Motion
- Motion title
- Call for a return to aggregated strike ballots
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- HE Conference
- Meeting date
- 2 June 2022
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE8
- Motion text
UCU’s current strategy of running disaggregated ballots in national disputes has not recently been successful. In the 2021 USS ballot only 35 branches initially met the threshold for action on an overall turnout of 53%. In the Four Fights ballot, 54 managed this on an overall turnout of 51%. While aggregated ballots would have enabled industrial action across the sector, disaggregated ballots have enabled university leaders to characterise disputes as enjoying only the support of a minority. This weakens our negotiating hand, risks damaging solidarity across the sector, and weakens the public impact and media profile of the action.
Conference
1. instructs HEC in future to make aggregated ballots the default position in future sector-wide industrial disputes
2. resolves to provide support to branches with low turnouts to enable them to increase these
- Proposing body
- University of Southampton
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/H/06-02/117/HE8