UCU: Resisting job cuts

Motion

Motion text: SHESC notes:
1. 50+ employers are pursuing redundancies
2. UCU has failed to develop a national strategy for resistance to redundancies
3. Forthcoming general election
SHESC believes:
a. Moving to redundancies is a choice for many of these employers
b. The funding crisis arises from the marketisation of education and
mismanagement of university finances in competition within this market
c. Leadership responsible for institutional financial distress should be
accountable
d. Combining industrial action with political action increases our leverage in
stopping these redundancies.
SHESC resolves to:
i. Ask employers for transparency and accountability of finances leading to
proposed redundancies
ii. Organise a series of national demonstrations ahead of the general election,
starting in summer 2024
iii. Focus political work on the constituencies where redundancies are identified
iv. Require parliamentary candidates to endorse a UCU manifesto for jobs and an
end to marketisation