UCU: Providing Forensic Accounting during ALL local S188 redundancy consultations

Motion

Motion title: Providing Forensic Accounting during ALL local S188 redundancy consultations

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. The very large numbers of universities declaring financial distress and
seeking to impose redundancies
2. The generic reasons used by universities to justify cost-cutting, which focus
on government funding rather than reckless decisions taken by management
teams, sometimes borrowing huge sums of money to construct new
university buildings.
Congress resolves that:
a. UCU should provide a forensic accountant service to every branch
experiencing an S188 consultation, that will produce a report on the
institution's financial position, and examine whether reckless management
decisions have contributed to the financial distress.
b. UCU may mitigate any costs involved in providing this service by putting
together a panel of UCU members with financial and accounting expertise
who will agree to volunteer this service to branches under direction of the
NEC.
c. UCU must call for all management teams who are deemed to have made
reckless decisions to be removed.