UCU: Renewed importance of national action

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. One of the first actions of the new government was to make substantial pay
offers to junior doctors, train drivers and school teachers, workers who had
taken national action. Labour is afraid of significant industrial action.
2. The NEU strikes by non-academised sixth forms have led to a promise of no
more two-tier pay, but FE is now almost ten thousand pounds a year
behind!
3. By the time this motion is heard, the NEU will have balloted for national
action in response to a below-inflation pay offer for next year.
4. Although we do not have national bargaining, it is funding decisions at
government level which determine FE pay, for example the 6.5% deal in
2023.
Conference resolves:
Given the above, it is now imperative that UCU calls a national ballot for strike
action on pay and workload in FE.