Motion
- Motion title
- Relationships with other unions
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 1 June 2022
- Status
- Remitted (not taken)
- Motion
- 27
- Motion text
Congress notes:
UCU ARPS members often work closely with members of other unions, e.g. Unison, and face many shared issues including:
1. increasing, unsafe workloads
2. casualisation
3. pay inequality
4. unequal opportunities for advancement
5. workplace bullying
6. pay deterioration
7. downgrading of roles
We are in the same fight for decency in our workplaces, but there are few formal structures beyond Joint Negotiating Committees, and varying degrees of communication, co-operation and co-ordination between unions. These risk contributing to division, where unity is needed.
Congress agrees to:
a. Encourage respectful collaboration between unions in Further and Higher Education at the national, the regional, devolved nation and local Branch levels
b. Establish an ARPS-led UK Working Group to investigate closer co-operation between unions
c. Encourage branches to establish analogous working groups to create spaces for unity and effectiveness for all our members.
- Proposing body
- Academic-related, professional services staff committee (ARPS)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/C/06-01/067/27