UCU: Protect casualised staff amid budget cuts and redundancies

Motion

Motion text: HESC notes that:
1. Universities have announced voluntary and compulsory redundancy
schemes, alongside budget cuts.
2. Invisible or hidden redundancies of staff on fixed-term, open-ended with
review dates and hourly contracts are already happening, with contracts not
renewed or hours reduced, dramatically increasing the precarity of casualised
staff and increasing the workload of those who remain.
HESC believes that:
a. Threats of redundancies affect all staff independent of their contract type.
b. Solidarity means protecting all workers from redundancies.
HESC resolves to:
i. Ensure that any actions opposing voluntary or compulsory redundancies does
not disproportionately affect casualised staff who could be used as “buffers”
to shield others from redundancy.
ii. Ensure that any campaigns against redundancies must also protect and
defend the roles of casualised staff.