UCU: Equalities and the casualisation of work

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes
1. that insecure and casualised work is more likely to affect certain worker groups including migrants, black, disabled, LGBTQ+, women and young people.
2. the TUC Report which shows that black women are twice as likely as white men to be on Zero Hours Contracts.
Congress calls on the General Secretary and the NEC to work with the ACC to:
a. Undertake research to map how many casualised workers in HE, FE, ACE and Prison Education work are on casualised contracts
b. Consider how we can more accurately identify people working in HE, FE, ACE and Prison Education according to their protected characteristics
c. Identify and develop a strategy to organise to win for casualised workers in HE, FE, ACE and Prison Education.
d. Ensure that structural discrimination of all kinds is identified and eliminated in Higher Education; Further Education; Adult & Community Education, and Prison Education