UCU: Precariousness post pandemic

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. The pandemic has encouraged different forms of working, notably home based and online working increasing workloads for women due to caring responsibilities and home-schooling.
2. The pandemic has disrupted researchers’ workload – creating delays and difficulties with research, grant seeking, teaching, writing, publishing
and reviewing
3. The Augar report proposes to extend the repayment of student debt to be extended to 40 years, disadvantaging teachers, nurses and other low earners (predominantly women)
4. Arts and Care work degrees and careers chosen by many women are sacrificed in favour of stem and business jobs
Conference calls on HEC:
a. to make women workers’ needs, rights, and interests central to union responses and policies regarding new working arrangements
b. to resist any increases in job insecurity and discrimination against casualised and/or zero hours workers, often women
c. to take account of how gender disadvantage interacts with race, disability, sexuality and migrant status creating multiple discriminations.