Motion
- Motion title
- Action to defend HE now
- Session
- 2025-2026
- Meeting link
- HE Conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2026
- Status
- Carried
- Motion
- B27
- Motion text
Sector conference notes:
1. the announcement by the House of Commons Education Select Committee (12 May) that 24 universities are likely to be declared insolvent and close in the next 12 months
2. recent success of Dundee UCU by striking and taking their fight over jobs to the Scottish Parliament
3. the 2% pay offer, below the joint union claim of RPI+3%.Sector conference resolves:
a. to build an urgent political campaign over the HE crisis with a lobby of Parliament as soon as possible and national demonstration in the Autumn
b. to campaign to win an industrial action ballot on jobs by demanding employers commit to no compulsory redundancies (including 'hidden redundancies'), with a campaign starting now, and a long ballot enabling action in Term 1 2026-27
c. to rally the union around this strategy
- Proposing body
- University of Liverpool
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2026/H/05-28/115/B27