UCU: After the spending review prepare national action

Motion

Motion text: Notes:
1. The April 2025 CSR will set out FE funding for the next three years.
2. Cuts to adult education budgets.
3. The NJF is in talks on a new national binding bargaining framework.
4. FE was not awarded the 5.5% teachers received.
5. The £300m allocated to the sector was not ringfenced for pay.
6. The government pay offer for schools next year is 2.8% unfunded.
7. The NEU national indicative ballot.
8. UCU submitted a new claim to the employers for 25/26.
Believes:
a. To win binding national bargaining and pay parity we need to escalate our
campaign with England-wide action.
b. Strike action is more effective prior to the census.
Resolves:
i. Prepare an England- wide IA ballot for FE England on the New Deal claim for
strike action in September 2025.