UCU: Strengthening bargaining and negotiations through collectively developing our decarbonisation campaign

Motion

Motion title: Strengthening bargaining and negotiations through collectively developing our decarbonisation campaign

Motion text: Congress believes
1. UCU has pioneered the intensification and mainstreaming of action against the Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE), in tertiary education and the labour movement.
2. Commitments to strengthen sectoral bargaining and pursue a Green New Deal through a national joint claim (Congress 2022, Motion 60) would benefit from greater grassroots knowledge.
Congress resolves
a. To issue guidance on members collectively influencing Professional Bodies and Learned Societies to revise ethics, events and funding processes.
b. To grant the Climate and Ecological Emergency Committee status under Rule 25; to submit Motions and send Delegates to Conferences and Congress.
c. To gather information through Branch Delegate Meetings on the content of, and member support for, particular policies, including:
i. Requirements for professional development or job retraining
ii. Restrictions on non-fossil fuel flights, paid time for use of slower low-carbon transport
iii. Reasonable adjustments appropriate to considerations including (but not limited too) protected characteristics, employment type, or career stage.