UCU: Academic Boycott of the University of East Anglia (UEA)

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes that:
1. UEA management is pushing compulsory redundancies despite reaching
95% of their targeted savings through voluntary means.
2. Pursuing compulsory redundancies represents a serious breach of
industrial relations at UEA.
Conference resolves to:
a. Request UCU's Higher Education Committee (HEC) to declare a formal
academic boycott (greylisting) of UEA.
b. Call on UCU to implement this boycott when UEA issues notification of
compulsory redundancies.
The HEC is instructed to ask UCU members, trade unions, labour movement
organisations to support UEA UCU by:
i. Not applying for advertised jobs at UEA
ii. Not speaking at or organising academic conferences or events at UEA
iii. Not accepting visiting professor or researcher positions at UEA
iv. Not contributing to any academic journal edited at or produced by UEA
v. Resigning/not accepting any service roles at UEA i.e. external examining,
board membership, consultancy etc.