Motion
- Motion title
- Linking equality and casualisation – a unified industrial strategy
- Session
- 2024-2025
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 26 May 2025
- Status
- Not taken - remitted to NEC
- Motion
- 80
- Motion text
Congress believes that equalities and the casualisation of work are integrally
linked.
Congress notes:
1. That UCU needs to take a more strategic approach through making the fight
against casualisation central to all equalities work, and vice versa.
2. Casualisation disproportionately affects women, migrants, Black, disabled
staff, and those with caring responsibilities.
3. UCU’s data repeatedly show that precarious contracts and equality are
structurally linked yet the bargaining agendas are often separate.
Congress calls on the General Secretary and the NEC to work with the ACC to:
a. Undertake research to identify how many workers in HE, FE, ACE and Prison
Education work on casualised contracts and for how long
b. Consider how we can more accurately identify people working on casualised
contracts in HE, FE, ACE and Prison Education who are intersectionally
minoritised / marginalised staff
c. Develop a strategy to organise to win for casualised workers in HE, FE, ACE
and prison education.
- Proposing body
- City of Bristol College, Anti-Casualisation Committee (ACC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2025/C/05-26/075/80