Motion
- Motion title
- UCU to move from Equality to Equity
- Session
- 2022-2023
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2023
- Status
- Remitted
- Motion
- 50
- Motion text
Congress notes that Equality means an individual or group is given the same resources or opportunities, whereas Equity recognises that each person has different circumstances and allocates the resources and opportunities needed to reach fairer outcomes.
Congress believes that not everyone has the same starting point and as a trade union and movement we should be striving for Equity rather than Equality.
Congress resolves to move UCU towards the principles of Equity rather than Equality, to implement the title of Equity Officers instead of Equality Officers and to bring a motion to the TUC to ask the UK trade union movement to do the same.
- Proposing body
- Loughborough University
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Equality committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2023/C/05-27/027/50