Motion
- Motion title
- Composite: Collectivise the fight against cuts in HE
- Session
- 2024-2025
- Meeting link
- HE Conference
- Meeting date
- 25 May 2025
- Status
- Carried (without points ii, iii, iv as originally ordered)
- Motion
- HE5
- Motion text
Conference notes:
1. The broken funding model and the HE employers’ offensive on jobs
2. Branches like Brunel, Dundee and Newcastle leading the coordinated fight
against redundancies
3. The difficulties in fighting cuts one branch at a time
Conference believes:
a. We are stronger when we stand together
b. A carefully coordinated branch-by-branch dispute over guaranteed job
security can collectivise the fight to defend jobs in HE
Conference resolves:
i. To ask every HEI to guarantee they will make no voluntary or compulsory
redundancies for the next 2 academic years
ii. To organise mass demonstrations (variable by devolved nation) during
industrial action
iii. To share data on cuts and host an online organising meeting for all branches
each week
- Proposing body
- University of Liverpool, Dundee University, Newcastle University
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2025/H/05-25/119/HE5