UCU: Redundancies and their impact on different equality groups

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes
1. The increasing number of branches facing redundancies in post-16
education
2. Government increase in funding for FE insufficient and no increase for HE
3. Migrant members made redundant typically lose their visa sponsorship as
this is employer specific and face removal from the UK
Congress believes
a. Members belonging to equality groups are impacted more severely when
facing redundancies, whether the redundancies are “voluntary” or
compulsory
b. Workload implications for remaining staff may fall more on members
belonging to equality groups
Congress resolves
i. For UCU to carry out an anonymous survey in branches affected by any
redundancies to gather information on members’ protected characteristics to
identify patterns of members most impacted by redundancies
ii. For additional legal support on immigration to be made available to support
migrant members facing redundancies
iii. For UCU to focus political work on the intersecting impact redundancies have
on equality groups