UCU: Defend HE: Action on Jobs and Pay

Motion

Motion text: Conference deplores:
1. The threatened (compulsory) redundancies at an increasing number of
universities.
2. The reduction in real-term funding and increasing dependence on student
fees.
3. The continuing prevalence of casualisation, including zero-hour contracts.
4. The massive drop in pay in real terms.
Conference calls on HEC and negotiators to:
a. Organise a massive campaign with active involvement of members and
branches for full funding of HE.
b. Organise a media and social media campaign, lobby for parliament and
members writing to MPs on full funding.
c. Actively support all branches in dispute and taking industrial action, including
organising twinning with other branches, publicising and encouraging support
for pickets, rallies etc., access to fighting fund and support in setting up
hardship funds.
d. Publicise the links between strong industrial action on pay and action to
support jobs and encourage action against casualisation.