UCU: Planning now for action next academic year

Motion

Motion text: SHESC notes that recent industrial action has been planned reactively, undermined by failures to:

1. ballot for action during summer 2021
2. pre-plan effectively timed escalation.
SHESC believes that

a. ineffective action risks demoralisation, undermining the union
b. effective action must be pre-planned democratically in consultation with elected branch delegates and vigorously implemented by the union centrally.
SHESC resolves that:

A. the general secretary now coordinate preparation of an industrial action plan for the academic year 2022-23, including:
i. aggregated ballots to maintain mandates for action throughout
ii. marking, admissions and worktime-survey boycotts
iii. immediate, united UK-wide responses to punitive ASOS deductions
iv. contingencies to foreseeable events
v. transparent negotiations and decision
B. the plan should consider:
– the UK employer negotiations calendar
– the teaching terms of institutions
– the HEC modify and activate the plan if the disputes are unresolved on 1/7/2022.