UCU: Gender and ethnicity pay gap

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. According to the HESA data, 2017/2018, Black staff suffer the most pay gap (20.3%) and (14%) for black academics, compared to their white colleagues.
2. Although the gender pay gap is 15%, the gender pay gap of black women remains unknown.
3. Female black academics fare even worse, with an ethnicity pay gap on top of the gender pay gap.
4. Bridging the ethnic pay gap will assist in reducing the pay inequalities between black and white men and women.
5. That according to TUC research the disability pay gap is 20% and that any ethnicity pay gap reporting also needs to recognise any further detrimental impact faced by black disabled workers.
6. The success in engaging and involving members of the Four Fights campaign.
Congress resolves to collaborate with parliament, political parties and other bodies to promote the issue with government and commissions a review into gender and ethnicity pay gap as evidence for progression and campaign for:
a. A mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting for all further, higher and adult education institutions
b. A different framework for reporting the ethnic pay gap
c. Reporting for gender ethnicity pay gap for black women
d. To encourage members to continue to resist the race pay gap through industrial action and the Four Fights dispute.