UCU: Deficit budgets

Motion

Motion text: Notes:
1. CEOs and senior management teams use college finances entering a deficit
as an excuse to not award pay increases or cut provision.
2. The pursuit of non-deficit budgets as the main driver behind ‘balanced’
college budgets.
3. The questioning of the validity, within some FE leadership circles, of pursuing
a non-deficit budget.
Believes:
a. Cuts in staff pay and provision are the way management attempt to maintain
non-deficit budgets.
b. Those within the sector that argue setting non-deficit budgets make it harder
to convince government that the sector needs more funds, are correct.
c. Growth and not cuts to pursue non-deficit budgets is the way to secure the
sectors future.
Resolves:
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FEC to demand that colleges pursue a growth strategy rather than a non-deficit
budget through cutting wages and provision.