UCU: Linking casualised redundancies to the fightback in HE

Motion

Motion text: HEC notes:
1. The HE redundancy crisis often means casualised staff to be hit first: losing
hours, contracts not renewed: work redistributed without formal redundancy
procedures or compensation. This has a high impact on equality strands. UCU
lacks centralised data on this. Employers use bogus arguments to load hours
onto overworked FTE staff.
2. Casualised job losses are key in coordinated UK-wide industrial action.
Dundee shows branches fighting early on for casualised workers strengthens
members' ability to fight for permanent staff jobs.
HESC resolves:
a. To urgently survey all branches on: loss of casualised teaching hours; nonrenewal of contracts; changes to local agreements on casualised work.
b. Immediate data on the impact of job losses on equality groups to strengthen
bargaining and industrial action.
To produce
i. A UK-wide report for HEC and ACC (then branches) exposing the impact of
redundancies on casualised staff.
ii. A bargaining and action guide for branches to defend casualised workers