UCU: Sheffield Needs a Payrise: A model for organising casualised workers

Motion

Motion title: Sheffield Needs a Payrise: A model for organising casualised workers

Motion text: Congress notes:

1. The Sheffield Needs a Payrise Campaign, based on a partnership between Sheffield Trades Council and BFAWU, has been incredibly successful in recruiting, organising and winning recognition in unorganised workplaces where zero-hours employment is the norm.
2. The campaign has been successful because of its use of Worker Patrols and surveys of workers, and because it has raised funds to hire a full-time organiser, employed jointly by Sheffield Trades Council and BFAWU and supported by donations from local and national trade unions.
3. Hallam UCU and Sheffield UCU have made significant contributions to this campaign.
4. Leeds Trades Council has initiated a similar campaign based on this model.
Congress resolves:
a. To promote this model to UCU branches and encourage them to consider how we can work with trades councils and other unions to initiate similar campaigns in other towns, cities and regions.
b. To donate £1000 to the campaign.