Motion
- Motion title
- Effective industrial action on Four Fights and USS
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- HE Conference
- Meeting date
- 2 June 2022
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE6
- Motion text
Conference notes:
1. Decisions taken at previous Conferences, and repeatedly expressed at Branch Delegate Meetings, to maintain the link between Four Fights and USS.
2. The successful action by UCU members at the University of Liverpool last year, which involved both periods of sustained strike action, and a marking and assessment boycott.
3. That brief periods of strike action (1-3 days) are ineffective.
Conference resolves:
a. To maintain the link between the two disputes until sufficient progress is made in one or both to justify separation.
b. To call escalating strike action and a marking and assessment boycott over both disputes.
c. To allow limited local variation, to minimise as far as possible strike action on unproductive days, while maintaining maximum effective action overall.
d. To respond to 100% pay deductions for ASOS by immediately calling further strikes.
e. To commence an aggregated national reballot over both disputes from as soon as possible in June to as late as possible in September,
i. with end dates timed to permit action in induction week,
ii. with both disputes in the same envelope where possible, and
iii. to liaise with branch officers immediately to identify induction week dates.
Where branches have strike mandates until October, the end date may be extended accordingly.
- Proposing body
- University of Liverpool
- Amended
- Yes
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/H/06-02/115/HE6