Motion
- Motion title
- Stop the job cuts at Brighton University
- Session
- 2022-2023
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2023
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- L2
- Motion text
Congress condemns the plan to axe over 100 jobs at Brighton University.
Congress believes:
• the targeted staff are not genuinely redundant: the aim is to slash the wage bill by shedding higher earning staff
• while the backdrop is marketisation and the tuition fee funding regime, staff are now being asked to pay with their jobs for mismanagement of the institution including overspending on estates
• this is an attack on UCU by threatening to dismiss members of the branch leadership, including an NEC member, in order to clear the way for new terms and conditions and teaching only contracts.
Congress resolves:
1. to declare Brighton a local dispute of national significance and to coordinate solidarity from across the union
2. to pledge full support to the local branch in its fight to resist this attack.
- Proposing body
- University of Brighton
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2023/C/05-27/049/L2