UCU: Rebuilding prison education branches after PES

Motion

Motion text: Conference notes:
1. the disastrous PES contract with the subsequent redundancies and TUPE transfers of UCU prison education members
2. the devastating effect on branches and the loss of members and reps
3. the need to undertake a major rebuilding exercise so that members in Prison Education retain their representation and their industrial power
4. the need for resourced and targeted campaigns.
Conference resolves:
i. to continue the campaign to get Prison Education back under the DFE
ii. a targeted political lobbying campaign and involvement of JUPG and JUPA
iii. resource and prison specific training to help branch rebuilding and development
iv. a workload survey and campaign to challenge the increase workload.