Motion
- Motion title
- Black Lives Matter: Justice for Sheku Bayoh
- Session
- 2022-2023
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2023
- Status
- Remitted
- Motion
- 83
- Motion text
UCU Congress notes:
1. The death in police custody of Sheku Bayoh in Kirkcaldy on 3 May 2015 in the presence of nine police officers. At least five police offices were directly involved in restraining him, CS spray and pepper spray were used, he was handcuffed, and he suffered from lacerations, bruising and a broken rib.
2. Sheku’s family’s fight for justice and the longstanding support from UCU Scotland and Scotland’s trade union movement for the Justice for Sheku Bayoh Campaign (https://stuc.org.uk/campaigns-and-events/campaigns/justice-for-sheku-bayoh).
3. The establishment in 2022 of the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry in Edinburgh, and the next phase of the Inquiry starting on 9th May 2023.
UCU Congress decides to:
a. Express our union’s support for Sheku Bayoh’s family, and publicise the Campaign and Inquiry to members and branches (https://www.shekubayohinquiry.scot/)
b. Encourage UCU branches to donate to the Justice for Sheku Bayoh campaign via STUC (Scottish Trade Union Congress): www.bayoh.support)
- Proposing body
- National executive committee (NEC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2023/C/05-27/078/83