Motion
- Motion title
- Women and casualisation
- Session
- 2018-2019
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 25 May 2019
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 41
- Motion text
Congress notes that more women, especially those from intersecting equality strands, are stuck on casualised contracts. It is a significant equal pay issue. It hinders career progression and means they earn less than male comparators in permanent positions. They then cannot get off the lower quartile of pay or precarious employment conditions. This is an equal pay issue that UCU, the government and employers need to confront. Employers will say that equal pay is not problematic because of contract type.
Congress resolves to:
1. encourage UCU funding of a casualised woman's equal pay claim
2. promote to branches and give guidance on equal pay claims in branch campaigns and local management negotiations
3. hold a special NEC meeting, solely on casualised workers, to progress work on this issue within the union
4. promote this issue with the Labour party and other political parties.
- Proposing body
- Anti-casualisation committee (ACC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Recruitment, organising and campaigning committee (ROCC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2019/C/05-25/135/41