UCU: On the snap General Election

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. the general election on 4 July
2. the landslide projected for Keir Starmer's Labour Party
3. but Starmer has launched a purge of left candidates and MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, women of colour Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen (LSE UCU member), each with a long connection with UCU and trade union movement
4. the BMA Junior Doctors in England have called a strike for 27 – 2 July.
Congress believes the end of Conservative rule should begin the righting of wrongs of fourteen wasted years:
Congress resolves to
a. send messages of solidarity to Jeremy, Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen
b. call on branches to convene emergency branch meetings to discuss how the branch should lobby candidates over union objectives, including course closures and redundancies, Reclaim HE and the FE manifesto
c. send messages of support to the BMA, and encourage branches to twin with BMA branches, raise support, invite speakers, etc.

Proposing body: NCG Lewisham College; City, University of London; CCCG Westminster Kingsway College; University of Bedfordshire; University College London; University of Derby; Morely College; Chesterfield College; Sunderland University; Westminster University; LJMU; Imp