UCU: Ending the intersectional pay gap

Motion

Motion text: HESC notes:
1. Black, disabled, migrant, and LGBTQ+ women suffer multiple pay inequalities
while employers obscure the facts by refusing to publish meaningful data.
2. Casualisation exacerbates pay inequality. Without penalties, employers
ignore multiple oppressions and pay discrimination. Intersectional analysis
deepen structural inequalities. Pay gap reporting is often a tick-box exercise
without real accountability.
3. Fighting for intersectional pay justice is core to our industrial action and must
be embedded in bargaining, recruitment, and campaigning.
HESC resolves:
a. Demand all institutions publish transparent intersectional pay audits and
time-bound action plans to close all pay gaps.
b. Embed intersectional pay gap demands into future pay claims.
c. A high-profile national campaign exposing institutions that refuse to close pay
gaps.
d. Develop bargaining guidance to help branches using pay data in local
negotiations.
e. Campaign for financial penalties for institutions that fail to close pay gaps.