Motion
- Motion title
- Planning and supporting the Four Fights coupled with USS dispute
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- Special HE sector conference (Four Fights campaign)
- Meeting date
- 20 April 2022
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 7
- Motion text
SHESC notes that attacks on job security and casualisation and the proliferation of ‘fire and hire’ tactics Huge rises in the cost of living Despite these circumstances UCU branches in Cambridge, Manchester, RCA, Open University and elsewhere have won concessions or have forced negotiations on casualisation In many branches UCU membership among casualised members has dramatically increased, particularly among PhD students who teach as GTAs and in other types of insecure and underpaid roles.
SHESC believes that these local successes are the result of branch initiatives in conjunction with a raised profile for anti-casualisation through the Four Fights dispute
SHESC resolves:
1. To call effective UK-wide strike action during the current academic year under the Four Fights dispute combined with a marking boycott
2. Not to ‘decouple’ this action from the USS dispute
3. To provide UK-wide campaigning support for branches engaged in local anti-casualisation disputes during the UK-wide strike days.
- Proposing body
- University of Cambridge
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/H/04-20/014/7