UCU: Local settlements in FE disputes

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. That until national binding pay bargaining is achieved, FE college branches
negotiate with their employer, not with the government.
2. That motion 7 at SFESC April 2023 called for FE branches to have the right
to negotiate pay and conditions with their employers.
Conference believes:
a. That members have the right to accept or reject any offer from their
employer that their branch committee places before them.
b. That solidarity in a national dispute must be built and cannot be imposed.
Conference resolves:
i. That at any time, branch committees may present any offer from their
employer to branch members.
ii. That decisions over whether to accept such an offer may be made at a
quorate branch meeting or by a simple majority vote in an eballot of branch
members