UCU: Overcome grotesque pay injustice

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. Most hourly-paid teaching in HE is grievously underpaid compared with
similar work by permanent academic employees. The principle (JNCHES
2004) that a comprehensive “scheduled teaching hour” rate, acknowledging
“all work done in connection with teaching” be evaluated in relation to
lecturer payscales to determine “the proper pay grade”, is disregarded.
2. Evaluation exercises in London Metropolitan University, informed by surveys
and accepted workload allocation tariffs, show that even institutions that
explicitly recognise, for example, 2.5 hours of work per teaching hour,
significantly underestimate the work required and, hence, underpay.
Congress resolves to:
a. Develop a generally applicable framework, informed by current workload
allocation models, to evaluate hourly-paid teaching.
b. Undertake a nationwide survey, rigorously to evaluate hourly-paid teaching
in terms of time and pay, in relation to work done by permanent
employees.
c. Publish and use the results of this exercise to reform pay practices and
achieve equal payment for similar work.