UCU: A Charter for Jobs

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. one million 16-24-year-olds are not in work, education or training
2. overall unemployment stands at 5%: for 16-24-year-olds it is 16%
3. 1 in 8 young people are not in work, education or training.
Congress believes:
a. youth unemployment is a political choice, not a cast-iron economic law
b. government failure to create well-paid and meaningful work is at the root of the problem, not the introduction of a minimum wage or alleged failings of teachers or lecturers delivering 'irrelevant' training or education
c. the Right to Work campaign and the Peoples March for Jobs are examples of campaigns that played an important role in highlighting youth unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s.
Congress resolves UCU will:
i. create a Charter for Jobs
ii. approach other unions to discuss launching a campaign around youth unemployment and education for all
iii. organise a hybrid conference to launch the charter.