to urge branches/LAs to immediately ballot for strike action if their institutions threaten any compulsory redundancies of our members.
Congress further resolves to give full backing and support to any branch/LA taking action to oppose redundancies, increases in workloads and contact hours, and cuts in educational provision. Where possible, such action will be coordinated with other public sector unions.
In recognition of the rapidly growing threat to tens of thousands of jobs in FHE institutions Congress instructs the NEC and its industrial committees to organise a high profile national campaign to defend jobs which should include joint meetings with other unions and students as well as further co-ordinated national strike action in the new academic year supported by solidarity protests and rallies.
In recognition of the rapidly growing threat to tens of thousands of jobs and consequent soaring workloads in FHE institutions Congress instructs the NEC to organise a national campaign against workload increases which will include national and regional briefing meetings on how branches can work to contract and defend jobs through opposing increases in workload.

Proposing body

Coleg Morgannwg

Amended

Yes

Allocated to

Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)

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