Motion
- Motion title
- Anti-casualisation
- Session
- 2018-2019
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 25 May 2019
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 36
- Motion text
Increasing casualisation impacts negatively on lecturing staff, notably their mental health. They are often given the largest and most challenging classes which impacts on workload and stress levels – much work goes unrewarded for example: impromptu meetings with students and staff, CPD, open days, interviews. Many hourly paid staff use holiday periods to complete marking and preparation as well as responding to emails from students and colleagues. Sick pay is inadequate or not paid.
Casualised staff end up in spiralling debt on insecure contracts and their mental health suffers as lack of pay means that monthly financial outgoings cannot be met further exacerbating stress and depression.
Lecturers are pitted against their peers in the vain hope that they will be given a full time or fractional post.
Congress:
1. reiterates its opposition to casualised contracts
2. urges UCU to make the ending of all such contracts a priority.
- Proposing body
- South east regional committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2019/C/05-25/130/36