UCU: Reclaiming HE as a common good needs agile strategy

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. Destructive marketisation is imperiling jobs and degrading conditions of
higher education workers
2. Resolution requires creative and impactful action on many fronts, using
multiple tactics , from both academic and academic-related, professional
services staff recognising the different types and timings across the year of
work undertaken.
3. Our historic USS victory highlights the importance of research and media
work, as well as industrial action
4. Current membership density means UCU must build broad coalitions to
achieve wins for members
Resolves:
a. To continue media campaigns around HE as a common good, including
showing how the academic vandalism of HE ‘leaders’ is impacting local
communities
b. To propose models for addressing funding crises, including controlled student
distribution
c. To develop local, regional and UK-wide campaigns to increase membership
density and member engagement
d. To support branches in dispute to develop plans for impactful forms of local
industrial action, not only strikes, and by organising support from across
the sector
e. To enter into partnership agreements with other HE unions as soon as
possible.