UCU: Women and the new deal for FE

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. Growing inequality since incorporation of FE colleges
2. Fragmented pay and conditions in FE, prison, and adult education
3. Encouraging progress in employment conditions bargaining in devolved
nations
Conference believes:
a. New, binding, national conditions of service are essential for all oppressed
groups: our sector needs a new ‘silver book’
b. We need a clear yardstick of national, enforceable pay and conditions,
including parity of esteem regarding pay, equality and working conditions.
Conference agrees:
i. UCU must ensure that all FE, Adult Education, and Prison Education
bargaining agendas feature strong, intersectional equality demands
ii. UCU Equality Committee will include national bargaining on the agenda at
every meeting and will provide regular advice and guidance to negotiators
and relevant committees
iii. UCU will make clear, consistent demands for the government to acknowledge
and address the equality deficit in the current complex, uneven conditions of
service across our sectors