UCU: The Hostile Environment and Migrant Workers Toolkit

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. Post-16 education institutions are an integral part of the xenophobic hostile environment, through monitoring of migrant workers and students and through PREVENT.
2. UCU offers legal advice to migrant members, but that branch reps often feel underequipped to provide assistance to migrant members.
Congress believes:
a. Education establishments are not outposts of the hostile environment, and education workers are not border guards.
b. Insecure immigration status intersects with casualisation to render migrant members more precarious.
Congress resolves:
i. To bring together ACC with MMSC, BMSC and other equalities committees to work with Unis Resist Border Controls (URBC) and other organisations to ascertain the needs of precarious migrant members through surveying members and drawing on URBC’s research.
ii. To use the information from this survey to develop a toolkit and training to support migrant members, and empower all members to resist the Hostile Environment in post-16 education.