UCU: Well-being of black workers in higher education

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. The increasing pressure of workload on black academics due to Covid19 and hybrid working.
2. Structural racism and barriers to black staff well-being in HE
3. Experiencing racism on a continual daily basis can compromise black staff's mental faculties.
4. Failure to implement appropriate workload model and resources for hybrid working
5. Failure to implement appropriate EDI institutional policies subjecting thus, black academics to unnecessary discriminations
Conference resolves:
a. To support the implementation of an appropriate workload model with resources for hybrid working in HE.
b. Commission research to audit how institutional and structural racism within UK higher education systems shape the mental health and well-being experiences and outcomes of Black staff.
c. Develop and support interventions to resolve the violence of the racialised experiences of black academics.
d. Support students and UCU branches taking action to protect themselves and their communities on workload and racism.