UCU: The path to victory begins with local branches

Motion

Motion text: SFESC notes:
1. The willingness of members to fight on pay, workloads, and national
bargaining.
2. The success of the Respect FE strategy coordinating branches in last year’s
dispute.
3. The new FEC strategy of ‘levelling up the sector’ and move to a national
aggregate ballot.
4. The lack of detail contained in, debate on and branch involvement in that
strategy.
SFESC believes:
a. Branches are essential to the proper functioning of UCU democracy and
decision-making.
b. Strategy should be debated and democratically agreed by branches.
c. The move to an aggregated ballot is too soon.
d. There is no clear path to victory because it is unclear who we are in dispute
with.
SFESC resolves:
i. To allow for branch exclusions from any national action, dependent on local
context.
ii. To retain local power to build branch capacity, density, and organising power
whilst a long-term strategy is constructed and employed so that we can
achieve our aims.